This is the scene on 15 April 2021 at the Times Union Center, downtown Albany, during my post-vaccine 15 minute waiting period. This is my second vaccination (Moderna). I bumped into an old friend who was volunteering at the site, and she gave me instructions for signing up to volunteer. My wife also signed up. We have yet to volunteer, but we're looking forward to it. I imagine it will be guiding people, maybe doing intake, etc.
April 23, 2021
With covid cases increasing rapidly in my city, I have felt somewhat discouraged and a bit depressed. Feels like we are never, in my lifetime, going to recover from this. I don't mind wearing a mask -- and I am starting to do so every time I leave my apartment -- but I don't like feeling fearful to even go anywhere. A close friend, whom I got vaccinated with back in March, got covid recently. I thought she was being pretty careful but I think a lot of us stopped wearing our masks sometimes because we were under the impression that the vaccine would protect us. I know it's not 100% but it still offers a great deal of protection. It's all these variants that keep developing among the unvaccinated -- so scary. I wish more people would see the vaccines as an important step in controlling the virus.
August 11, 2021