49 people who were fully vaccinated have died of COVID in N.J. Here's what we know.

[Larissa]

50. Your description is dead on

. . . and chilling. When we've dicked around deciding what to do, the virus gets busy reinventing itself like the shape-shifter in the sci-fi flick, "The Thing." I received my vaccines on February/March 25th. The supposed date the immunity kicked in was April 8th. (BTW, it was Moderna.) If I've got a good six months of immunity from that date, then I'd need to be thinking about getting the booster in September's neighborhood. (Israel is doing this now.) When government and other officials learned that Pfizer was already prepping the works for the booster, they seemed displeased. That it would look poorly on America that we were hogging vaccines while some countries hadn't seen the first shot.

This thread is freaking me out. I'm in New Jersey. Governor Murphy put the state on police enforced lock-down from March 21st through June 9th, 2020. The lock-down flattened the hump of the infection curve like nobody's business. It was amazing. Even after the lock-down ended, mask protocol was strictly enforced and only certain businesses were opened. I've been wearing face masks for roughly a year and a half now. I've gotten so used to wearing them that I actually forget they're on.

And now Delta.