I can’t tell if it’s related in a way relevant to the post, but the lion anecdote definitely reminds me of this description of CA’s vaccine rollout. CA wanted to make sure vaccines were distributed evenly or disproportionately towards disprivileged people. One effort towards this was zipcode restrictions, enforced with ID requirements. Unfortunately ID and proof of address are exactly the kind of things that privilege helps you access. Being poor, moving a lot, working weird hours, lacking legal right to be in the country… all make you less likely to have ID. The article alleges that the (unspoken) plan was to just not enforce those rules against people who looked disprivileged, but not every worker got the memo and lots of people who everyone wanted to have a vaccine were turned away because they didn’t have a bill with their address on it.
I can’t tell if it’s related in a way relevant to the post, but the lion anecdote definitely reminds me of this description of CA’s vaccine rollout. CA wanted to make sure vaccines were distributed evenly or disproportionately towards disprivileged people. One effort towards this was zipcode restrictions, enforced with ID requirements. Unfortunately ID and proof of address are exactly the kind of things that privilege helps you access. Being poor, moving a lot, working weird hours, lacking legal right to be in the country… all make you less likely to have ID. The article alleges that the (unspoken) plan was to just not enforce those rules against people who looked disprivileged, but not every worker got the memo and lots of people who everyone wanted to have a vaccine were turned away because they didn’t have a bill with their address on it.