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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
My husband and I have now both had our first dose of the Pfizer vaccine in the last week. Because Canada's supply of vaccine is limited we have taken the unprecedented step of delaying our second doses for 16 weeks. I think that is risky...but we have no say ... so we wont get our second doses till August. I suspect that we could still catch covid waiting for our second shot. What does delaying it do to our immunity .. its like a giant science experiment ... I guess as a country we will know by the fall if its a problem not having our second doses sooner. They made the decision to do everyone with first doses then start on second doses they figured it provides good protection with one dose but do they really know for how long?!
April 21, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
I never imagined that I'd find myself in the urgent care this past week asking for a COVID-19 test but I was stressing that I was showing all the symptoms - exhaustion/lethargy and an overbearing cough. Even though I was exhausted, I walked around my neighbor anxiously awaiting the results of my COVID-19 test. I was going to blow a gasket if I had somehow contracted COVID after all this time. I mean, for god's sake, I was less than 10 days from my second shot. When the doctor called me to say I was negative, I did a mini happy dance. Once again, I have outrun the RONA. But I also dreaded the fact that I was suffering from a mild cold. And the doctor told me the best medicine was "rest." Oh the irony. The one thing I don't have. Time to rest. Things have never been busier at work than right now. I have no time to be sick. This meant that everywhere I went this week, strangers looked at me as if I was Satan's incarnate. Their angry eyes followed me, silently and then not so much judging me. Even when I wore a mask, I was still met with those stares. The ones that said "what the heck are you doing here? Get out."
May 10, 2021