Anyone been vaccinated yet? I'm far from anyone's idea of a priority group and I'm able to effectively work from home, so I have no intentions of trying to jump the line in any way. We're falling
quite a bit short of bb skarm's almost hilariously overly optimistic projection of 75 million vaccinated in the US by the end of January, but curious if anyone here has been in the early priority groups and what their experience was like.
What about your older family members? It's been a bit of a nightmare for my family to get my grandparents the vaccine, but they did just recently get their first dose.
My family and friends who are health care workers have pretty much all been vaccinated, but almost no one else I know has, since thus far it seems to be pretty much just health care and the elderly, at least in the US.
Meanwhile, turning away from vaccines to the casualties of the disease, several coworkers and clients have recently lost parents or other family members, which has hit everyone hard. And now I've learned that a child of a family friend was hospitalized due to what seems to be the
rare but awful reaction that some kids get from covid. He was at one point put into a medically induced coma, and, given the severity of his disease course, he more likely than not will eventually die from this nightmare. He just had heart surgery, but from what I'm hearing this was more of an emergency measure to keep him alive, not anything remotely curative.
There are many people who need to continue being out doing things for society to continue functioning, so if you do not need to, then please stay home. When you're out, please be as safe as possible. I can't stress enough that this shit is still real and it is still killing people.