Christmastime Vaccines (Poem)

The Covid-19 pandemic, social unrest historical,

Political polarizations unimaginable,

Locust swarms, hurricanes, street protests and wild fires,

Plus so much more, all adding to global quagmires.

2020, one for the records! What a year!

Our hopes were lifted just as Christmastime drew near:

Brand new vaccines were approved and quickly distributed,

This, just in time as pandemic deaths had skyrocketed!

Yet, as vaccines roll out all across our land,

Against them, some folks are taking a hard stand.

But it’s not only to the new vaccines they object.

For any and all vaccines, they have no respect.

Anti-vaxxers these folks are called,

And across the land they are sprawled.

They are very reasoned in their various objections,

And prefer to accept the risks of getting infections. 

My point is not to proffer a value judgment,

But to highlight our collective predicament.

You see…

With vaccines, protection of a community,

Is akin to something called, herd immunity.

Only when a large number of folks are protected,

Will the incidence of disease spread be limited,

And the worth of vaccines be understood.

Thus, vaccines protect both you and your ‘hood.

 

Long ago, some folks’ hopes were similarly lifted, 

When to all mankind a special babe was gifted.

It happened during a very challenging Jewish census.

When many lived under a government that was ruthless.

He was born during a pandemic that was global,

One that was started long ago by our first couple.

God promised us relief in His chosen time,

And He kept His promise the first Christmastime. ¹

That babe grew up, and to anyone who would listen,

He revealed Himself as mankind’s best hope from Heaven.

He was God’s long-awaited vaccine equivalent,

For our inescapable sin-filled predicament.

Just as vaccines provide to us and our community,

Various degrees of protection and immunity,

Heaven’s sin-type vaccine provides exactly the same:

Help to escape sinful traps, and hell’s eternal flames. 

There are many anti-vaxxers living among us,

Who don’t believe sin is much worse than any virus.

Thus, into every sin trap they plunge, inescapably,

And then spread sinful viruses, ignominiously. ²

 

All viruses that attack us, physically,

Only make us sick or kill us, prematurely.

Ahhh…

But the sin virus, much tougher, survives our death,

Remaining with us, forever, after our last breath!. ³

Friends…

The vaccine equivalent Jesus offers to us,

Is forgiveness for sins and salvation, based on trust. 

But if an anti-vaxxer you are determined to be,

The rest of us won’t count on you for herd immunity.

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¹ See: Sin, a Spiritual Virus

² Shamelessly, dishonorably, contemptuously, disgracefully

³ Unless we repent and are forgiven by Jesus Christ