> It's not only about minimizing total infections. If it were, priority would be given based on social sphere sizes, eg priests and postmen before old people.

> It's not only about minimizing total infections. If it were, priority would be given based on social sphere sizes, eg priests and postmen before old people. Exactly how it is rolled out here in Moscow. It has never occurred to me that it's not the one and obvious way. But yes, the "Sputnik" vaccine has huge problems with giving people something they can believe in. Rolling it out in a "rational" order, as if they actually believe it works, is probably the most city government can do to raise confidence.