@1: I know it's hard, but we simply have to accept the fact that the virus transmits more easily among the faithful singing hymns, among friends having drinks and appetizers in a pub, and while pumping iron than it does among a masked mob in the streets smashing windows and throwing molotov cocktails at the cops.

"Assuming all goes well vaccine-wise, Duchin guessed King County would receive between 130,000 and 150,000 doses, which would probably cover the county's estimated 150,000 health care workers and long-term care staffers, who will likely be first in line to get the jab."

If by doses we mean literal doses, then that would cover 65K to 75K health-care workers, considering that it takes two doses for someone to get fully immunized.

As for the Steve Duchin bashing here--well, there is no more thankless position these days than public health official.

@3 is correct, and we need about 200,000 double doses before we even think of moving to group 1b

Happy belated Birthday!
And yikes! Stay in your homes!

I thought Rudy was Vampire King. Or maybe he’s Vampire Rodeo Clown. Who knows?

"among a masked mob in the streets smashing windows and throwing molotov cocktails at the cops."

This so defines who you are.

400 years of the police publicly lynchings black men (if we include the slave patrol forefathers of our current police) culminating in the recent lynching of George Floyd in 2020, and the thing you find most upsetting is the broke window.

Don't change George Wallace. The police depend on your blind, unquestioning support for their complete lack of public accountability.

@9 above is response to @ 2

Isn't it amazing that life-and-death has become a political issue?

Wear a face mask - democrat.
Don't wear a mask - republican.

Eat at home - democrat.
Eat at a restaurant, sit at the bar, eat inside elbow-to-elbow with strangers, breathe on the "hired help" - republican.

Get a TrumpVirus-19 vaccine shot - because your boss makes you, otherwise you're fired.
Don't get a TrumpVirus-19 shot - either you're a republican anti-vaxxer, or you're a democrat who doesn't trust anything that came out of the Trump administration.

Your kids go back to school - you're a democrat, and you can't afford perennial day-care.
Your kids don't go back - you're a republican, you can afford private tutors, or else you're jetting off ( on your private jet, of course ) to your ski chalet in Switzerland, where you'll be "quarantined" in between ski runs.

Try to stay alive - democrat.
Infect everybody you possibly can - republican.

Were more people testing themselves in anticipation of holiday travel? Why would there be fewer testing facilities as the outbreak grows?

How are we in current eye? I don't understand what's unique. Are we getting those vaccinations first? Outbreaks like that happening in all cities. What am I missing?

the Forest I'm afraid.

Church is for dummies who are worried about the old man in the sky sending them to a lake of fire.

People who participate in protests are intelligent people who want to make the world a better place.

I think they should just turn the churches into dormitories and free abortion clinics.

Looks like yes we are first and getting the one from pfizer which needs very cold storage right? Probably not the one that will be used nation wide then?

Happy Belated Birthday, Rich! Everyone stay healthy and safe!

@8 dvs99: Rudy Guiliani gets my vote for Vampire Rodeo Clown.
See Jeffery Toobin's article, "Beating the Drum: Rudy Guiliani Under the Influence of Trump, The New Yorker Magazine, September 10, 2018 issue, pages 40-49, complete with a perfect illustration by Barry Blitt.

@11 OverTrumping Doofy: STILL mad that your boy, Zombie Cop Loren Culp is reduced to fry boy at the local McDonald's drive thru? Get over it.

@17 Catalina Vel-DuRay: Agreed, seconded, and Amen!

@11: Stop snorting hydroxycholoquine before you lose consciousness, Doofy.

McConnell explodes the myth that vampires are sexy.

"But now how could such a Progressive City
get overwhelmed with a 2nd/3rd wave of the virus ..."

Excellent question, jakkky.

see, along with Common Sense (Progressivism) we have Regressives AND Repressives (Neolibs and Cons) so How COULD we ever have Nice Things? no, the party that favors Punishment over Human Dignity has too much Say in governing. were the Rubes ever to get a Decent Education, we then just Might be able to have Good Things -- but the .01% has convinced peeps (just like you!) it's better to go Cheap than Well so here tf we Are. unnerstando?

@19 jackkay: Here's a Beatles hit for ya, from The White Album:
Show me all your slope-y mountains way down South! Take me to your daddy's farm! Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out! Come and keep your comrades warm!
You're back in the USSR!
Your Der Gropenfuherer just sold you and your equally clueless MAGA pals out TO THE RUSSIANS. You belong to Vladimir Putin now, and North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un is laughing his ass off. Mazeltov, KGB pool boy.

@23 kristofarian for the WIN!