Odyssey 2021

The new year that has just begun has before it the great odyssey of overcoming the coronavirus and its deadly consequences. The first worldwide injections of the various vaccines represent a decisive first step in the fight against a pandemic that has brought down the most powerful countries on the planet and those less developed to a near limit. Many of us believe that vaccines bring some hope to millions of people who yearn for and need their lives back.

At least, a good part of their routine in their family and personal relationships and what is more complicated in their daily work, and if they have lost it, in finding a new one that allows them to continue living with dignity. We have to continue living with respect to this new disease as we have with others like the normal flu, cancer, AIDS or heart attacks, but without fear of moving, of doing what we did before, but with more safety measures. Every day more cases of psychological damage are being known, of fear of contagion, even though their consequences will not be fatal.

There are even people who have not been able to overcome this pressure, this anguish, this fear of the coronavirus and have chosen to commit suicide. Not much is said about these enormous dramas in too many families until you are touched by your family or your neighbors or your friends and the disaster it causes causes a sense of grief and shock at the extent of the effects of the virus. 
It takes time to be able to vaccinate 70% of the population and thus consider that herd immunity is effective and to be able to consider that we have ended the nightmare. In the meantime, we have to live through this time, these months that are ahead of us and that are decisive for ourselves, our families, our people, our country and for the whole world. In the meantime, we find that some of the tantrums of the fateful 2020 continue.

Above all, that of Donald Trump who continues to talk about electoral fraud and even the Republicans no longer believe him. To the point that he has suffered the great humiliation of having his veto in the Senate on the defense budget challenged. The fact is that many Republican senators and congressmen already recognize the victory of Democrat Joe Biden, who will be sworn in as the new president of the United States of America on January 20.

There are high hopes for Biden, who as president-elect has taken action against the coronavirus and faced the challenge of overcoming the great divide among Americans. That is another odyssey.