Broken Hearts

     This pandemic will end. It may take another seven to ten months but, God willing, it will finally pass. That is:

  – if the unvaccinated get vaccinated and stop providing any variant with a fresh breeding ground in which to grow and mutate thus allowing reinfections. 

  -if the pharmaceutical companies develop vaccines for children and then parents allow vaccination for their vulnerable children. 

  -and if those who are already vaccinated get the booster shot. 

I know… a lot of IFs.

     Those who have been unfortunate enough to have gotten COVID and recover will heal. People will gather again, have weddings, baby showers, graduations and birthday parties. We’ll go to bars and movies and plays and concerts. We’ll cheer the school sports teams and professional ones. We’ll take vacations. We’ll go shopping in real brick and mortar stores. We’ll rediscover life after a worldwide pandemic.

     But how will we heal all the broken hearts? Hearts broken when family and friends got very sick. Hearts crushed by family and friends who died, over 700,000+ and counting just since January of 2020. The fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, grandmothers and grandfathers, aunts and uncles and cousins who won’t be at any more family gatherings or weddings or baby showers or births or christenings or high school graduations or parties for any occasion.

     Hearts broken by divisions caused because of mask mandates, refusal to vaccinate, lack of consideration for family and friends. How will hearts heal and how long will it take? Or will they heal? Is it yet a further price to pay on top of everything else?