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I got my first shot (of AstraZeneca) yesterday afternoon! Not much in the way of side effects. I've had a headache since last night (seems to be abating this morning) and my arm is sore, but I get headaches now and then at the best of times so it might have been unrelated.
My wife gets hers on Saturday. It feels a bit like a light at the end of the tunnel—the roll-out has been slow where I live, and our provincial government doesn't inspire much confidence—but it's still probably not going to change much for us day to day for a while. The cases where I live have been dropping though, and the graphs show that the populations that are most vaccinated (e.g. 65+) didn't increase in cases the way the younger, unvaccinated groups did, which is a good sign.
I wish there was a better understanding of what behaviours are risky and safe post-vaccination. We're probably weeks away from getting our second shots—our health officials have right now said it can go up to 4 months—but it'd be nice to go visit the in-laws again so our seven-year-old can spend time with his grandparents. Who knows how long it will be before he will get a shot. And then my family is on the other side of the country, and I haven't seen them in a year and a half at this point. I was planning a trip out their way right when everything went crazy last spring and so it didn't happen.
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