Vaccinating, Finally

 THE THOUGHT came to me early that what with super fast computers with huge storage capacity and several millennia of practice producing vaccines, an effective vaccine for Covid 19 should not take long to develop. Quite by chance, I was correct. the vaccine concept was known to the ancient Egyptians, and in American colonial times, Benjamin Franklin administered a small pox vaccine to himself, and encouraged it be given to everyone. When I was a toddler the polio epidemic was rampant, and when Dr. Salk developed an effective vaccine, he became suicidal when some idiot pharmaceutical firm mistakenly used a live virus, and something like twenty thousand people contracted polio after taking the cure. I signed up early for Covid relief, just as soon as sixty five year olds were declared eligible in my state. Then I waited, and waited. My pharmacy said they would call me, but never did. I filled out the email they sent, they responded saying they would call, and I waited. then i called them, they once again said they would call, that there had been a delay in receiving the vaccine doses and they were trying to catch up. then instead they sent me another email blank form, so i called again. The form must be completed, they said. I refused to hang up the phone until they filled out the form for me , which they did. Finally, I had an appointment. Sixty five percent of Americans over the age of sixty five have already been vaccinated, but finally I have an appointment. In less than a week I will get my first shot, then, I assume, three weeks later, my second. after that, I will begin to leave my house for short intervals, and find a new pharmacy. forty percent of Republicans still say they will not get vaccinated. This I find  horrifying. I been been given to believe that anti-vaxxing was a liberal phenomenon, but apparently is merely another kind of right wing disinformation conspiracy theory nonsense. Will the damage being done to this country by the political right wing never cease? the thoughts occurred to me that if everyone would get a vaccination for the flu every year, then eventually the flue virus would become extinct like small pox. or like malaria had nearly become until people stopped vaccinating for it. We now know that the world is full of corona viruses, and that therefore it is inevitable that one after another will infect humans, and that pandemics will become the norm unless vaccines and vaccinations programs are created immediately and effectively. The more natural habitat humanity destroys, the more viruses invade human space, seeking survival. The ultimate destruction of human life might be brought about by micro organisms, which possess far greater powers of of endurance than we.