February 18, 2021

Good morning everyone, I hope everyone is feel well this morning. Here in the northeast we are bracing for yet another snow storm. Today is February 18, 2021. This has been some winter and we still have a long way to go before we see the first buds of spring. How I long to see a crocus or a daffodil, but soon.
This week has been a busy one, Valentine’s Day, President’s Day, Fat Tuesday and Ash Wednesday and now the snow. Every couple of months I have to make my rounds to the doctors, some live and some virtual but it is something I must do. My main question for them this time was about the corona vaccine and did I need to get it. All their answers were the same an emphatic yes. I shared some of my fears with them and one said you should be more afraid of COVID-19 than the vaccine , so I relented and made the appointment for February 27. The last doctor I went to on Friday who is also a friend, and I respect immensely, when I asked him the question he said you have not gotten the vaccine yet. With your history you should have been in the first wave of inoculations, it’s unacceptable, he told me to call the county office and explain my situation and I did they gave me a time to call the website if it did not work call back but it did and Marylou and i both went Monday and our second shot is March 15.
Through all my trepidation’s I was in a line to get the vaccine , however that was not the first time in my life I waited to be inoculated. Remember I come from a time as many of you share when certain illness were very dangerous, measles, chicken pox, fear of difigurement, mumps fear of sterilization from the fevers, diphtheria , meningitis these were all fears we lived with as children but the most dreaded of all was polio. When a vaccine for this was found the world rejoiced. So as I waited in line Monday I thought to myself vaccines have iradicated just about all of the diseases and thanked god for giving us the men and women who created these blessed things.
I understand the younger generations parental concerns about vaccinations, as a young parent I also felt the same way but I realized the need for children to be immunized because I had seen first had what these diseases were like and the damage and pain and suffering they caused. But today everyone makes their own choices, we have made our workld like that so it is their right to choose I guess. Today I have posted some pictures of Sabin Sunday and others people my age might remember and younger people might see what the world was like, remember they are on Reflections of life blog at WordPress. Check it out.
Again be careful today, find something good to do. Til Tomorrow!