Covid-19 Vaccine Progress, Herd Immunity, Parents, Hope, Motherhood etc.
By: Amina Rashid
Tags: Life, Motherhood, Gratitude, Stream Of Consciousness, God

Evidence-based read. Regardless, some quotes worth paying attention to:

1.Herd immunity might not be reached until 2022 or beyond.

2. The pandemic’s end is more certain, and may be a little nearer

3. The positive readouts from the vaccine trials mean that the United States will most likely reach an epidemiological end to the pandemic (herd immunity) in Q3 or Q4 2021.

4. Their COVID-19 vaccine candidates are showing efficacy rates that are higher than many dared hope for.

5. Two promising candidates are better than one, but supplies will undoubtedly be constrained in the months following EUA and approval.

6. Timelines to reach the desired coverage threshold will be affected by health systems’ abilities to adapt to changing needs and updated information.

I loved reading the following article. It discussed almost everything that needs to be discussed in regards to our progression in a pandemic-ridden world. The hope, hope, dip and then crush at the end was cute to witness. Crush in the end = The article claiming increased chances of herd immunity taking place in the second half of 2021 in the US, but there still being the “might not reach herd community until 2022”. Now that I write that out though. I guess it makes sense, no? The US could very well nail herd community in 2021, but the rest of the world’ll still remain and it all comes back to us highly intelligent yet limited and feeble-minded humans, trying our level best to predict how the future may pan out, but still being utterly clueless of what may come to pass. I choose to hold out hope though. We’ve gotten through ’20 okay enough, no? We get through whatever the future holds for us well enough as well. Not to worry ’cause worrying is simply living a tragedy twice over. Once before it occurs and then again, when and if it actually does. And if it doesn’t, then we’d have psychologically lived through it in vain. I want to share a cute bit of information though. My 9 year old walked up to the dining table at breakfast the other day, and so flippantly exclaimed that the pandemic’s going to be over by Dec 14 and we can plan our family road trip to a neighboring country for right after, and that’s when I got interested in checking up on COVID-19 related hopeful data once more. This morning again, I overheard them discussing how the pandemic’ll be over soon enough, and if nothing else, they sure are teaching me to be truly more optimistic than I’ve been in a long time. Kids are magical, I tell you, and even more so when they’re not your own ’cause then you can choose when to be around and take care of them and when to step back. I swear, I go around appreciating moms around me for choosing to become and being moms all the time ’cause I’ve come to understand clearly that it’s SUCH AN EXHAUSTING FEAT. Being around, taking care of, keeping kids from killing one another in fights, listening to them, regulating their mood swings, understanding and working w/ their individual quirks, the every day feeding, cleaning, tending etc. That shit is exhausting. And so much more when there are no days off. Like, have you thought about that, people? I don’t know about you, but I completely isolate and go to sleep for hours on end in a locked room whenever I fall ill. Moms don’t have that luxury, and that is the day I realized how honestly huge-hearted an entity every single one of them is. Now, of course, there are exceptions as there are in every single demographic out there and it’d be super naive of me to conflate all moms as the same. Ain’t no one doing that. However, I am saying that we ought to take time out from our busy lives for our mothers, care-takers, guardians to appreciate all they’ve done for us to get where we are today, and yes, it may very have been conditional (on there expectations of us being met), but tell me one service, feeling or kind sentiment in this world that isn’t. I’m like, there’s this lyric in some Hindi song that goes something like, “I see God in you.” Well, I always used to think it’s blasphemous, but today? I think it makes perfect sense. Maybe not in the context of that movie, but it is certainly possible to see God in the workings of His creation, and I totally see God’s Godness in all the things the parents around me toil day and night to do for their kids whom they love to death. And if parents, despite their perfectly human, conditional love for their kids do all the magnificently divine acts they do, then I can’t even begin to fathom all that God’s done and is doing for me. How then can I not be okay w/ everything around me today? And yes, okay = being grateful or at least, bringing myself back to that centre of stillness. How then can I not be grateful to God by being grateful to the creation He’s expressed Himself though to me and all those who stop to think and see? How can I then think my life is my own to do whatever I want to do w/ it? Regardless of however my choices may affect aforementioned creation of the God I completely owe my entire existence to. How can I then NOT surrender to His will, hmm? P.S. Keep in mind that the above is just a stream of consciousness draft. Written out more for myself than anyone else, so kindly refrain from going bonkers if you disagree or are made to feel to feel uncomfortable by anything you’ve managed to successfully read AND understand. Not looking for any kind of response, so just remember, if you don’t have anything good to say, stay shut. Oh and pardon the grammatical errors, please, I’ll correct them when I get the time and space in my day. Thanks a ton for reading.

Amina out.