![]() ![]() Judah, on the other hand, who had become increasingly nervous as the time for the shot, and the realization that there was no way out of it, approached, howled. (“We got to see mermaids!” my granddaughter later enthused.) We were allowed to go in together, and were assigned to one with an Under the Sea theme. When we got there, the very kind workers took our information and sent us past the plain adult booths to the cartoon-bedecked kids’ section. The vaccines are by appointment only, but it’s easy to get an appointment online the shots are in demand, but there doesn’t seem to be the frantic desperation that overcame us adults when our vaccines first were released. Most of it still is for adults, but there’s been a section that’s been set apart for kids. We took them to the old Sears building in the Livingston Mall I’d never been there when it was a store, but the ghost of retail past lurked in its corners and wafted across its vast open spaces. On the other hand, I am neither 8 nor 5, as my grandchildren are.īecause my son-in-law had work engagements he could not break, and both he and my daughter wanted to get the kids vaccinated as soon as possible, I volunteered to be the second adult. I found that the people who give shots are sweet, kind, careful, and solicitous. ![]() When I finally screwed up my courage to get a flu shot, a few years ago, I realized that my childhood memories of huge needles and the monstrous nurses who wielded them were a total invention. But really, a pill would have been so much easier. The vaccine turns them into little fake-spike-manufacturing factories. Now that we’ve all read more about how they work, I have a better understanding of why the mRNA gets shot into arm muscles. They don’t necessarily hurt - although certainly sometimes they do - but they seem as if they would, terribly, all the time. Get The Jewish Standard Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories But I do admit to wishing that while they were busy inventing the medication, how lovely it would have been had the scientists gone just a bit further and come up with some other, better delivery device. ![]()
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