Patrick McKenzie

Tier 1A comes before 1B, comes before 1C, comes before the tier 2, et cetera, et cetera.

So 1A was, descriptively speaking, at the start, and this changed over time on like a day-to-day, week-to-week basis, sometimes in mutually incompatible ways at the same time.

It was an entire mess, but...

Descriptively, tier 1A was, okay, healthcare professionals and a few others and people above the age of 75.

No, wait, we'll change that to 65.

Tier 1B was, we're going to put a few favored occupational groups here and some other folks.

And tier 1C was people who doctors think will probably die if they contract COVID, but who have not appeared in group 1A or 1B yet.

And so who got 1A?

Well, healthcare professionals.

So like doctors administering the vaccine.

That sounds like pretty reasonable.

Also veterinarians, because veterinarians are like urgently required by society at the time.

Not so much because the California Veterinarians Association is good at lobbying.

And that isn't just me alleging that.

They sent a letter out to their membership saying, we are so good at lobbying.

We got you guys into 1A.

Congrats and go get your vaccine now.

I have that on my website.

Okay.

So like tier 1B school teachers were classified as a tier 1B.