Another COVID booster, another day laid out on the couch and moaning occasionally because of all the aches I’m feeling.
It probably didn’t help that I got a flu shot at the same time. Both of my arms feel dead.
I wonder if I’ll ever get to the point where I’m not laid out for most of a day after receiving a COVID booster shot. Granted, it has gotten better since the first ones—I’m not a moaning pile of soreness like I used to be.
I’m looking forward to this evening when I will surely feel better.
I got harassed for wearing a mask for the first time today by exactly the sort of science-denying, flag-based-propaganda-on-a-shirt-wearing jerk that you may be picturing in your head.
“You can take that thing off. It’s over!” he said as if I had asked for his opinion.
After seeing three people make the same moving violation while out driving today I’m left to wonder if people are worse drivers now because of the pandemic or had I not been paying attention until lately?
Either way, it feels less safe than ever to drive.
I got my free COVID tests in the mail today! I’m thrilled to have them on hand.
Getting them couldn’t have been simpler and took me all of a minute to do. U.S. residents can order four free tests for their household at COVIDtests.gov.
I’m so glad that California finally opened up COVID boosters to everyone. I was able to get a Moderna booster yesterday and I’m feeling great about doing it.
Unfortunately, it’s feeling like I’ll be hit hard by this one. I expect that I’ll be spending today in bed.
My second COVID vaccine is knocking me for a loop today. I’ve got a whole body ache going on and it is unpleasant, to say the least.
Still totally worth it, though. Screw this disease!
I received my second Pfizer vaccine earlier today, and I couldn’t be happier about it. As many people have already said, any discomfort I may feel from this shot is well worth dealing with if it means helping myself and those around me stay safe.
Well, if this doesn’t make for a phenomenal day, then I don’t know what will. I feel great about doing my part to help us all move past this terrible disease.
Seems that certain establishments in L.A. and Orange Counties could be able to start opening up as soon as this weekend. People are getting vaccinated, but hey, it’s not like we’ve got this thing beat yet! Here’s hoping there won’t be another (possibly inevitable) spike in cases.
Right-wing Idaho activists burn masks, claiming COVID restrictions infringe on liberties ↗
I guess the last year and change doesn’t mean anything to them. “The health of other people? What’s that?”
On the plus side, I think I found my new favorite Los Angeles Times writer. Richard Read reports:
The protesters appear to inhabit an alternate reality, one in which they claim that the coronavirus is no more dangerous than the flu and that public health directives based on science are dictatorial.
That’s some top-notch truth and shade this man is throwing.
I’d ask these people what they think of their fellow citizens’ right not to become infected by the callous actions of these dumb crusaders, but that sort of thing would mean they’d have to think of someone other than themselves.
Dr. Francisco Velázquez, Spokane Regional Health District interim health officer, in an interview for this article:
I don’t think the intent is to violate anyone’s rights, the intent is mainly to protect all of us. I do respect their opinion, but the facts are the facts.
The facts are the facts, but their opinion isn’t respectable. It’s harmful.
I’ve been noticing that we’re entering the point where some harmful dolts are simply refusing to wear masks while out in public in Southern California now. Sigh…
Having to wear a mask all the time is giving me newfound respect for what Tom Hardy had to go through while filming The Dark Knight Rises. Boy, that looks uncomfortable.
