Joe Heller for March 02, 2021

It’s spelled R-E-L-I-E-F and when you get your shots, you’ll feel even more of it… since you will have waited longer. Meanwhile: PLEASE don’t go stir crazy so you do the things that we KNOW helps the pandemic to spread. Instead, take another deep breath, square your shoulders, and adult-on: The end IS coming into view… too slowly for comfort, but faster than most of us thought would be possible.

Hope.

Just because you’ve got your COVID-19 jab (or jabs), AND you’ve waited two weeks (or so) for your immune system to “catch up”, you STILL have to practice social distancing and mask-wearing when around other people. To do otherwise would be insulting to those who haven’t been vaccinated. Their day will come for shots – then we can all smile at each other again . . .

We’ve still got a long way to go.

It ain’t over until the CDC says the fat lady can sing without a mask . . . so to speak.

Grandma just fell down and broke her hip.

Maybe those that refuse to be vaccinated will make it quicker for others. Just a thought.

Does it matter what in it? If those are the results, I’m in.

Freedom. That’s what’s in those shots.

As long as there are willing hosts for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus variants will emerge — some perhaps resilient to the anti-bodies that the current vaccines produce. A real effective lockdown at the onset could have given us freedom much sooner, but true freedom was not the agenda of the former administration.

I have made two appointments to be vaccinated. Both were cancelled days ahead of time because of vaccine supply issues. I’m told I’m on a “priority” waiting list due to my advanced age and vulnerability to the disease, and I was requested to please be patient, continue the protocols of isolation and distancing, and I would be notified when the supplies had been received and are available. Given the State I live in, I’m more or less taking that request as a gentle reminder that “Old people get sick and die all the time. Deal with it.” /s

My appointment for shot two is the 21st. I live in Illinois and our system works perfectly except when people try to cut the line. Missouri, next door, has a Republican governor and a system so bad that they are allowing vaccine to spoil in rural areas where it has not been needed, while the cities don’t have enough.

Not sure why they took their masks off. Just because they can’t get sick doesn’t mean they can’t spread it. The masks have to stay on until everyone is vaccinated.

According to my mother-in-law, the shots have chips in them so that Big Brother can follow your every movement… I had to remind her that they already do with her credit card, her SNAP card, her social services card, her gps in her phone and so forth and so on… I swear, she probably wears an aluminum foil hat!

trump & melania secretly got vaccinated in January. I guess he didn’t want his base to know that he believes the virus is serious. They said if he had made it public, more of his followers would have been vaccinated ~ but he doesn’t care about them.

a new lease on life after being cooped up for a year

Covid spreaders Donald and Melania were vaccinated at the WH in January, but they never mentioned it. They like to kill Americans.

Fauci warns that it’s too early to assume that “you’re free” just because you’re an early recipient of the vaccine…

{;^)}

Scheduled for shot #2 on the 13th. It will be a relief not to fear for one’s life, though of course we’re still only beginning to make a dent.

Those who believe that being vaccinated means that they have no need to mask reveal their ignorance or stupidity or both.

An old USAF boss sent a blanket email of his covid vaccination saga, had to drive 385 miles across Washington to a Costco….Gotta go back in a month.

“I want to know what’s in those shots” – A sense of relief!

I finally managed to get scheduled – 35 minutes away. Nothing closer, except the super-spreader event at the fair grounds.

A month ago my health system sent out an informational email that they would notify us when to schedule the vaccine appointments. It was to be based upon the CDC eligibility and a Covid-19 risk assessment. Today I looked at their web site and found that now, if we are eligible, we are to call a special number to be put on a waitlist. They are not making online appointments because of the demand, and the unreliability of having sufficient vaccines on hand. I guess I’ll be making a phone call tomorrow,

It’s how the people in my family (who are old enough) have been feeling about getting our vaccines… but none of us are taking off our masks yet.

I got my first Covid shot on Monday (the Pfizer vaccine), I’m getting my second on the 22nd of this month. My brother and sister in law got their second shots this week (the Moderna vaccine). So, I am feeling really good right now. My hope is strong that we can keep the Covid rates going down and the number of vaccinations going up (especially with approval of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine). And that by August or September, things will be close to normal (at least here in the NE). And, by the spring of ’22, America will be more like 2019 than 2020!