Agreed. It’s definitely on our mind with our county’s dumpster fire. Like others, I really though we’d be well above 80% of adults by now, with a whole lot more adolescents also vaccinated. This really should be behind us, at least from a hospitalization/public health standpoint.
Alas, it isn’t, and if my protection from previous doses is waning that puts my unvaccinated 11 year old at risk from his dad again.
The Moderna data delay is equally stressing my wife. She’s an asthmatic with a history of pneumonia during a particularly bad flu infection. I know she and her PCP have been in talks about whether she should wait it out for 1/2 dose booster data or just go ahead and get the 3rd full dose. The current wave and local conditions definitely weigh on the decision.
All this to say that each person “jumping the line” or “gaming the system” has some personal reason to do so, and if walk-ins are widely available there probably isn’t much harm beyond invalid paperwork that will need to be sorted out with employers or travel companies. 1M people now have received an extra dose, and we don’t have any alarming safety concerns around them, AFAIK.