One thing about closure is that you don’t know much about what is going on around you.  I’m tired of talking to people on the phone, on zoom, even of looking out the window at who’s taking a walk down the street.  I know that my grandchildren are all in school, but I have no idea of how it feels to go back there and whether the teachers are terrified of catching something.

So I announced on facebook that we are half-vaccinated.  And what I discovered was that many of my equally silent friends have also been vaccinated and were not sure who to tell.  The estimate is that by tomorrow there will be half a million people.  Out of a population of – it turns out – almost 9 million, that’s not bad.

Was anyone sick after the vaccine? I asked my friends who had written me.  “Eh,” was the majority response.  “A little soreness, maybe a bit more tiredness.  In short: Eh.”  This from a population of kvetchers.