By SJ Otto
Tomorrow is the last day of the year 2020. That number sounded like something special when it began last January. But it has been a year full of dread.
Early in the year we heard in the news how the coronavirus
spread all across
At first it was
It still seemed remote to me because I live in
Not long ago I went to my brother, John’s favorite bar, Judy’s. The people there were not wearing masks. There was no social distance. There were no protections at all. Both my brother and I found the same thing at a local bar I like, Dudley’s. We are both concerned and worried about catching that virus. My brother is seven years younger than me. But that doesn’t make him real young. I am 65 and have diabetes. If I get the virus, it doesn’t look good. On top of our ages are the grim reports that people much younger than us have died from Coronavirus. For example Rep.-elect Luke Letlow (R-La.) has died from the coronavirus. He was 41.
As the year comes to an end we have a lot of hope ahead of us. There is the vaccine. However there are some right-wing nut jobs that are spreading fear of taking the vaccine and they are denying that the virus is a real threat. They have denounced the Coronavirus as a hoax. Unlike the nuts, my brothers and other members of my family plan to get and take the vaccine when it is offered to us. For the next few months we will all continue to wear masks when we go into stores or businesses. I’m hoping that by summer we can start to return to normal. Maybe this time next year the pandemic will be over. Maybe the masks will be gone. It is hard to tell. Will we ever get back to the way it was before? Who knows? I have never in my life seen an epidemic or pandemic as bad as the Coronavirus. I have heard about all these different epidemics, such as the Spanish flue epidemic, from around the beginning of the 20th Century. It lasting from February 1918 to April 1920, it infected 500 million people – about a third of the world's population at the time.
We are living in strange times. But 2021 holds out hope that things will be different.
Pix by How
to Use Masks during the Coronavirus Pandemic - Scientific American &
Spanish Flu- Wikipedia.
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