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Sometimes one cannot make this stuff up. It is hilarious and sad at the same time.

There is a local scholar (in the very loosest sense of the word) who in the midst of a worldwide pandemic (okay, that's redundant) . . . anyway, this scholar would feel much better about the whole thing if those pharmaceutical companies would just take several years to come up with vaccines rather than rush through an emergency process during an emergency. Can you imagine the familial and societal collapse if we waited some magic amount of time? (Please fire rescue folks, don't pour water on my burning house, it might cause some damage and the fire might go out anyway.)

The scholar even has a back-up plan warming up. Blame the illegal immigrants. Blame people who are trying to escape unbearable conditions to give their families some semblance of hope for a better life. What makes them less human than the scholar, I wonder? I suspect they are too brown for scholar's taste. I'm not sure how that addresses the vaccination dilemma faced by the scholar. I won't get the vaccination because there are illegal immigrants. (Remember: scholar in a very loose sense.)

Now we're faced with a variant of the original virus which in some respects is worse than the original. Who is getting infected by the virus? Ninety-five percent or so are those who are unvaccinated, some of whom would rather wait several years just to make sure. There's some irony. For the tombstone: Cautious to the very End. I'm sure someone will mourn. I wish there was a way to trace the collateral damage and inscribe that on the stone.