POSTCARD N.50 -  United States of America
Postcrossing postcard sent on the 15th November; received on the 25th November
Postcard image: Arizona - The Grand Canyon State
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The desert and all those amazing tall cacti plus the inebriating views of the Grand Canyon. The stuff of longing... yes, I've always wanted to go there and see it in the ..well...rock and chlorophyll. 

Looking at the postcard Roxanne sent me (a great Thanks, Roxanne!) only served to remember me that there is so much world out there to see, this feeling being strongly accentuated against the backdrop of a pandemic that is raging and condemns us to stay... just a little bit longer (hopefully).

And I know, i'm one of the lucky ones. I live in a country where almost 90% of the population is fully vaccinated, a sound proof that our public health system, even though stressed to the limit, can deliver due to the generous and committed effort of our doctors, nurses and health system support professionals. Brave people they are, and brave people we are for fully accepting the vaccination programme. Of course we still have infections and deaths, but the numbers can't compare with those from one year ago when people weren't yet vaccinated.

Richer nations like mine can even afford to have fringes of population that think they are better off living in interactive flirting with such sexy objects of desire as smallpox and measles and covid-19, in the comfort of their fully infrastructured societies, where water never stops to run in the tap, sewage goes somewhere the eyes don't see and the nose doesn't smell, light bulbs are a human right, and so on.

Of course richer nations even have those that believe that the planet, our planet, is flat...

I am no expert, but I do have faith in Science and Knowledge, They are the only way out, and they have to be taken everywhere... in a massive vaccination effort, just like the Covid vaccines.  It is no perfect solution, yet, but so far it is the only one we have and the world should be concentrating in ensuring that people on all corners of the ROUND planet (I know, corners and round don't match, but idiomatics are exercises of poetic freedom, aren't they?) get their shots so that, just like measles (or even better smallpox) the only ones who get it are those that so chose, in the exercise of their right to abuse themselves.

What has this all got to do with Arizona and the grand Canyon? I don't know, but sometimes words just go their own way across the keyboard....

Nice card, isn't it?

Roxanne used a "Forever"  Global rate  self-adhesive Stamp, issued as a single stamp on 24APR2020, with a nice picture of a Chrysanthemum.

The machine applied cancellation identifies the mailing local as Arizona's State capital: Phoenix.