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Likewise, in December, the Stanford University Medical Center Hospital in California published a vaccine schedule that placed senior doctors and staff who don’t provide “direct care and service to patients” ahead of frontline medical staff.

A similar episode was reported with a Red Cross manager in Hamburg. For instance, in Germany, the head of a trust that manages three hospitals in the country’s northwest was forced to apologise after he had received two doses of the vaccine well before the doctors and nurses at the three facilities. This trend has also been observed among high-ranking medical officials who aren’t considered frontline staff. That these scandals have implicated officials at all levels of the government and the military-including but not limited to presidents, cabinet ministers, senators, small-town mayors, city officials, and army generals-indicates that this self-serving mindset is not anecdotal but in fact systemic among those in the upper echelons of power. In several of these cases, the vaccines were administered before frontline and medical workers or the elderly had received their shots. In Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Spain, Germany, Poland, Malaysia, Indonesia, Uganda, and Lebanon, government and military officials have been forced into resignation after it emerged that they were leading secret inoculation campaigns, with many of them securing shots for their families and friends. However, this unethical behaviour has also manifested itself at a micro and individual level wherein, across the globe, the rich have made repeated efforts to skip the line rather than wait their turn, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, age, or sex. On a macro level, it has been well documented that this has led to rich, powerful, and more often than not Western countries hoarding vaccines at the expense of poorer, developing countries. This greed has been apparent during the ongoing pandemic, during which the wealthy and powerful have abused or at the very least attempted to abuse their disproportionate influence to skip the vaccine queue. Attributing this heightened probability to a “more favourable attitude toward greed”, the researchers argue that this manifests itself in the form of driving-related offences, stealing high-value goods, cheating to “increase their chances of winning a prize”, and endorsing “unethical behaviour at work”.

Looking at the link between social class and ethics, a 2012 study by University of California, Berkeley psychologists and sociologists found that upper-class individuals were more likely to indulge in “unethical behaviour” than their lower-class individuals.