COVID-19 Lockdown, Day 272

 The Pfizer vaccine was released on Monday, but only hospital workers and first responders are getting it first. This is understandable since they are the ones taking the most risks. It is being said that the rest of us, excluding those with serious health problems, will not get the vaccine for another few months. Also this week, a second vaccine, Moderna, was approved and will be available soon. When they become available for me to use, I will take Pfizer or Moderna. Astra Zeneca's vaccine is still only 70% effective, but I doubt that I would use it anyway--especially with the allegations that they use cell lines of aborted babies for these vaccines. I don't know how true it is, but I would not put it past them. With whatever is approved, however, this issue might be moot. 


There is something I have been seriously thinking about. I think that March 13rd, the day President Trump declared a national emergency because of COVID-19, should be declared a national holiday. After all, close to 3,000 died on 9/11, and we have a holiday to commemorate. The pandemic claimed 100 times that, with 300,000 lives, as well as millions of jobs and businesses. Hopefully, in time, we will look back on this and learn something.  I plan to start a petition to recommend this.  Who would sign this petition?


Finally, I have decided to continue this blog until either vaccine becomes available to private citizens. I might thereafter follow the advice of a few and start another blog with a different cause, though I am oblivious as to what that cause may be. Ideas?


--Signing off. 


PS: Merry Christmas, Joyful Festivus, and Happy New Year!

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