Mr NYC is Fully Vaxxed

Some good news -- yours truly got the second shot of the Moderna vaccine and, in two weeks, will be 95% protected from COVID-19.

Many thanks to the Kings Pharmacy on the Upper East Side for making it so easy. I strongly recommend using them if you can. Right now the side-effects are a very sore arm, sluggishness, and some body chills. Hopefully that'll be all and go away soon but who knows?

This is a singular moment in history for all of us.

Getting this vaccine not only protects ourselves but everyone else from the virus. It is our small fight, our sortee, in the greater world-wide war against this killer. If each of us does this one small thing, eventually one of the greatest achievements in humanity -- ending this pandemic -- will happen.

And we will all have been soliders in the fight!

I don't know about you but I felt, after getting the vaccine, that it's like graduating from school or losing your virginity -- it's something you imagine, dream about, think about, wonder about, for a long, long, long, long, long, long time before it happens and then ... when it does happen ... you're both releaved and grateful ... and then ... you experience a weird mental and emotional senstation -- you've done this big, life-altering thing, your status in the world has changed, but ... you're still the same person as before ... life goes on ... everything else is relatively the same ... the world hasn't exploded, the media isn't blaring your glorious victory to the masses, no one is handing you an award or pinning a medal to your chest ... you still have to do your laundry, go grocery shopping, the subway is still crowded, you gotta pay the bills, the weather changes as usual ... and then it becomes your new normal. 

So it's a small, quiet triumph for all of us to get fully vaxxed, an achievement that we don't see (although we feel it, oh boy!) but that will, in the time, improve our lives and change the whole world for the better!