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Originally Posted by synecdoche
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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That's good to hear that cases are dropping among the most vaccinated groups.
Just before this all started last year, I was making plans to meet a friend in a city where neither of us lives for a weekend visit. Obviously that didn't happen.... My friend has been fully vaccinated and I will be getting my 2nd dose next week, but we still aren't making travel plans.
I can understand it feels more urgent though for grandparents/grandchildren. Young children change so fast and grandparents want to see them before they grow up. Plus if the grandparents are older you always have in the back of your mind that each visit could be the last.