April 28th is my COVID-19 liberation date 💉

That’s what my mom likes to tell me, two weeks after I got my second Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine today. I am kind of glad to be putting COVID-19 behind me, to know that I won’t have much of a risk of getting very sick from COVID-19, especially after that two week date passes. Not that it will mean much of a change in my day-to-day routine, as I’ll still be working from home and wearing a mask at the store — but it does mean I won’t have to worry much about getting sick from COVID going forward.

I am glad, because it’s been quite the year plus that has come and gone. A fair amount of worry and concern, change and surprise. A lot of grim statistics to study, but also reason for hope now that at least I am beyond it. Sure, there are people who get vaccinated and then still get sick, but those are quite rare — statistics that will certainly diminish as more people get vaccinated the virus is further starved.