I made a bunch of travel plans and reservations for later in the year — from the summer on. Hopefully things will be great then and we can travel without concern.
Things seem to be going back to normal little by little. I can sort of tell by the bay activity. What I mean is, I live on the bay, and I remember seeing so much activity in the water during the early days of the pandemic — people kayaking, paddle boarding and so much more, on a daily basis. Now I don’t see that much anymore. I guess now that people are out and about, they aren’t feeling trapped and bored, although all that fun and healthy activity seemed to do them good when they were feeling trapped and bored.
I did create a lot of cartoons which were covid-based — regarding masks, social distancing, working from home, and so on.
I keep seeing on the news that covid infections are dropping dramatically while vaccines are moving along. Many people I know were vaccinated, almost all getting both shots already, including my parents. I am anxious to get vaccinated. I have friends who are against it. But if the numbers of infections are dropping, something good is happening.
I’ve been asked many times if I got my shots. I am not quite sure how old people think I am. But I am nowhere near the age group that is being vaccinated currently.
I did sign up for a few waiting lists — like at Walgreens and CVS, so that when it opens up for the general public, I can get on the appointments list. My own doctor says he won’t have the vaccine for some reason, even though he always has the yearly flu shot.
Anyway, I am anxious to get on a plane again and get away. While last year seemed to fly by, it still was a long, anxious year. We are coming up on a year from when things started getting bad/serious. I remember watching Gov. Cuomo on tv every day, feeling calmed by his demeanor. I remember being afraid to leave the house for a month or so — getting food deliveries all the time.
I’m glad I blogged and cartooned a lot about it. I have it all recorded here in the archives and hopefully it will only live there and never in real life again.
You can see my comics at TomFalco.com, there are links to social media there, too, if you care to follow on a daily basis.
Originally published at tomversation.com on February 21, 2021.
