23 July, 2021
Sydney has been in lockdown for nearly a month now, and today is the
highest daily total so far, 136 new cases, with 50 cases infectious in the
community, which is more infected people out in the community than ever before.
Looks like there are lots of idiots still roaming around in the community. Furthermore,
NSW Health’s ongoing sewage surveillance program has detected fragments of the
virus that causes COVID-19 at sewage treatment plants at West Lindfield. It is
the first ever detection at the West Lindfield sewage network, which serves the
areas where I live and work. Furthermore, medical practices and even COVID
vaccination centres have had cases of people of COVID coming in and getting
turned into hot spots. So I believe I do have a much higher chance of exposure
to COVID than the rest of the population since I work in a medical practice
that is also a COVID vaccination centre which has just given out 156 vaccines last weekend!
My obstetrician is inclining towards me having the vaccine this time,
saying he doesn’t think it will be harmful and is comfortable with me having
it. He says if there is no signs of the numbers going down in the next 1-2
weeks then I should really have it. He also mentions that there are many third
trimester women who are sitting on the fence about this, because 32 weeks is when a baby
can be delivered relatively safely if one really does catch COVID and they had
to deliver the baby prematurely.
Meanwhile, further changes have been made with the national COVID vaccination
guidelines today. Pfizer has been approved for 12-15 year-olds, and all pregnant
women have been shifted into the category 1b of the rollout, meaning all
pregnant women can choose to get vaccinated now.
The Australia NZ travel bubble is now suspended for two months. Meanwhile,
there is news saying NSW will not get any extra Pfizer supply so second doses
of Pfizer could be delayed in NSW. This news is what tipped me over towards
having the vaccine. Seriously, I don’t want to end up not being able to get the
vaccine at a time when I may really need it.
Meanwhile, my husband went on a nonstop tirade at 2am about not wanting
me to have the vaccine because he thinks the risk of catching COVID is too low
to justify accepting the risk of the unknown long term effects of Pfizer and
refused to shut up until things turned very ugly. I ended up not getting any
sleep and going for the vaccine in a very angry and suboptimal state.
24 July, 2021
Received my Pfizer dose 1 at my clinic at 1:18pm. Stayed in the clinic
for 20 minutes post vaccine, nothing happened, not even any soreness at the
injection site!
Meanwhile, cases continue to rise, with 163 new cases, and thousands of
idiots are out in the Sydney CBD protesting about the lockdown today. We’ve
only just managed to not get an exponential increase in new case numbers, but
after this protest, who knows.
3:30pm: Sleepy, not sure if it was from the lack of sleep or the effect
of the vaccine, and took a nap.
6:55pm: Woke up from nap, quite fatigued, felt a bit cold, and had a mild
sore throat. Symptoms subsided a few minutes after waking up.
