Getting the vaccine will be our civic duty — whenever that may be

The vaccine that will save us already promises to complicate our lives in countless unfathomable ways.

With tens of millions fewer doses available than needed, at least for starters, the notion of a vaccine lottery intrudes upon happier thoughts. Who gets a vaccine? Who doesn’t? Who decides? Who do governments deem is more or less deserving of the supposed preventive, at least at the start?