The US Food and Drug Administration approved new vaccines for Covid-19 last week. The recommendation from the CDC is that basically everyone goes avail themselves of them, aside from anyone with any specific health conditions that preclude it one assumes.

These vaccines are a lot more effective than the previous set against the latest strains of Covid that are circulating around. These newer variants are causing something of a new wave of Covid cases, albeit one substantially less harmful to most people to what we saw in the early days of the pandemic. But it’s not less harmful to everyone; people are still dying of it, and that’s before we get onto the horror-show of life-altering risks that Long Covid can entail.

Personally I could wish I’d have had one of vaccines a few weeks ago, having gotten quite ill recently - but without travelling through time and space it wasn’t really an option.