The Vaccine

The Good News is that it looks like we will have at least one vaccine by the end of January, if not sooner. Two uncertainties remain:

Who gets the vaccine first?

How effective will it really be?

The answer to the first question is, of course, me.  I should get the vaccine first.  OK, OK, medical personnel and first responders should go first, but honestly, teachers over 50 should be pretty high on the list. If you're going to jam me in there with a bunch of teenagers who won't mask, I would like some protection please.

We know everyone won't take the vaccine which will limit its effectiveness. Even an "effective" vaccine might not wipe out Covid the way polio or smallpox was wiped out.  Honestly at this point, just give me better odds of not getting too sick, and I'll be thrilled.

The secondary stressor of this pandemic is the extraordinary uncertainty that clouds everything.  It seems natural that the vaccine would fall into that uncertainty window, too.