I cannot believe COVID-19 has been affecting our lives for almost a year now. It feels like time has stopped, yet it has gone by extremely quickly. Using COVID feels like such a weird way to count time. “We’ve been in quarantine for ___ months now.” feels like the way everything is measured these days. When this all started, I never would have imagined that we would be where we are today. So many lives have been lost, yet we all find a way to carry on and adjust our daily routines to our “new normal.” I feel privileged to have been able to receive the vaccine so early on in its distribution compared to the “average Joe.” I read the science and statistics behind the vaccines, but it still does not feel like I am safer now. I still have to take all the precautions what I was taking before the vaccine. I am excited for the day when as many people who wanted to receive the vaccine have received it. I am waiting for that huge sigh of relief when COVID is “over.”