COVID Vaccine? PAH!

Just a few days after Britain, then Canada,  approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for use for their citizens - or subjects, since both Brits and Canadians bow to the Queen of England - the United States recommended it for approval for its citizens, half of whom bow to Donald Trump.  The Food and Drug Administration gave American doctors and clinics emergency authorization to se the vaccine.

The beginning of the end of the pandemic?  Curb your enthusiasm, Sparky.   The number of vaccines we're getting is far to small to make a dent in the COVID outbreaks we're currently experiencing in this country, and it will take several months for everyone to get vaccinated.  That is, assuming everyone will get vaccinated; a large minority, say 40 to 45 percent, of Americans don't trust COVID vaccines.  Which works out fine, since not too many of them will be available anyway.  Some epidemiologists expect that the vaccine won't let us get back to normal until the middle of summer at best, but others are warning us that we'll have to keep staying six feet apart and go into banks looking like we're about to rob them until next December.

And 2022 may not be all that promising, either.

Meanwhile, Congress can't pass a COVID relief bill, which would help millions of people in the verge of being kicked out onto the street, because Senate Majority Leader A. Mitchell McConnell won't let anything pass unless he gets protection against COVID lawsuits for major corporations.  Given the closeness in the polls in the U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia, I doubt that the Democrats will take over the Senate and get anything done.  Bottom line: Just because we're heading into a new year doesn't mean we have to deal with the same old crap.    

On the other hand, the Supreme Court rejected that lawsuit from Texas demanding that the ballots of voters in four swing states that went for Biden be invalidated.  That should be good news.  But Trump and his minions keep fighting the result of the election.