The world was upended during 2020 by Covid-19. As we struggled with the pandemic, much of life as we knew it ground to a halt. We watched case numbers, anguished over severe cases, and waited for a vaccine. We started talking about the potential for a vaccine as early as March, giving us what turned out to be more than eight months of lead time to be ready for the rollout once we had vaccines approved.
Vaccines finally arrived in December, and the rapid distribution that could save lives, more or less, did not happen. And we all fretted again and wrung our hands in frustration. But have we been upset enough that a vaccine rollout that we knew was going to be needed, and we knew would be happening soon enough, has essentially been sub-par at best, botched at worst? Has there been enough vaccine activism to try to fix this?
We suggest that this has not upset us as much as it should have, and we have not seen outraged calls for fixing the problems, for a number of reasons.
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