First Shot in the Arm

“Encouraging vaccination by positive example so that life can become a bit less worried and risky for everyone” would seem to be a good thing. Living in a country stuck depending on vaccine imports while seeing reports from a country using its domestic production for itself, though, did get me thinking that to make a big deal of getting a first shot could seem like “boasting to the less fortunate.” That might not have seemed a big problem when it was announced people my age and a little younger could apply for Oxford-AstraZeneca doses in my province. To do that we had to contact individual pharmacies to see if there were any doses available, and when web sites didn’t offer appointments and a cell phone outage kept me from making any calls on the first day of availability I drifted all too close to a casual shrug and the thought that since I was fortunate enough to be able to work from home I ought not to worry too much for myself and hope those with greater determination were also in greater need.
( But that’s not the end of the story )