When we first heard the vaccine was coming out, we were actually excited about it.
Knowing that so much progress had been made in the disease, but it’s like anything new. I think you’re fearful. You’re worried about was this done properly? Was it researched enough or was this just being rushed out to market as a political ploy? Because of the administration obviously that was an office at the time who I didn’t have any confidence in. And so we were waiting hopefully kind of like with bated breath. And as you saw more and more health care professionals received the vaccine, you weren’t hearing a lot about adverse effects. Then it became a waiting game to see like, well, who would be chosen to get the vaccine? How are they going to decide that?
When it came around to find out that because of my status as a health care provider and a COVID tester for my particular school district, we were told that we would actually be in line to receive the vaccine before others so that we could get back to work and help get the school districts back online. And I was actually excited about it. I thought, well, this could be a good thing. I’d seen so many others receive it and it kind of meant that our lives were going back to normal.
My children were considered high risk because some of their medical conditions and they both received it without any problem. We didn’t have sicknesses and illnesses. And while the vaccine was obviously it’s painful to receive, it was no different than any other vaccine. We went back for the second ones and we went back for the boosters.
Although I do have doubts about continuing the booster a year booster a year, I really haven’t felt the need for that. I feel like everything now is manageable and COVID has gotten these variants have gotten no worse than a common cold or a flu.
