I don’t think you’re looking at 6 months. Even if the city continues to be a mess, places will quit with the residency requirements and you can go get your shot with a zip car before much longer. A month, maybe less.
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I’m curious why you’re both still disinfecting grocery delivery - everything I’ve seen is that it doesn’t carry on surfaces at all, and there’s little to no chance of infection from surfaces.
Do I have it wrong?
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I agree with this. If anyone wants, I can recount the shots of everyone I have direct accounts from. I’m nosy and asked all my family and close friends lol.
I’m mostly still wiping things down, but I’m less diligent.
I’ve always done a of disinfecting in the winter but because I don’t want to get the flu (and working in a school means being exposed to every thing that comes along. I spent a lot of time wiping stuff down with bleach water there, too.)
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I quit when a couple of studies came out suggesting surfaces were far less of a risk than we’d thought originally, but then right after another study came out contradicting that. Plus I caught something else nasty that caused my NP to say “I can’t believe your test was negative!” So I just decided the research is still new enough, and bleach is cheap enough, that I was going to continue until I was fully vaccinated.
Hang on and I’ll locate that followup study that started me back on the disinfecting routine. I posted it here somewhere or other, so hopefully I can find it again.
Edit:
@anomalily here’s where I posted the followup study and BBC article that led me to it. That was October, and I haven’t seen anything since to resolve the apparent conflict.
https://forum.ohmydollar.com/t/rural-has-no-student-loans-public-service-loan-forgiveness/1633/335?u=rural
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I have forwarded your stuff to Mr. Meer. He doesn’t really “hear” (“read”? “see”?) it though, his monkey brain still has us wiping stuff. 
He was also against me getting physical library books for Kiddo until I said I’d let them sit in the car for two days after bringing them home before bringing them into the house.
If I can get him past this, maybe he’d be okay with us going on a particular beach vacation this summer that we’ve done before. I would love to do this vacation, we had to cancel it last year because at that point it still seemed like a moving target to figure out how exactly covid was spreading.
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Resting side by side does not work with the little ones in the house. One of us is unavailable for rest.
All my coworkers husbands had really bad side effects, and all are similar age and in good physical condition. Most of the men at his work also had really bad side effects.
But I never leave the house, so am much lower risk than he is, since he works outside the home and does our shopping.
Plus I haven’t even had time to look for an appt, since it took him 4 days of basically 8 hours refreshing all day at work.
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Ah, yes, little ones does change the equation, sorry. Hope you find one soon for about a week after his.
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Oh yes there are other viruses 
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I’m going by what the mayor and the Chicago director of public health (or whatever her title is) are saying, based on the supply they expect to receive. It would be nice if it were sooner but I am not getting my hopes up.
It’s mostly a better-safe-than-sorry for me at this point, especially because no matter how hard I try, I am still terrible about not touching my face and eyes.
Though I do disinfect or quarantine (depending how soon I need it) most mail and packages. But that’s because I have the advantage/disadvantage of my home office directly overlooking our front stoop, so I get to see the mask compliance of our mail carriers and delivery people (that would be close to zero) and I’ve lost count of how many of them have had a huge unmasked coughing fit all over my stuff.
We’re moving to 1C on March 29. (The city! Not just the state!)
That… is still not me. But, progress. Forward movement. Up until a couple days ago the city was saying they couldn’t move forward with 1C due to lack of supply. So I’m glad to see that’s no longer the case, even if I still can’t get one.
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I tried to give blood in the fall and chose the window when they announced they would test them all and you would get to find out. I really wanted to know if I had antibodies.
They couldn’t get enough blood out of me - wasting their time, mine. Because of that, I never found out (they chucked what they had taken as they couldn’t use it).
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I’ve given blood twice since they started testing for antibodies and both times was negative.
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ah darn. i haven’t been able to give blood for most of my life because of one or multiples of below:
- weigh too little 2) having sex with men who have sex with men 3) tattoos 4) now enbrel
they just don’t want my damn blood.
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I get that! (I’ve also failed on the hemoglobin some years ago).
ETA: I also failed on account of traveling to the UK back when the mad cows were a thing.
They relaxed a lot of the look back on MSM (and adjacent sex having partners) rules this past year because of shortages and COVID. Of course, the whole thing is discriminatory nonsense.
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number 2 really pisses me off, I hate that that is a reason to not take blood.
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They changed it in 2020 or 2019.
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I didn’t know that they changed it! That’s great (/dumb that they had to do it in the first place).
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You still can’t be currently sexually active (I just filled out the questions because I’m donating in 45 minutes), but the time limit is down to 3 months.
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