I would love for a vaccine to be available much earlier than most experts believe but I have my doubts. Still, a history shows that some breakthroughs come suddenly, almost by accident, and we need to start preparing now in case such a breakthrough happens. That involves figuring out how those vaccines are delivered. I am from Colorado where polio was far more prevalent than in other parts of the country. I visited friends in iron lungs, our movie theaters had seats removed to accommodate wheel chairs. My mother had me vaccinated on first day Salk vaccine was available in my town. That meant I could sit back months later and watch hundreds of my classmates line up at school for mass vaccinations. The Oxford vaccine may not be the answer but the process of delivering the vaccine starts now. The U.S. completely blew response to virus. We have one third of the world’s confirmed cases and more than one fourth of fatalities with only four percent of the world population. Our ineptness in fighting this pandemic is criminal. We need to be prepared for a possible vaccine. Until that happens, it is moronic to reduce the shutdown. This is WWIII. We need to treat it as such.
