Full immunity achieved!

[dreamshark]

Today marks 2 weeks from my second Moderna shot, so I am now officially fully immunized! Yay! I actually started timidly emerging from a year of cocoonery over the past week. On Tuesday I finally got that much-needed eye exam. Wednesday I not only got my teeth cleaned I impulsively stopped at a Lunds & Byerly on my way home and bought a mango cream pie. Today I might take the van down to the corner shop for a spring tuneup. Somehow it seems like I should be doing something more daring on my official Immunity Day, but with the local case count and hospitalization rate continuing upward it's hard to feel too ebullient. *sigh*  

Richard's birthday is this Sunday and we are actually considering eating out to celebrate. But we've gotten so accustomed to dining only on breezy open patios its hard to imagine going inside a restaurant. Are any of our favorite restaurants even open any more? I don't even know what the current COVID restrictions are, since our personal guidelines were more restrictive than the official ones so I stopped paying attention. 

What about you? Once you are fully vaccinated and as immune as you are going to get, what will you do that you couldn't do before? 

Comments

[quadong]

I never went to restaurants all that much anyway, so that is not my first thought. Mostly I'd like to see my friends again (and to see the few I've been seeing without having to go through a checklist first). I'll be fully immune on May 19 if all goes well.

[pameladean]

Hooray!

I've been what the kids on Twitter are apparently calling "street legal" since April 6, but I want everybody in the house to be fully vaccinated before I do much of anything. I did get lab work done, had an in-person visit with my doctor, and have scheduled an eye exam and a mammogram (ugh). My dentist's office reports being fully vaccinated, so I should call them for an appointment too for after the last person in the house is fully protected. I hate going to the dentist and also I would obviously have to take off my mask for that appointment, so have been doing all the other things first.

I will not be going into a restaurant any time soon. What I am going to do as soon as the last person here is street legal is finally see Eric in an ordinary way, indoors without masks. If my brother ever gets vaccinated, we will go see him and my mom indoors without masks as well, and start the belated birthday celebrations of an entire missed year. My mom turned 90 in February, so we'll do that one first with as many flourishes as we can figure out. We are all a bit out of practice.

My basic paranoia about everything is slowly ebbing, but I'm not going to push it. I got pretty freaked out about being in an enclosed space with people I don't live with when I got the lab work and again when I actually saw my doctor. It's not rational, but I don't intend to hurry things up.

P.

[dreamshark]

I love "street legal." I am definitely using that term from now on.

[pameladean]

Isn't it great?

I'm not sure it's literally kids, but hey, they are bound to be a lot younger than either me or you.

P.

[arkuat]

Yes, the big deal is that I'll get to see Pamela again, indoors and without masks! But sometime during the pandemic it occurred to me that it has been a long time since I last spent quality time with the deadtree 2nd-ed (1989) Oxford English Dictionary in the reference section of the library, and that has featured in some of my fantasies about post-pandemic.

[dreamshark]

OMG, you win the award for Geekiest Fantasy of All Time! (no, not the Pamela one)

[minnehaha]

Is that edition not the one reachable via your library card? If not, what makes the 2nd ed. of interest? On paper, I get; no need to explain.

K.

[arkuat]

Are you alluding to the practically unusable online edition? It has been a while since I last gave it a try (because I was so badly burned the first few times): perhaps it has gotten better.

[minnehaha]

No, not alluding. I am directly referencing the on-line edition that you can reach with your (HCL) library card. What I was inquiring about is the different editions (not form factors) of the OED. I vaguely recall the Old getting updated in my adulthood. I know this might matter a great deal to someone, and if it mattered to you, was inviting you to explain your fondness for one edition over the other. If one edition is the Vatican II of dictionaries, I invite you to pontificate* on that.

I find the on-line OED stupendously useful and often have it open. If I had the shelf space for the printed version I know I would love that, but I don't think I would use it as often as I use the on-line version. (I think this because I own a full set of "Minnesota History" magazine hardbound by year but since it became on-line searchable, I never open those volumes.

K. [*yes. I know]

[arkuat]

It's just a sentimental attachment, and my fantasy has a strong nostalgia component.

[arkuat]

Also, when I watched that Star Trek episode that included a dude who had an actual library of deadtree books in the 25th c. or whatever, I imprinted on it way more heavily than was good for me.

[pameladean]

Ohh, the full-size multi-volume one! Indeed the stuff that dreams are made on! We have the two-volume version, but at some point I managed to lose the magnifying glass and we now have to be content with a Museum Company replica of a Victorian magnifier intended for the better appreciation of various items of natural history.

P.

[arkuat]

I used to have the two-volume set, with magnifying glass, but I think I gave it to Sunah during a move at some point. I really do like the 2nd edition a lot better, and not just because it's more up-to-date (I really like the use of IPA for the pronunciations).

[arkuat]

And yeah, a circular glass is really not the thing for the transistorized OED.

[pameladean]

I've never checked to see whether a replacement is available. I should do that. The Victorian glass pleases me, but it's not very efficient. Well, unless I want to look at beetles.

P.

[minnehaha]

I really don't know how to think about this. I want to go out, but won't go to a restaurant if I must wear a mask, because that seems terrible and stupid.

K.

[dreamshark]

I think you are allowed to take your mask off to eat. I don't mind wearing a mask to walk in and order.

The closest Richard and I have been to "dining in" was when we ate at the Como Pavilion on our trip to Como Park a couple of weeks ago. We actually went inside a cavernous and largely empty room to place orders at the counter, which we did with masks on. Then I went out to the even more cavernous outdoor terrace while Richard (who was fully vaxed at that point) waited for our orders. Then we took our masks off to eat, offending nobody because there was nobody within 50 feet of us. It was SO EXCITING!

[davidwilford]

Now that I'm fully vaccinated I'm getting on a plane and flying to Florida in about two weeks to see my sisters and my mother. (I drove to Florida back in January and it's a looooong drive for one person to make.)

[maruad]

Gratz on the immunity.

I got my first jab yesterday and other being sleepy a lot and the odd minor ache, I am fine. S qualified today so she booked and will get hers on May 2nd. Poor T being the young man that he is will still be on the inside looking out for quite a long time I am afraid.

If everyone in our household gets vaccinated then I will be volunteering/attending the Winnipeg Folk Festival's 3 day single stage concert in August. Fingers are crossed here.

[minnehaha]

I've wondered about that event... will the border be open?

K.

[maruad]

I have no idea. We have fallen far behind the USA in regards to number of people vaccinated mostly because we don't produce our own. All I can suggest is keep an eye open. There has been a remarkable resistance to opening the US/Can border from most Canadians that was based on what was happening with the previous administration. At this point in time, I don't know that the US wants people coming into the US from Canada. Ontario is in terrible trouble and the prairies (who also have moronic Conservative governments) are not all that far behind. Generally, you can tell how stupid people are by how they vote (no big surprise).