Time to become the vaccination nation

Added note to this blog post - June 23, 2021. I am now fully vaccinated - Pfizer. Great to see The Tennessean report on first lady Jill Biden visiting Nashville and appearing with Brad Paisley this week.

And plenty of folks have found excuses not to take the COVID-19 vaccines. But how many times have we heard that we cannot get back to normal without a vaccine? That we do not have a vaccine for this monstrous virus? Many. But the bottom line is that now we do. The time to depend on government aid is over. The time to move back toward normal is here.

In December, we first learned of years-old technology that, until now, has not been used. But thanks to Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and others, it is now being put to very good use. The remedy is here. On Saturday, about 10,000 folks were vaccinated at Nissan Stadium in Nashville. Whether you have received one dose or two, immunity is being injected. Sooner or later, it all amounts to herd immunity. And the end of COVID-19 as we know it. And the smart money says that it needs to happen sooner rather than later.

At first, we retreated to our homes and put "stay at home" orders into place. Then we attempted all sorts of safety guidelines to get back to life as we know it. The summer had its struggles. Nashville's service industry staged two rallies on the public square to get their livelihoods rolling again when bars closed in July.

From my end, I never thought that folks would stop trying to have sex and stop drinking during the pandemic. I certainly understand caution. But some things about our lives are hard wired into us. The desire for fun and reproduction are two of those things. I said from the beginning that they would continue. No matter what.

So am I vaccinated? Not yet. But I will make it happen as soon as it is practical to do so. From what I am reading, I am not yet eligible. But once I am and once I can register in my home county of Davidson without jamming up a website with 10,000 hits at once, it will happen.

And I hope it happens for you soon, as well.

James A. Rose

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