Yay! 2020 is finally over, and we've made it to 2021. The first thing I want to say is that I hope that one ailing reader of this blog is still able to read it. If anything happens to this reader, I hope that the spouse will drop me a line to let me know about things.
Last year was a very strange year. I've written about the dispute with my ex. But I have avoided mentioning that we've occasionally exchanged emails with each other. My Facebook page has nothing worthwhile for her to read, and a mutual friend of ours would say that I have said nothing that references the ex there. What I'll never tell her is that there will always be a part of me that will care for her, as both of us have likely put way too much between us to erase much of the pain from 2020.
Some of the strangeness of 2020 has to do with politics. We've seen a president virtually go crazy, and no one from his cabinet or his political party bother to do anything about it. We've been very lucky to see our election system hold, and that we will have a transfer of power on January 20th. Since I'm writing this a little before Christmas, none of us have any idea whether our current president will be present at our new president's inauguration. Will he be absent because he's to embarrassed to be present at an event that shows he's a loser? Will he be absent because the inauguration will be both quiet and private because of the pandemic? If I were the incoming president, I wouldn't bother with the usual pomp and circumstance, and would choose a private ceremony - to avoid creating a super spreader event.
I find it amazing how quickly "Big Pharma" developed vaccines for Covid-19. And it's just in time. America has gotten "pandemic tired" and needs to return to "normalcy". Last spring, none of us would even think of taking planes to see family on the other side of the country. Today, Thanksgiving and Christmas have both become a sort of super spreader event. I don't know how much longer we can take of not living "normal" lives. And I think many people will be emotionally scarred due to life changes necessitated by the pandemic.
2021 will bring a lot of changes with it. And I look forward to most of them. Hopefully, all of our lives will be a bit better this year....
