Persistence make things happen. I persisted, then I got my vaccine appointment, which will be on Friday, March 26th. The excitement came to me at the moment when I was told “your appointment is confirmed, congratulation!”, then disappeared quickly. I have been walking outside almost every day since the outbreak of the pandemic back to Mar of 2020. My life will not be quite different after vaccination, but I have to worry about the upcoming side-effects. The chance of getting severe reaction is minor, I have no food allergy, no drug allergy…, I bought lottery but never won a penny back. I am not an extremely lucky person, most probably I will be as same as the majority, either no reactions or having mild reactions. I comforted myself.
Based on local news, 50% of people age over 45 have been vaccinated in CT, such high vaccination rate shocked me. I shared my thought with one of my neighbors, a guy at age of 60s. He said it doesn’t surprised him. He was born and grow up here. CT people’s personality lead to the current outcome. "We are well-educated, we believe science , we learn and accept new things, we are people who having common sense! We are neither extremely right, nor left. We are low-key people, we do things really good to the country, the society and the communites. not for attracting people’s eyeballs."
I nodded with laugher. “I definitely agree with what you said!” I saw the traits from governor Ned Lamont who is an excellent leader in the pandemic.
Just a day after our conversation, I heard an interview from CT public radio station. “CT set a good example in dealing with this covid-19 crisis……
Since March 20th, the first day of spring, We have been going through three warm spring days with the highest inland temperature at 60F, shoreland at 50F, today will be another warm spring day with slight shower in the afternoon. Our Chinese have a saying that the rain in spring is as precious as oil. Today’s rain will be a start, I am looking forward the coming of more spring rains.
回复 'ibelieu' 的评论 : Thank you again for your sharing! so some people were born with an insatiable thirst for publicity. "The most dangerous place is between Blumenthal and a camera.""so funny!
"Broken Chinese", the first time I heard. I learned,Thanks!
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回复 '魏薇' 的评论 : Thank you for your kind words. The Connecticut Attorney General's Office was my employer for 30 years until my retirement in 2017. I served two attorneys general during my time there, first Richard Blumenthal, who is a US senator now, and then George Jepsen, who has been replaced by William Tong and is now in private practice. Blumenthal was known for his political ambition and insatiable thirst for publicity when he was attorney general. We had a saying when he was our boss: "The most dangerous place is between Blumenthal and a camera." Jepsen studied Chinese in Taiwan in his younger days. I was quite surprised when he started speaking broken Chinese to me during his first visit to my department. To set himself apart from his predecessor, Jepsen declared during his very first meeting with us that he would not seek any other political office once he was done there. I knew Tong was going to run for Attorney General, but never had a chance to meet him as I had retired when he assumed the office.
回复 '冻爷' 的评论 : Thanks for your correction! I thought about should I use " makes or make..." I didn't do further research about this before I rushly have it posted.
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回复 'ibelieu' 的评论 :
I visited your blog and found out you are an attorney which made me think about CT’s attorney general William Tong. I listened his interview on CT public radio station days ago. It’s my great honor to have you visit my blog and wrote down your reviews. Your personal stories recalled me of Thomas Edison’s saying “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration”.
Thanks for sharing your experiences in vaccination registration. I heard there are various ways of vaccine registration, like CDC website, vaccine hotline, pharmacy stores’ websites… I registered thought CVS website. As you said, the process is quite simple and there are a lot of availabilities on time and place. Being a CT resident, I am also proud of CT’s leadership in dealing with the pandemic. :)
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我英文水平有限，需要消化。但看到你的水仙，北美的品种真结实！ 感谢分享
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Persistence makes...
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I agree with you that Connecticut has done an excellent job in rolling out the vaccine. :) Once it’s a group’s turn, people in that group can easily register for the shots on a state run portal and are presented with plenty of choices of time, place and variety of vaccine. Numerous in-state medical providers who offer primary care have taken upon themselves to help with the rollout effort by sending email notices to qualified people and running their own portals for registration. I also live in Connecticut, and am very proud of the job the state has done in dealing with the pandemic.
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回复 '梅华书香' 的评论 : 很高兴小记对梅华有帮助!
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回复 '吴友明' 的评论 : 吴老师也有很多好习惯，我们大家相互学习！
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回复 'TJKCB' 的评论 : Thank you for your correction! I totally agree with you. :)
