Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness

"Covid vaccine arrives first for Native nations in Minn," I saw on social media. I clicked on it and the page itself is headlined "'I'm going to be able to hug my mom again'"* which nearly made me cry, just to see it there in big letters when I was at work and tired and completely unable to guess when I might be able to hug my mom again. (I'm sure some part of my brain is constantly at least dimly aware that that's a thing that should be happening in the next week and it won't be.)

I'm delighted to see some of the first U.S. vaccinations go to indigenous people; they've been hit hardest by coronavirus. It's absolutely heartbreaking.

* I know the vaccine needs two doses and then it takes a while to build up immunity and even when someone's immune they could maybe still pass on the virus. This person isn't saying she's gonna hug her mom today, but this is still a big step towards that!