I have many observations about this announcement. I will try to summarize the less emotional ones.

1) Knox Co. Health Dept. is doing what they can with what they have to work with.

2) What they have to work with is severely constrained by our dumbass federal, state, and local governments.

3) Vaccine production is understandably limited as they are trying to ramp up manufacturing, storage, and distribution logistics, which further complicate the matter.

4) Point number 3 is further exacerbated by point 2.

5) By announcing a state and local politically controlled vaccine event for which a broad swath of the population qualifies, when they only have 500 doses, sets up a mad rush, long lines, major disappointment, general chaos, and false expectations.

6) And what about the required second dose, and expiration dates, storage constraints, and hoarding by our dumbass governor?

This is a cluster f**k. Hopefully it will get better. Maybe sometime in May or June.

In the mean time, socially distance, wear a mask. That's all you can do.

Wonder why they can't do it by appointment?

Is this restricted to Knox County residents?

The estimated wait time was over 2 hours, according to Chattanooga police.

Demand for COVID-19 vaccine backs up traffic in Chattanooga for miles

Seems like a fairgrounds would be a possible place to give vaccine. Parking, space, big buildings, restrooms

Or Thompson Boling, or Civic Coliseum

Florida's decision to vaccinate seniors first causes distribution 'chaos'

In Arizona, a shortage of public health staffers is slowing the vaccine rollout

Just off Skype call to Israel. My friend just got vaccinated. He said 25% of the country (over age 60) has already been vaccinated.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla lit the Hanukkah candles at a virtual ceremony organized by the Israeli embassy in Washington on Wednesday evening, just days after his pharmaceutical corporation received the final go-ahead to distribute its coronavirus vaccine across the US.

Introducing Bourla, Ambassador Ron Dermer pointed out that the business executive is also the son of Holocaust survivors, as his parents were among the few Jews from Thessaloniki, Greece to survive the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis.

UPDATE: "Israel will pause its world-leading coronavirus vaccination drive for three weeks in January, the health minister said on Thursday, following local media reports that the Pfizer vaccine would run out within 10 days at the current rate."

This is starting to remind me of the summer we participated in Junior AAU track.

There are a ton of logistical problems, but in today's world, these problems are dealt with in a timely manner. The private sector can be directed to prioritize this function. A nation or county for that matter, just needs leadership to provide direction.

We're clearly racing against a faster opponent, the spread. And the folks most likely to get the vaccine early, probably aren't out and about engaging in high risk behavior. We'll be getting a lot of people vaccinated, and getting most of the groundwork done, but you're vaccinating people that are at risk of catching the disease, rather than those who are spreading. Without wholesale changes in mitigating behavior, our immediate goal of lowering our six week death count will go nowhere. Our demographics suggest to me that we could maintain a seventy-five person per week mortality toll for several weeks before saturation.

I like to hope that there are more of us committed to lowering the death toll than there are those that would increase it for political advantage. It's going to be bad. We can only control the first day it's going to start getting better now. And that's at least six weeks away.

Over time, many who are vaccinated will still get infected with the novel coronavirus.

Yes, you can still get infected with Covid-19 after being vaccinated. Here's why