Ten Months into the Pandemic

 Ten months into the pandemic and people are rounding up to "it has almost been a year." If only there was a true end in sight.

One month into vaccination distribution and 0.4% of New Jerseyans have been vaccinated. At that rate, it will take 199 more months for everyone to be vaccinated. Even if we say only 70% want the vaccine, that is still 139 more months -- well over 10 years. 

Yes, J&J's one dose vaccine is expected to be approved by the end of this month, so the process should speed up somewhat. To all those saying they won't take the vaccine, I say sit down and stay out of the way of those wanting it.

As for "normal" life. It seems most people around here wear masks, yet the numbers keep climbing. A friend who always wears a mask and had no symptoms went for a test because a co-worker tested positive. Yup, she was positive. Her husband, though, was negative. It is such and annoyingly frustrating disease as you carry the disease that makes someone else very ill, but you feel fine. If you test negative today, you might still have the disease. 

Great. Ugh.

Day to day life is in a strange place. We can't move forward with returning to theater and sporting events until we control the disease, but there is no leadership guiding us on a national level as to how to control the diseaase.

Thankfully the inauguration of Joe Biden is less than four days away. He has plans. It won't solve everything, but hopefully we can start to have a united plan for distributing vaccines, and a united plan for moving forward. Joe is being handed (handed might prove to be too gentle of a word) a country that is far different from the one he served only four years ago. I hope he is up for the challenge. I am encouraged that he is creating a strong team behind him, and that Georgia swung Blue giving him a small lead in both the House and Senate. He'll need that edge.

Meanwhile we wait for the next Trumpian shoe to drop.