Last Sunday, our congregation ended our worship service (as we always do) with a
communal prayer. And, as has happened more often than not these past two years,
the person offering the prayer expressed a heart-felt hope for a swift end to
this pandemic. It’s become our favorite litany, repeated so often we almost don’t
hear it anymore. But this time I found myself wondering what an end to the
pandemic might look like. It probably wouldn’t mean COVID-19 or its long-term complications
would just go away. But maybe it will gradually recede from being the third
leading cause of death. Maybe terms like outbreak, quarantine, PPE, KN95,
ventilator, staffing shortages, supply-chain issues, and R-naught will just
drop back out of our daily conversation. Maybe COVID infections and deaths will
slowly dwindle until they’re no longer newsworthy. Maybe we’ll go back to
worrying about other things, like the economy, the weather or the next election.
It can’t come soon enough for me.
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