If the Titanic disaster were to happen today, women and children would surely be elbowed off the lifeboats by Wall Street bankers:

New York City health officials scrambled to explain themselves on Thursday following outraged media reports about bankers who got scarce H1N1 flu vaccines through their employers.

Members of Congress fired off letters demanding immediate explanations and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reminded state and city health officers of the need to make sure the most vulnerable people get shots first.
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The shortage of H1N1 vaccines has frayed nerves, and public health departments across the country say they will not be able to meet the bulk of the demand until December or January.

But, hey, it makes perfect sense in the time of Obama (and Larry Summers and Tim Geithner), for bankers to come first. Before children, and pregnant women, and those with respiratory illnesses like asthma.

Because bankers are just more equal then others, corporate recipients of the vaccine included Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. The Federal Reserve Bank, too.

And don’t let anyone tell you this is wrong, either. How else are the fittest going to survive if the vaccines all go to the weak and the infirm? You do want them to go on teaching evolution in our schools, don’t you?