COVID-19 Check-In Thread Part III

[Dragonflight]

Still waiting here. We're apparently not considered as high-risk, or we just don't fall into the same age range by like, a few years. So I wait until the shots are available here. My parents have had their first, which is good news. I'm still dealing with paranoid roommates, unfortunately. The one with the ongoing cancer treatment has had bloodwork just last week which proved that the cells in the immune system which are trained by the vaccines to resist the disease are still completely missing from him. A side effect of his chemo treatments, which he can't realistically ever stop. So he's at critical risk at all times.

Which raises a major moral and ethical question. If he can catch it even if my other roommate and I are immune, but can still become carriers, Can we *ever* leave the house again? Sure, preventing us is an illegal move on his part, but on the other hand, he might remain permanently "at-risk." And of course, he's highly paranoid, and convinced if any of us step outside, we're basically intentionally signing his death warrant.

<sigh> What I wouldn't give to be able to afford to move out right now...

Edit: Oh, wow, Doug Ford (the provincial Premier) is really going full-tilt with medical politics now. He's designated some postal regions as being so severely hit that anyone over the age of 18 can get a shot there. Sounds good in principle, right? Except that the postal regions he's targeted are among the lowesst affected regions in the province. The reason?

Well, it appears that all but one of them are the cornerstones of his political opponents' power bases. The last one is the richest single neighborhood in Toronto.

This one act of naked political pandering with critical medical supplies ought to get this man lynched. But this is Ontario. I doubt anyone will do anything about it.