A day of both mourning and hope in the US; the death toll from COVID-19 passes 300,000, and the first vaccinations are given.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/14/world/covid-19-coronavirus#america-begins-its-most-ambitious-vaccination-campaign

Here in Brazil we still don't know when the vaccination will start.

To be honest, we don't even know which vaccine will be available, since lots of people here are fighting over trusting them or not.

Its currently 311k (dead to covid19) on worldometers.info.
17,1m infected (10m recovered) in the USA.

Hopefully a few months from now, millions of americans have gotten the vaccine and things get better.

Same here in Denmark.

17 vaccines are now in Phase 3, the final stage of human trials.

One of the advantages of having so many different ones is that some will work better than others and we can use that to narrow down the best approach to take for improved second generation vaccines.

Another is that it's also impossible for any one vaccine maker to cover the needs of the whole world, plus having many prevents any one company having a monopoly on such an important asset.

It looks like we're moving to red alert status tomorrow. They held it off to close everything down over Christmas, no gatherings allowed. Schools will be closed for 4 weeks with the idea that the first 2 weeks of Januari will be online learning for all. That's going to be a mess, the current online schooling is still not running smoothly. My oldests' teacher left so he just got a new teacher while my youngests' teacher is still switching programs and methods to assign and retrieve work. According to my wife, his teacher spend 2 hours yelling at the kids again today for not doing the work, which nobody can figure out where to find, Brightsuck, Microsoft Solos, NoNote or other.

Local records as well, 96 new cases in the past week in my county and today over 2,000 new cases province wide. The vaccine rollout has begun, but it will take a while before it can curb the current rate of spread.

Here in chile they say people will start getting the vaccine by Christmas, we were advancing to opening up but fearing a second wave they started locking us a bit more recently

Which of all those vaccines is the one with the Bill Gates mind control chip in it?

I' m not even getting exited with vaccines anymore, it reading more and more articles about how vaccination wont get rid of social distancing and masks and the miserable life we are living right now. I wonder what it will be necessary for politicians to define it is time to go back to normal life. When there is no more deaths? How many would be the threshold? zero? what about contamination? It just sucks to know that my son will be born in three months and probably not even my parents will be able to see him unless I break the law.

Have faith.
Poliovirus used to infect 350,000-400,000 every year (that they know about), and children would suffer nerve damage and paralaysis (and some die to it). Now its down to like 20-30 cases pr year, and mainly happends in like 2 countries in the world (where they didnt vaccinate).

Polio was for most people just "mild symptoms", and influenze like... but occasionally a adult with it, would pass it onto children.
Who would get much worse outcomes.

So again, another virus, that was hard to detect, and most wheren't aware they had, and they would unknowingly go around infecting others.
And the ones to suffer would be the kids, that ended up getting it.

Vaccines beat it.
Theres like 99.9% less polio in the world today, than just 50years ago.