A year ago I had high hopes that by this time the virus would be in our rear view mirror. I thought the vaccine would solve all of our problems. I couldn't wait to be free from the fear and uncertainty of the pandemic. It seemed like a dream that there might be a vaccine so quickly. I had already lost a couple of friends by this time last year. A few family members and people I knew well had gotten very very sick, but survived.
But, even though vaccines are readily available, and I myself have been jabbed three times it seems that we are far from being out of the woods. Today a father of a friend of my son in being buried. He was an anti-vaccine person. I am not sure whether it was all vaccines or just this one. I understand that most of the family has not been vaccinated. Some have already survived the virus. This man was a little younger than I am. He died in the hospital after weeks on a respirator. It was not a good way to go.
It is so sad. It is so so sad. I hate to hear about a preventable death like that. My friends who died before there was a vaccine didn't get to choose. They got sick and died. I hope that the family chooses to now get the vaccine. It wish that more people would choose life over miserable uncertain death or illness.
What a shame that only about half of our country has gotten the vaccine. What a shame that more people will die needlessly.
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