“For those who cater to the one percent, the surprise hasn’t been the sensationalist stories of cheaters and line cutters but how difficult it has been for most people to buy their way to the front. ‘The process has been both extremely democratic and extremely bungled,’ someone who works at a high-end medical concierge service told me. ‘It’s actually one of the rare instances when the rich can’t cut the line. And they can always cut the line.'”
“Many of the well-connected people I spoke to expressed surprise over how little they had heard about vaccine loopholes or black markets. I spoke to one tech CEO who said that, while he had heard ‘rumors’ of a group of people in the Hamptons who have a doctor on call giving them the vaccine, nobody in his circles has been able to access it. ‘I know all the people in my sort of social circle out there, and I definitely haven’t heard anyone say ‘Hey, wanna get in on this thing? We’re all doing it.’’ Another person with ties high up in the tech and entertainment worlds says it hasn’t filtered into his crowd, either. ‘Honestly, I’m quite surprised that it hasn’t percolated into our sphere yet,” he says. ‘It’s such a black market that, even for the rich, it’s hard to access'” – NY Magazine.