We’ve been in this mess for a little more than nine months. And despite the hashtags, jovial social media coping mechanisms and mask fiascos of 2020, we received a glimmer of hope this week with the first vaccine administrations in Ohio and West Virginia. But Dr. Jeff Patey, a Marietta frontline physician, gave us a clear warning this week about premature returns to “normal.” “The vaccine is not going to reach the general public until February or March,” he noted Monday. Priority is being given to frontline health workers, like my mother who is a speech-language pathologist, just like the SLPs, RNs, LPNs, physicians and other healthcare personnel who work in our hospitals, for our Board of Developmental Disabilities and for hospice and home health firms locally — not to mention paramedics, EMTs, nursing home workers and dental workers — who are at a greater risk of exposure to the deadly, novel virus.