Future Perfect
“In the last couple of decades, research on fish pain has expanded, and it’s become understood that fish have nociceptors, sensory neurons that respond to damaging or threatening stimuli. The late Victoria Braithwaite, one of those University of Edinburgh researchers, told Hakai magazine that fish pain is “likely different from what humans feel, but it is still a kind of pain.”” (Kenny Torella, Spark | the Next Frontier for Animal Welfare: Fish)
“In the US, things are a bit more complicated. Some people have taken to waiting outside clinics and pharmacies to get leftovers, like my Israeli friends. But some vials end up wasted, dumped in the trash because a clinic had extras and no arms to put them in. Some clinics have even been threatened with sanctions if they deviate from the priority list
To my mind, that last outcome is a tragedy. But a recent Data for Progress poll, highlighted by Matt Yglesias at Slow Boring, shows many Americans don’t feel the same. The poll found that 52 percent of Americans agree that “it’s better to ensure people in higher-risk groups are vaccinated first than it is to allow some people to cut in line, even if it means some doses of the vaccine will expire.” (Thirty-eight percent said the opposite, that it’s better for some people to cut in line than for doses to expire.)” (app.sparkmailapp.com, Spark | the Price of Fairness)