economic and political impact of a vaccine

If one of the major powerhouses of the US, Russia, or China get an effective vaccine with the others lagging behind in that aspect, I would assume that whomever was able to get it effective will have a decent amount of control in the global economics for a bit. I would say this because I would assume that the ones will want to be able to profit from giving the other world powers a way to end some of the mass hysteria that's going around. Especially if it wasn't the US, I would think that the others would almost hold it for ransom so the citizens would pressure the federal government to buy a bunch to end some of the civil unrest in cities and in the people that are tired of it. 

For the ones that can find an effective vaccine without others being close to finding a solution that makes it go away, will have an advantage to try to engage with some melding in some of the other nations politics by trying to sign agreements that will have some clauses that could help spread a bit of the ones politics and government into the other countries.

Covid vaccines and global cooperation

The creation and distribution of a vaccine will be a global endeavor because we are relying on the majority of people to be able to receive the vaccine at some point but it will most likely be in waves, so it would be bad for citizens to fight over who are the ones to get them in which wave of doses sent out. If there's fighting then it can get ugly and make the distributions of them take more time. if those people are respectful about who gets it when then it should cause less deaths to those at risk. 

Its also a global endeavor in how it gets delivered because some countries might not trust the people that are getting it, so they might boycott it and have to have more people wait longer. The more time it takes the more people it can expose which in turn will lead to more people dying from it. The countries will also be in charge of who gets it when and they can deem that the vaccine costs money to get which will limit the people getting it.

The creation of the vaccine would be a global mesh hopefully to have it as being a cooperative system to develop the vaccine and not make it a competition which hurts basically everyone because then it gets to be about money and cost efficiency, so they dilute the vaccine making it less effective, which will then only temporally slow down escalation but not in the groups that need it the most.

Games, school and Andy

 This photo was taken during Governor Andy Beshear's address that he gave to the residents and citizens of Kentucky having to announce that Kentucky has to report that we now have over 1,000 covid related deaths here in the commonwealth. I found that the address he gave was really emotional and sincere about having to mourn and remember those that we've lost around the world but also here in the commonwealth.  

With people showing their support to those who have lost people during this pandemic with green lights, we wanted to show our support as well but we had an issue because the lights on our front porch is out and use old bulbs that hardly get made anymore. So something that we thought to do was to make cranes for every Kentucky death related to covid since the start of the pandemic when KY first got a related covid death. My family has done our best to keep up with the numbers reported to us by Governor Andy Beshear.

I'm doing my best adjusting to taking all online classes and trying my best to keep up with my work since i'm not in classes or in a dorm to keep track of myself more easily. The one thing I'm hoping to not do again is to not do my online homework for my calculus class because that hurt last semester especially after the switch to online.

 I spent Wednesday of last week having to take a Calculus 3 test. We were asked to join a zoom meeting to be on as we take the test. While I get why they're doing it, I found it a bit annoying because I had to have my camera on while taking the test, and it was slightly uncomfortable for me. Part of the reason I didn't like it that much is that the camera on my laptop seems to be bad. If I have my camera on, I would be cast in darkness even if I had the sunlight and an overhead light on in the room. O

So there's a game that has recently gotten big even though it was released around 2 years ago. I had asked some of my family on Friday if they wanted to play it, and we got a lobby and played few games. We got on a zoom meeting so we can talk just not through the game chat. Before we actually started we tried to discuss which platform (zoom or discord) was the best option to talk through when we had the ability.  On Saturday, I spent a little bit of time to play 2 games with my parents and grandparents, of the game called Among Us. I made a discord server for us to do it on because I'd thought that that would be the best way, partly because I was watching some people stream the game and that was how they were doing it. 

Sports

 I watched several of the UK football games, by going to the two home games and the one that happened this past weekend against Georgia. I have also tried to watch the girls soccer game but haven't been able to do it too much, as I did last year since those games spectators are invited by only the players and coaches. I watched the Volleyball game against Tennessee and Missouri on TV. even though I wanted to watch the Tennessee one when it was at Memorial Coliseum.  Some of the other sports I would like to possibly get into but can't really keep up with them that well. 

Hockey could be the one that I would like to get into the most that I know about, however the games for UK happen to be at a place that I can't get to because I don't have a car and no one to drive me there. I also don't like that the games start at midnight. I might be a bit of a night owl but I have a bit of a problem in that I just can't stay asleep after I wake up and start to function a bit. My body follows the circadian rhythm a bit too well, and will wake up at a bit of sunlight and then I can't get back to sleep which sucks for me because I tend to always be partly active and stay up a bit late.

These photos were taken during the football game against Georgia this past weekend, unfortunately we lost the game but it was a decent experience to be able to get out and watch the game and not have to watch it on TV. We followed the guidance to the best of our ability and we were surrounded by a few people socially distanced but not entirely following the mask mandate. The group of four that we were because that is how they sold seats in, were me, my dad, my grandfather, and my cousin: me and my dad are under the same roof and have been the entire time. My grandfather and my cousin is great and mostly kept their masks on when need to, but not all the time. The section that we were in is the opposite of the student section, our section seemed to be socially distance in the right seats besides the ones behind us because there was only one row between us and not the two or three that the others are.