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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.
There is too much to worry about this week. Things are still horrible in India and other countries. There are so many anti-vaxers in the US that they might not get herd immunity. Varients are spreading. The UK is still only vaccinating over 40s and have plans to have everything opened next week. My husband doesn't have any vaccines yet. And they are finding the Indian variant here.... And then there are over 1000 rockets (as of 12.5 at 12:20pm) being hurled into Israel. My friends and family spending the night in bomb shelters. Watching the horrifying fighting in Lod. Just the deep fear of what will happen. And then seeing that there might be mosquitos in the UK with the Zika virus (I haven't thought about that in a long time). For so long it felt like the only thing going on in the world was COVID (not that was true), but now that COVID is in many places slowing down (please God, may it continue that way), the world is back to being a big mess.
May 13, 2021