Why yes! I DID get the fourth shot
And it didn't hurt a bit
On Monday night, I got re-boosted — or, rather, I got my fourth COVID shot, whatever the proper language is around this common sense move to avoid a virus that can kill you.
Interestingly enough, this go-round was no big whup, compared to my other three shots. I got the first one in March 2021 at a field house on Yale University’s campus, and the event had an almost holy feel to it. Those of us who stood in line were polite and excited and super-chatty (understandable, as most of us had been in our bunkers for nearly a year), and afterward, we all sat for precisely 15 minutes while health care professionals walked around to make sure we were all OK. The second time was the exact same thing, though the line was longer and it was a cold April day. I remember a man in a bright pink Izod shirt who was immensely energetic conversation companion. I have thought of him often in these last few months, and hope he and his family are hale and hearty.
After my booster in November, I drove home in a little snow storm feeling like I’d dodged a bullet. There was no line, and no chatty men in pink shirts.
This time, I showed up, vaccination and insurance cards in hand as the email suggested, but the nice lady who gave me my shot only asked for my vaccination card. A minute later, having been shot, I asked if I needed to hang around to make sure I had no reaction, and the nice lady said “Sure, if you’d like.”
I waited for two minutes and then drove home. I had zero reaction, including no sore arm. So far, my husband and my grandson both have both contracted COVID, though both were vaccinated. I’ve been on a college campus since August 2020, and thus have been exposed more times than I can count. I am also around grandchildren whom I’d like to keep healthy. I’m as mean as a snake, but I don’t want to infect even the people whose insides I can’t stand.
When people go on Twitter and ask if any one is getting get the fourth shot, I never answer because it’s a stupid question. I will get the 5th, 6th, and 7th shot, as many shots as it takes because throughout this mess, science has been my friend. If COVID is in my future — and I assume I will one day catch it — I want its visit to be brief and boring.
Oh, and this: Go, Team Pfizer.
Got my fourth on Monday also. Slightly sore arm. All better by this morning. No other ill effects except for the way metal objects keep flying toward me when I walk through the kitchen. Just like you, I told Lori I would happily get one twice a year for the rest of my life. That way when I see some racist, homophobic idiots protesting whatever it is they will dream up next, I will be able to use my laser eye beams on them.
I got mine yesterday, and like you, I will be in line for 5, 6, 7, 8 .... however long they keep coming . I spend a lot of time with two adult daughters who are immunocompromised. Any thing I can do to minimize their risk, I will do.