So over COVID...

[m_findlow]

Just when I thought I couldn't feel any more despondent at the fact we wouldn't be getting a first dose vaccination until the end of October, now they're pulling out of AZ altogether and now a first dose isn't likely until Christmas.

Nine more months of masks and knee-jerk lockdowns and no travel and endless hand sanitiser and being permanently paranoid about cases and who might have it. Not having many cases is good, but this is the social cost of not having them.

Not sure how much more of this I can take.

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[bk_forever]

*virtual hugs*

That sucks. Just try to take it one day at a time. Maybe another vaccine will be approved and the schedule will move up again.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I am sorry. We are beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel as we now have over 60% of our adult population either fully vaccinated or had (like me) a first dose. But then we had no qualms over the AZ one, and I will still get my second dose of it in May.

But — as more variation occurs there is a fairly high chance that anything you get by October will have been tweaked to cope better with whatever is current then, whereas I may well be only partially protected by then...

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry to hear that.

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

D:

That sucks

[jo02]

*Waves* in a vague way from up in Sydney.

Covid fatigue has definitely settled over all of us although we have pretty much all of our 'freedoms' back from Monday 12th April.

I'm not in a hurry to get the vaccination, which is good considering what a "comedy" of errors the rollout has been so far.

My big concern is what they're going to try and do once most people have been vaccinated. I'm talking about the vaccine 'passports' the government wants to bring in once the vaccinations reach about 70 percent. My fear is this Covid shit is never going to end.

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

Ughghghg! That seriously sucks. It's rotten that something so important can be so inaccessible.

I don't know what it's like in other countries; but, here in America, it seems to be population-based. That's my theory, at least, since they're really easy to get here in California, and our population is larger than that of any other state in the Union.

Personally, I think life's never going to go back to the way it used to be. As long as there are people who refuse to accept that the coronavirus poses a legitimate threat to the population, the rest of us (vaccine or no vaccine) will remain at risk. I have a cousin out in Michigan who flat-out refuses to have anything to do with the vaccine; she doesn't even believe in doctors (despite her own sister being a veterinarian). [This same lack of logic cost her her only son at birth, so we're simultaneously unsurprised and disgusted that someone from our family would go out of their way to be that ignorant.] She's endangering herself, her husband, her stepson's family, and her own parents (her mother happens to be in terrible health).

I want very much for Normal Life to come back. I'd love to not have to wear a mask and sanitize whenever Mom and I go into town. But I sincerely believe that this is our Normal Life now. We've both adjusted, and we both accept that life as we once knew it is probably gone for good.