January 7

Another cold morning but it looks like it will start out sunny. The forecast I looked at earlier predicts we won't get out of the teens.

From the stories on tv (when they aren't covering the memorial yesterday of the insurrection--which I didn't watch) a major story asks how we begin to "live with" coronavirus. This piece from the New York Times which I found yesterday covers part of the conundrum. For all the experts on the morning no one really has any good suggestions. "Vaccines forever" isn't really a tenable option. Israel is pushing a fourth shot for their "vulnerable" populations but how reasonable is that strategy? We have put so many eggs into the vaccination basket and it looks like it is all getting scrambled.

Euronews reports a new variant of COVID has been identified in Southern France. It hasn't yet been designated a variant "of concern" but they are watching it. The first case might be a man who returned to France from Cameroon. This illustrates the primary weakness in the "Vaccinate us out of the pandemic" strategy: large parts of the world have negligible vaccination rates.