Fully vaccinated!

Fully vaccinated now! I understand I have to wait a couple weeks for the full impact, but the second jab has been received. Oddly, I don’t feel anywhere near as euphoric and happy as I did after the first jab. I suppose that is understandable, the jabs are quite common now. Nevertheless I do feel a calm sense of relief that I can put the past year and half behind me. So looking forward to engaging in ‘normal’ social discourse again. It will be most unusual, the first time I do go into a pub or restaurant and rub shoulders with the masses. That might even be happening by early July, given we are exceeding all the so-called phased targets well in advance of the original plan. Tourists are trickling back. Bit by bit we are reclaiming our lives. Will there be a joyous Canada Day celebration? I’m proudly flying the flags, but even I have to admit that following the most recent finding of 751 unmarked graves in Saskatchewan, the year 2021 July 1st celebration will likely pass without too much fanfare. The blood shed by our ancestors is coming back to haunt us. Oh Canada!

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