plus the flu vaccine. The COVID shot was the Pfizer/BioNTech version.
So far, the COVID injection site's a little sore, but no other side effects. My partner was knocked out by the booster or flu jag for a day or so when she had them a couple of weeks ago, but she'd also had a bout of COVID (which I miraculously escaped, possibly thanks to stringently following the recommended precautions plus a good deal of luck) about six weeks earlier, followed a few weeks later by some sort of non-COVID (according to the LFT tests) virus that floored both of us for about a week. My partner said it made her feel worse than the COVID.
I wasn't very impressed with the organization this time. The local papers advertised the clinic in our local village hall, but the Scottish government site's questionnaire said my demographic wouldn't be eligible till 24 October. There was confusion about how to figure out getting vaccinated. For past vaccinations, our GP surgery has phoned us to book us in. This time, thanks to information we only found because my partner has a Facebook account, it ended up that I had to email the national administrators, but in the end they replied with an appointment impressively quickly.
When I turned up at the village hall, there was a masked guy outside checking whether people had an appointment, as they couldn't cater for walk-ins. I then queued inside the door, where an unmasked woman took my details, then told me to go into the main hall. It's quite large, but inside there were three rows of about ten seats each spaced quite closely together where we were expected to sit and wait our turn. I'd say only about half of the 15-20 of us waiting were masked, and of the other officials who were buzzing around, only a few were masked. It's the closest I've sat to a bunch of strangers for any length of time in over two years, which made me uncomfortable.
The nurse who administered the shots was great, and I was out of there within about 20 minutes of arriving.
I'm glad to have the shots, but I'd rather not have had to risk a COVID spreader event to get them!
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