Heartless Compassion
It took a lot longer than I anticipated, but my musings about COVID19 and how it affects people and populations in a setting like ours are no longer speculative. After "appearing" to miss the pandemic, our island nation in the Pacific has caught up lately. After smoldering case numbers, there has been a recent exponential growth in infections, cases and deaths. Because we were so late to the party, multiple vaccines are already available that are both safe and effective at reducing cases and practically eliminating severe disease or death. There's just one problem: We can't get any. As case numbers skyrocketed, a more wealthy neighbor brought in a few thousand doses. These were reserved for the capitol city where most of the deaths have been recorded (with an unquantified "batch" set aside for a mining company which threatened to suspend its operations if they didn't get any - simultaneously pointing out how much money they brought into the country)....