Friday, January 29, 2021

CoVid 19

 I received my first CoVid19 shot today, the second will be on Feb. 22nd. It is a relief, now MsBubba needs hers.

My last day to work will be March 31st. The month of April will be covered with PTO pay and official retirement day is May first. 

My program is the Old Farts club of the Tucson Center and has been very stable for the last ten years. Not so this year, most of the OF are retiring within a few months of each other. In some ways it is good because it will bring in new blood, folks that have actually flown an airplane in the last year or two and know how the current system works. The bad is a lot of knowledge is walking out the door almost at once.

ken   

13 comments:

  1. enjoy and I'm not far behind you

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    1. Ralph,

      It's been a long time coming. I'm finely ready for it and looking forward to the time away from airplanes.

      ken

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  2. Excellent news!
    I'm scheduled for my first shot before January.

    January 2022 that is. Ah, the joys of not being in a high-risk or front-line category :D

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    1. Mark,

      Yeah, I've been really worried about the way the pandemic has been going. Kinda like Vietnam I didn't want to be the last to die for our government fuck up.

      ken

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  3. The big pharma are making fun of us, not delivering the quantities according to the contract and making scandalous profit; while the research has benefited from public funds.
    So when my wife and I will get our shot is uncertain.

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    1. Sylvain,

      Some of the problem is just logistics, the shear size of distribution but also incompetence of Trump and his government. I found out I could get my shot at a facility that was on the other side of town at 1745 and the window was open between 1800 and 1830. I made it with a couple of minutes to spare after a wild ride through traffic.

      I'm hoping the governments of the world can get their act together, it is a big problem and will take smart people to fix.

      ken

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  4. Congrats Ken and about time :-)
    I retired by the airbase so lots of planes flying around me. I still crank my neck up to see them when i hear them and probably will do do forever, ever since i was a kid i've done do :-)
    I can tell most planes by their noises. The Aurora (heavily Canadianized P3) and the Hercules have same engine Allison T56, but the herc has them slung under the wings and the P3 over the wing. Does not sound the same, slight differences:-) i still see my beloved jets, CF18 they come here often, Greenwood being a DOB for them. Never got tired of hearing the sound of Freedom. And i get to have the occasional drink with my old boys.
    So yah, retired amd not missing my planes:-)

    Good luck in retirement, you wont regret it

    Bob, who at tje raye we ate getting short changed on vaccines delivery could be a while yet for me :-(

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    1. Bob,

      I never thought the day would come when I would be ready but it did.

      MsBubba is in the next group to get the vaccine, we hope within the next few weeks.

      ken

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  5. @#$ typos and no way to correct them. Crap

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  6. My wife working at the hospital got her first shot a week ago. As of today she is fine but still I ask her to sleep in the shed in the backyard (-25 las night) just to be cautious. Only thing I noticed is that she prefers her meat raw now.

    Lionel who is of course just joking, she got her shot and she is fine and I am happy the way it is :)

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    1. Lionel,

      Too funny. We talked about my living in the motorhome while this was going on because I was still working. MsBubba being a nurse knows how to protect herself and has done a good job of it. Myself, so far just lucky.

      ken

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  7. My daughter is a doctor (infectiologue). She has been contaminated (end of October) not at the hospital but by her partner (he had symptoms before her). It wasn't severe and they are fine.
    I am not young but not old enough to get my shot before medical personnel ;-)

    Now the Astra Zeneca vaccine becomes available but its effectivity is not demonstrated on people older than 55 years. So some younger people, lower in the priority list, will get their shot before me.

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