Vaccines (snarky)

Far too much is being written about them already, albeit with good reason.  I think the gist of the story can be quite short:

When that one great Scorer comes to mark against your name

It matters not who won or lost, but how you place the blame.

(Emphasis added.)  One of my favourite authors articulated another aspect of the problem very well, and I hope his literary estate will not object to this quote:

The people at the top only get there by doing what the people at the bottom want them to do.  Which is nothing, because the people at the bottom don't know what they want.

From a different author: 

"As a securely dominant species, you could afford to lose touch with reality ..."

and the aliens are talking, not about religion, but about democracy.  We WEIRD people have indeed lost touch.

Do I have anything to say in my own voice, then?  Yes.  It's not surprising that Israel has done such an impressive job of jabbing most of the population.  Israeli institutions are used to dangerous situations where results count and excuses don't.   It is surprising that the UK, especially with Boris in charge, has succeeded as well as it has -- today I hear that over half the population (or the adult population?) has had its first jab.  And as for the USA, there are much worse places I could be.