COVID is coming for California, and it's already hitting the SF Bay Area the hardest

Just had it again 2 weeks ago. Nothing much more than a very mild flu. I have all my vax and boosters for covid and flu.

It was nbd. Probably because I have all my shots. I still didn’t want it though. There’s always a chance I could still get f’d, draw the short straw, and get long covid or worse. Good friend of mine, super healthy, worked out, relatively young, stroked out after months of long covid. Almost died a couple times. Took better part of a year to come back, luckily he’s still himself but has a hard time with numbers, gets tired and frustrated more quickly.

He had all his shots and boosters, too.

It’s still out there, people. It’s not a joke. You could still draw the shitty short straw in this gamble and get wrecked even if you did everything right.

Be careful out there.

Based on having read this same SFGate article about five days ago, I made an online appointment for a booster shot at a Safeway store's pharmacy, semi local to me in San Francisco. My previous booster was circa last November so it had been more than six months, and the recent news stories about a surge of covid detected in the city's sewer outflows and also a general rising wave of cases locally seemed to give good reason to stay on the six month program rather than wait until it had been a year.

The appointment was easily made online, but the pharmacy telephoned me and told me their advice was to just wait closer to a year unless I was over 65 or immune compromised. Neither applies so I cancelled the shot.