Nine more weeks. Roughly 60 more days. About 1,500 hours. That’s what it comes down to after living under a public health threat that has killed more than 4,000 New Mexicans, put tens of thousands of our residents out of work and locked hundreds of thousands of our kids out of schools. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s announcement Wednesday that she plans to fully reopen the state in nine weeks is the light at the end of the tunnel we’ve all yearned for. At last we’ve got a path out of this pandemic, thanks to many New Mexicans’ responsible mask-wearing and social distancing, as well as our high vaccination rates. Kudos to all those New Mexicans who have taken one or two shots for the team – and for themselves, their friends, their co-workers, their neighbors, their fellow parishioners and their families.