No fairness in rules for vaccination

I REGISTERED for the COVID vaccine several weeks ago. I am in the 1B group: I have type 2 diabetes, asthma, factor 5 Leiden (blood clotting gene), high blood pressure, Reynauds, they are watching me for scleroderma — thankfully I have precursors but don’t have scleroderma yet — and I have had pneumonia several times. I am 61. I was extremely sick for five weeks a year ago due to a cold. I am worried about what COVID would do.

My husband was in the ICU for his heart a little over a year ago. Thankfully, after his registering immediately and his making hours of phone calls, the VA has scheduled him for the COVID vaccine ...

We have two adopted young teenage children at home who depend on us. They were quite traumatized before they were brought to our home through CYFD. If anything happened to Bob and me, the kids would have yet another upheaval. The four of us have had to strictly isolate/ quarantine ourselves since March 11. All four of us are at high risk, either health-wise or at risk of more trauma, from this crazy virus.

I have not been called in for the vaccine after more than 10 months of strict isolation. I am hearing of younger healthy people who are getting vaccinated — “so the vaccines will not go to waste” — even though my family has been living on the edge of a cliff for 10 months. I know others who have been extremely isolated in their homes as well, trying to cooperate with community health recommendations and avoid life-threatening illness.

Where is the fairness in vaccination of random folks in order to “prevent waste of the vaccination” or in order to “just get the vaccine out there” ... when families like mine and a multitude of isolated elderly folks are hanging by our toenails here? Are we that expendable?

JEANNE PAHLS Albuquerque