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When I was getting my second shot of the COVID-19 vaccine I asked the nurse if there was reason to not get a third shot. This was back in early April and no talk as yet of a booster. She just smiled and offered nothing even when I said I was trying to find out medical and or legal ramifications. Since then I had been to the doctors a couple of times and each time I asked him about it and as with the nurse got nothing from him. During all of this time I searched by Google trying to find legal implications and medical FYI's for not getting a third dose and couldn't find anything. With the medical and legal aspects out of the picture I then turned to the moral aspects. After all, the law of opportunity applies and if I got a third shot then someone else wasn't getting this shot from that little bottle. And so at the start of this week I tried to research shelf life of the vaccines for COVID-19 and was surprised at how short of a period it was (~35 days).
At this point I happen to ask my local grocer's pharmacy that was giving out the shots if they had a lot of takers. "No." I asked if they found themselves disposing of vaccine product. "Oh yeah!" At this point I went out to my healthcare system provider's website, clicked the COVID-19 vaccination page and followed the link to my grocer. On their site I registered an appointment and to my surprise they setup an appointment for me in less than 24-hours. I made it a point to get there an hour early and equally surprised I was the only person at the pharmacy. This is a well known chain grocer down here in the southeast and I asked when the last time they gave someone a COVID-19 shot and she said "early last week." I asked if I was their only appointment for today and she said, "The only appointment so far through the end of the month."
So, while I like to perform social experiments on my Anand-minions from time to time I chose to perform this social-medical experiment and play the proverbial rat. 'One shot, please.' This isn't a booster, although this grocer had just started offering booster shots as well. At this location they only had the Moderna product, but haven read an article last week there apparently is some benefit from mixing between vaccine products. My original shots were Pfizer and this time Moderna. Arm is a little sore at the injection site--more than the Pfizer--but its been twelve hours and I haven't grown a long, hairless tail yet. Okay, criticize we as you will.
At this point I happen to ask my local grocer's pharmacy that was giving out the shots if they had a lot of takers. "No." I asked if they found themselves disposing of vaccine product. "Oh yeah!" At this point I went out to my healthcare system provider's website, clicked the COVID-19 vaccination page and followed the link to my grocer. On their site I registered an appointment and to my surprise they setup an appointment for me in less than 24-hours. I made it a point to get there an hour early and equally surprised I was the only person at the pharmacy. This is a well known chain grocer down here in the southeast and I asked when the last time they gave someone a COVID-19 shot and she said "early last week." I asked if I was their only appointment for today and she said, "The only appointment so far through the end of the month."
So, while I like to perform social experiments on my Anand-minions from time to time I chose to perform this social-medical experiment and play the proverbial rat. 'One shot, please.' This isn't a booster, although this grocer had just started offering booster shots as well. At this location they only had the Moderna product, but haven read an article last week there apparently is some benefit from mixing between vaccine products. My original shots were Pfizer and this time Moderna. Arm is a little sore at the injection site--more than the Pfizer--but its been twelve hours and I haven't grown a long, hairless tail yet. Okay, criticize we as you will.
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