The Vaccine And The Longest Queue Ever
I got my first dose of my vaccine this afternoon inside a mall, and it was an experience so harrowing I wish I would never go through again. Lol. I wasn’t in a hurry to get vaccinated but somebody needed to accompany my niece (she belongs to the A4 category which includes essential and informal workers) who already wanted to be vaccinated, so off I volunteered to escort her (and get vaccinated already as well). The A5 category (the indigent sector) would soon be included in the vaccination, so I expect the process to be a little more chaotic—a fact that helped me decide to already get the vaccine.
I went to bed at around twelve midnight (after watching two episodes of Trese on Netflix) but only succeeded to get only around one hour of sleep before I got out of bed at around 4:30 AM. We didn’t have any breakfast and the last time we ate was at six PM the previous day, and the venue was already jam-packed with people wanting to be protected from the coronavirus when we got there at five fifteen in the morning, carrying our QR code/waiver form.
We got vaccinated at 2:45 PM.
Yes, we stood in line from five fifteen in the morning up to two forty-five in the afternoon—that was almost ten hours of queuing. It rained early in the morning, and later, the sun appeared to try to toast us.
It was a blind vaccination so we didn’t know what vaccine we would have until the last minute. (LGUs are now prohibited to announce the type of vaccine to be administered beforehand.) And when the nurse finally asked me if it was okay for me to get the not-so-highly touted Sinovac vaccine, I almost replied, “No, please, it’s not okay, I prefer Pfizer or Moderna or AstraZeneca or anything, except Sinovac.”
But I was so sleepy and tired and disoriented and had eaten only a small sandwich the whole time that I could only whisper, “Yes, inject me with whatever you have there, you can even inject me with Satan’s sperm, so I could give birth to the new Anti-Christ who will infect us with a demonic, deadlier virus no vaccine could prevent, so let’s just get over this and done with.”
But seriously, a lot of people, including WHO, are now testifying to the efficacy of two doses of Sinovac to protect you from dying of COVID-19, or even having a severe case.
Only exact two thousand vaccines are available today at the mall (more than three thousand people showed up for it) and I got the number 1998, with my niece getting 1997), meaning, if four people woke up earlier than us and got to the venue a few seconds ahead of us, we’d be eliminated and would go home empty-handed. A lot of people were reportedly already at the place at around midnight. The man who got the 2000th position became an instant celebrity.
And now the waiting game begins, should I get side effects from the vaccine, side effects so adverse that it will make me want to eat people’s brains?
Just kidding. I’m fine and drtwkxkmaghlafgsikfiegp6475ol2-------------------
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