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My column today is a collection of observations that are based in part on the social isolation we’ve all felt for last 22 months. We always knew pandemics were a possibility, especially after the H1N1 scare in 2009, but our earlier national preparedness had lapsed into a broken stockpile and a rusty supply chain.

"If we do not believe that something positive and larger than ourselves can be created from the deaths and destruction of 9/11, then we have only anger, pain, or bitterness to sustain us in our recollections of that day." -- September 12, 2011

As we come up for air and look around, it is clear that the COVID-19 pandemic is not nearly over. Just yesterday the president pledged a half a billion doses to marginalized countries, matched by other members of the G7, as new variants of the virus appear.  

Things are looking up. I marvel that, exactly one year and three days after I last taught students in a university classroom, I will receive my first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Over 90 million people have now received at least one dose, and the full powers of the government have been deployed to broaden and hasten the logistics around delivery. As I write, there are three different vaccines available which have significantly ramped production capacities in the last month or so.