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Covid-19 vaccinations are in full swing now. Many states are continuing to lower the age minimum as well as widen the conditions that make one eligible for vaccinations. Many people who are disabled (including myself), however, are continuously annoyed that it took about 4–8 weeks from the very beginning for many of us to even be eligible (despite being high risk in regards to covid-19). For myself, it took what felt like about 2 months post initial opening to the public for vaccinations (I live in GA, USA) to finally be deemed eligible by the state (despite having survived a blood cancer and having an autoimmune condition).
However, this isn’t the end. For many of us, we are continued to be forced to do remote work (little to no face-to-face contact with clients relating to work) because even the ‘best’ vaccines still have about a 10–20% risk of infection. If we do get the virus, there’s a large unknown risk of having it trigger other serious, potentially fatal problems. For myself, there is the very real risk of it triggering a different type of cancer (and/or dramatically increase my likelihood of cancer somewhere down my life). We have to wait until the majority of the population gets vaccinated in order to return to working face to face with people.
This also brings up the problem of job searching. Unfortunately, for many fields, working “remote” is only an option…
