What’s Your Date For Returning to the World?

Get your social calendars ready

That picture up there, it’s not just further evidence that there is no such thing as a flattering vaccine selfie. It’s a photo of me, your humble author, getting his first shot of the Moderna vaccine on Monday evening. (Your author also feels obliged to point out that the hoop behind his left ear is from the mask and is not an earring, despite what you may have heard on social media.) The shot was easy and simple, and I haven’t had a single side effect, other than people on social media seeing a hoop behind my left ear and thinking I’m wearing an earring.

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the experience of Vaccine FOMO, that sensation, unique to this specific month, of feeling as if everyone around you is getting a life-saving, transformative vaccine and you’re somehow missing out on the entire party. I am happy to say that we are already starting to transition out of that period. There are still plenty of people who want vaccines and can’t get them, but they are dwindling, and over the next month, with the tsunami of vaccines coming, there may not be many left at all. You can track your state’s eligibility requirements right here, but in a month, those requirements are going to be “anyone over the age of 16,” essentially everywhere. This is not to say our vaccine problems will be solved by…