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I put off registering for vaccination because I didn’t want to navigate the bureaucracy and I was waiting for the other vaccines to become available. I did not want to be in a crowd (even in non-pandemic times I am socially distant). Through my friend I signed up with a private provider whose Moderna stocks are supposed to arrive in June. I have hypertension (genes) which seems to have vanished with the deadline-chasing (advantage of finally focusing on fiction), but I’m on meds and in a priority group.
Last week friends started pushing me to get vaccinated because there were plenty of vaccines, not enough people signing up for them, and it was easy. Dorski pointed out that when the vaccine lists open up it might be harder to get an appointment. If you don’t get the kind you want, just get a booster later.
Klara and The Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Probably because I have been languishing in enforced isolation for 13 months, though it must be said that I am antisocial by nature and therefore comfortable in isolation as long as I have the option to go out (and at the time I wrote this I had not gone out in 7 weeks); probably because I have had to live vicariously through books and movies and place upon them the burden of liberating me from this long sentence of sameness and claustrophobia; probably because I am a great admirer of Kazuo Ishiguro and have been looking forward to a new novel from him for several years (and I disliked The Buried Giant even before I read the withering review/scolding by Ursula Le Guin); and probably because Artificial Intelligence is no longer a science-fiction concept but a banal reality (Are we not all programmed by algorithms now?), no longer something to fear (Terminator) but a potential solution to the arrogant human bumbling that has brought the world to th
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