On April 19th I received my first Covid Vaccination, (the Moderna one) at a mass community vaccination clinic. Exactly one day after my 67 year old father qualified for his, lol. They are rolling it out in age brackets in BC, but decided to add our island to the list of “remote locations with limited health care access” and a very high percentage of vulnerable elderly residents in our population. This, of course, caused a
huge population spike for that particular weekend, and it was three days of fully loaded ferries following the clinic to offload all the “residents”. 368 doses administered, on an island with less than that in full time residents, about 60 “no way I’m getting that vaccine, it’s dangerous, experimental, and not properly tested” people, and with over 100 people who had already received the vaccine being 70+ and having gotten it in town as soon as they were eligible. Cheaters! Hint, if you need directions to find the rec center, then you probably shouldn’t be getting the shot as a “resident”.
The day of the shot I was fine. On day two, my left arm was practically useless, and by the end of the day I was a little itchy on both my forearms, but thought maybe I had gotten bit by something. Day three I had hives on both forearms and halfway up my biceps, as well as from below both my ankles to about 8” up my legs. They lasted for two days. Only one case of severe side effects on island and that was fever/chills/aches, and there was one “big, tough guy” who fainted while getting the shot.
Sadly, one (or more) of those 60 “Nope” people decided to let the air out of our
volunteer community health person’s car tires the night before the clinic. All four tires. This sweet little old lady in her mid to late 70’s, who arranges our pharmacy drop bag service, (we have an exception to standard pharmacy protocols for pickup because of our location) and helps coordinate things like our annual flu shot clinics, and yes, she helped to arrange that scary Covid Vaccine clinic. People suck. It wasn’t going to stop the clinic, all it did was inconvenience a very nice person greatly by having to pull out her air compressor and re-inflate all her tires early in the morning.
Also, our case numbers are spiking again, despite mass vaccinations, and we are going into another (kinda, not really) lockdown. But schools are still operating as usual, because children can only catch the Covid, they don’t transmit it
rolleyes
. Travel restrictions are being reinstated, and now RV’s and campers are being banned from our ferry service.
because yes, we were told that we should be pulling our water from there too).
