Hi guys! I meant to publish this on December 31st, but I’m here at my parents’ house, visiting, and didn’t get it done. So I’ll backdate. Hope you are having a good 2021 so far. One of my goals for 2021 is a more regular blogging schedule so I hope to be back soon with more content!
What a year. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s had fantasy conversations with my past self about our current unbelievable reality.
Me, circa February 2020: “What’s with the masks?”
Current Me: “Girl, how much time you got?”
Also unbelievable: Moderna Inc. started working on the vaccine in early January of this year. Before any of us even had a clue what was coming. From Bloomberg Businessweek:
“The biotechnology company Moderna Inc. had downloaded the genetic code for the novel coronavirus from researchers in China. Within a few days, scientists there had developed a vaccine with the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the research agency led by Anthony Fauci. By mid-March, they’d started a clinical trial.”
There’s a lot that goes on in the world that I don’t know. Thank goodness, right? Both the good and the bad parts.
But this post isn’t about those things, so much. It’s about how my little neck of the woods did, benchmark-wise, this year.
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