Next Leg of the Journey
These are, indeed, unprecedented modern times. And I say "unprecedented modern" because surely in human history were there pandemics that stretched through large swathes of the known world. I suppose it demonstrates how far technology has come that a global virus that afflicts, causes suffering and death, to many around the world is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Vaccines are under development less than a year from when the virus first emerged. And despite the confounding levels of idiocy we have witnessed, from the sheer selfishness and arrogance of "anti-maskers" to the denial of medical facts by those in power across the world, we have also witnessed stunning acts of courage from the medical frontliners to those who keep pushing for justice, fairness, and righteousness. Despair and hope, idiocy and courage, these are everywhere in our time and day. The inauguration of Joe Biden doesn't necessarily mean that despair and idiocy are consigned to the garbag
