I was supposed to get the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine tomorrow morning, but sadly I got notification the City College of San Francisco vaccination site do not have enough supply to fulfill the original appointment. Therefore I am not going to complete the vaccination circle until Thursday of next week. After a grueling year of the pandemic, what’s another seven days of waiting anyways?
Of course, getting the second shot doesn’t mean I am immediately immune to COVID-19. It takes another two weeks after that for the vaccine to take full effect. That means I still have three more weeks of this super careful, masked-up, lockdown lifestyle that’s been going on for more than a year. Not that I’d be going around freely not giving a crap as soon as the two weeks is over, mind you.
Once I am fully immune, my friends and I are having a gathering to celebrate the occasion. Due to sheer luck, our friend group all either work in education, or in the medical field. Therefore, we were amongst the first batch of people to get the vaccine. This milestone should be celebrated properly: by gathering indoors without masks, and hugging each other with impunity. After a whole year of not hanging out together, it’ll be a sweet feeling indeed.
We certainly won’t be the only group of people doing this. I am genuinely happy that as more and more are vaccinated, we get to go back to socializing physically, rather than over a Zoom screen. I just hope we have enough supply for everyone to get the vaccine as quickly as possible. Hopefully my delay is just a small hiccup, rather than some widespread issue.
Shade from the sunshine.