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Apr. 8th, 2021 02:04 pm
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Yesterday I got my first covid shot-- everyone seems to be dividing themselves by brand of shot, which is weird to me, but for my own records it was the moderna one.

I'm definitely having a response to it-- my arm hurts enough that its use is limited, and chores aren't my favourite right now -- carrying buckets of water and grain and whatnot. I'm told the pain should just be a day or two. Very glad someone advised me to get it on the arm I don't sleep on.

It reminds me of putting together the yearbook in high school. I don't remember which immunization it was, but we did a spread on "entire grade nine class shot", which was lightly amusing at the time. That was my graduating year-- 1999. The Columbine shooting happened between design and publishing, and obviously we had to choose a different theme last minute.

I'm also reminded of the depo-provera birth control shot I was on for awhile. My life was often too chaotic to take a pill every day, especially the same time every day, so I switched to it for peace of mind. It was super easy, just go in every couple months. It got rid of the blood times, which was pretty good. Unfortunately it also made my emotions super volatile and all-consuming; I mean moreso than they are normally. I didn't recognise it at the time, and I went off it for other reasons. When I look at the difference in my journal between the time before the last one wore off and the time after the difference is stark, however. Now my birth control depends tenuously on the one kind of copper IUD I can use. It's super common in Europe but isn't approved in North America, so I need to have it brought in and inserted kind of under the table. Bleh. I'm working up to "only dudes with vasectomies apply within" I believe.

In more general covid-not-shot news, our whole little town got done at once. They're doing all the little towns up north here one-by-one, I think first they did those without hospitals, now they're doing those without hospitals able to keep covid patients, more remote first -- the helicopter to Vancouver isn't cheap for the medical system, I guess. It seems easier for them to come through and do two days twice rather than step through the age brackets one-by-one as they're doing down south.

Canada (or is it BC?) is choosing to prioritize getting everyone a first shot, and waiting as long as they can -- 4 months is roughly expected -- before the second shot, with the idea that it's better for twice as many people to have 80% immunity rather than half as many have the higher immunity. We'll see how that works out. I know we're much shorter on vaccines than the US, so they're now way ahead of us in numbers after a slow start. Meanwhile the variants, which spread more easily (well, the ones that become prevalent spread more easily) and in some cases are more deadly for the younger folks being immunized last, are beginning to take over. This is definitely a good time to be getting higher immunity, and to keep being careful.

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