Your Vaccination Card as a Passport to the Future

It’s not just relief from the threat of COVID-19

Mike Meyer
6 min readFeb 22, 2021

by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ February 21, 2021

Our world is new and strange in many ways. While many people are anxiously awaiting a return to the pre-pandemic world, many others are growing familiar with the pleasures of a new and different world. The experiences are very different and will, I think, only expand the gaps between the broken pieces of human society and the disintegration of American society specifically.

We spend so much time struggling to understand the social malignancy that has destroyed our governments that we miss the new pleasures. We are living in a new world. Our collision with the COVID pandemic concurrently with hyperobjects such as climate warming, economic disintegration, and the Western representative government’s failure has shattered us and launched the pieces on new trajectories.

We are not sure what we are and have no idea where we are going. We have started trying to gather our pieces in the normal human manner and pretend that nothing much has changed. But that is obviously not the case.

Just as people who have been badly shaken up will pick themselves up and announce that they are fine until the reality of their injuries puts them back down…

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Mike Meyer

Writer, Educator, Campus CIO (retired) . Essays on our changing reality here, news and more at https://rlandok.substack.com/