COVID
Hello again. This is a tough one for me. Given that we are still very much in the midst of COVID, and really at it's peak if you look at the numbers (21.1 million cases in the US with 357,000 deaths and 86.6 million world-wide with 1.87 MILLION deaths), taking an optimistic look feels like I am lessening the horror of the situation. Especially here in the US, where I look out the window at packed bars with no masks while a few blocks down the road people are dying in the hospital. But, nonetheless, here is my attempt at an optimistic view. Clearly, the best part of the pandemic is its end. And we now have light at the end of the tunnel, thanks to the vaccines produced by the various pharmaceutical companies (Pfizer, Moderna and others). While we still have challenging months ahead, we will eventually have the ability to immunize the majority of the population, or at least give them the choice to get a vaccine. But it's even better than that. I am certainly not an immu...