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Pfizer just announced they estimate the pandemic will last until 2024; on that awful note, Happy Holidays! If they are right, I'm not sure what that means for any of us. I live in one of those red counties with a lousy vaccination rate. It's not the worst in the state, because the prize goes to areas that are much more rural.

The unvaccinated are not a monolith, but the vast majority are likely suffering some kind of disconnect. It probably was true before the pandemic. So statistics and graphs be damned, they weren't listening before and don't expect them to in the next two years.

I have tried to remind people it is a COMBINATION of three things that will lessen the tsunami we are about to receive: masks, distance, and vaccines. Keep your pod close, but your conversations short when you are out and about. It's hard to see the rest of the world in 2 dimensions. It breaks my heart not to be able to smile at a little kid in the store. But, it all seems trivial compared to being sick, damaged, infectious, or dead. I hope to direct all the kindness and appreciation I can to the medical and essential workers.

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