With COVID-19 vaccinations climbing in Kitsap while cases are on the rise again and the identification of a virus variant looms, Dr. Gib Morrow turned to a pair of sporty metaphors.
Going through a slide deck at Tuesday's Kitsap Public Health District board meeting, the district's health officer came to a slide with a syringe and a coronavirus globe superimposed on the heads of a tortoise and a hare.
“The race is on,” Morrow told local elected officials, “and we need to put the hammer down.”
Then later: “If presumably we’re in the fourth quarter and the goal line’s in sight and we can start celebrating at some point in the not-too-distant future, now is not the time to do anything that increases the likelihood of transmitting this virus,” he said.