Back in January, I honestly believed I would not be eligible for vaccination until early Fall.

[Tommy Carcetti]

Maybe late Summer if I was really lucky.

And that was my thinking even taking into account the new administration coming in.

It's not even May and I've received both my shots. Signed up for an open water swim event next month that I wouldn't have dreamed of competing in if I wasn't vaccinated.

Do I give credit President Biden's leadership in helping to make this happen?

You damn well better believe I do.

[Peppertoo]

1. I'm one shot in & I did not expect it to be soon. Thank you President Biden.

[StClone]

26. I am going to brag!

On March 20, 2020 I sat in a small cafe near San Sebastian, Jalisco State, MX (our last time away from home!). I was deep into a Corona 19 update with a Family Dr also on my tour. I made the prediction to him that around the first of the year 2021, vaccines would be available to the high risk group, and by May 2021 we'd see widespread vaccines available. I was certain modern vaccine production would surprise everyone, and the thing of HIGH CONCERN was mutations. I impressed myself how good an estimate of the situational and its resolution I made.

[MLAA]

2. Same here.

Husband who is 25 years older got his in January. I too was hoping for end of summer. Then supply opened quickly and I got my second one on April Fool’s day....hmmm at least I think that’s the shot they gave me!

[tanyev]

3. Imagine the mess we would be in if Trump had gotten four more years.

It was too close.

[pandr32]

17. I can't

I find myself still recovering from the enormous stress his illegitimate presidency caused many.

[DSandra]

32. That's an understatement

I had to rack up a lot more debt that is still crushing me with only a small and painful hope of paying back. I know there are people far worse off than me that I don’t know how they survive while keeping their sanity.

[genxlib]

4. That is great news

The bad news is that part of the reasons we are open to everyone is that too many people are declining.

We will see where we end up but I think our trajectory will fall short of herd immunity.

It is time to see a big push to get the stragglers in.

[Irish_Dem]

5. That would have been the reality if Biden was not our president.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

6. Yes - a fellow water person. I've got both vax & am also back in the water.

Thank you President Biden. It's nice to have the good guys back in charge.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. Same here

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Under 50, work from home, low risk. Thought it would be mid to late Summer, I've been fully vaccinated for several weeks now.

Know this, if Trump were still President, that 235M doses given would probably be more like 60 Million and Trump would brag all day everyday that 60 Million is the greatest number ever and how no one thought it was possible. The vaccines were up and running in early December, there was no Federal plan so barely any shots got in arms until 2021, and when Biden took over only 15 million doses had been given. In 6 weeks, 15 million doses! In Biden's first 6 weeks we would give over 60 million doses.

And this isn't just a case of things taking a while to get rolling, Trump promised 20 million doses by January 1st, on that date we had given 2 million. It was entirely plausible that we would hav gotten to 20 Million by the end of 2020 with the bare minimum of competency from the Federal government. Could have easily been 75 million if Trump had lifted a finger by the time Biden took over.

We're at 42% of the country with at least 1 dose, if Trump had done anything we could easily be pushing 55% right now and at 55% cases would be plunging to nothing and deaths would be close behind. there are people dying today because Trump botched the vaccine distribution.

[patphil]

9. Trump is a hustler who knows how to give a good sales pitch.

But, he doesn't have the ability to follow through on anything. He's a terrible administrator!
I guess that comes from being a self-absorbed, ego-ridden, greedy, callous, jerk.
He's never cared about anything or anybody except as to how he could use things, situations, and people for his own ends.

And in spite of the horror show his 4 years as President was, 10's of millions of Americans love him. This says more about the mental deficiency, moral depravity, and spiritual bankruptcy of all those Americans than I wanted to know.

[littlemissmartypants]

13. He's a psychopath.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. I am pleased with the vaccine rollout also

[Ilsa]

10. I had guessed June, like a belated Mothers Day gift.

I'm thrilled that my household is now fully vaccinated.

THANK YOU PRESIDENT BIDEN & VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS!

[FakeNoose]

11. I believed I'd get vaccinated by this summer

... but it sure made a difference once Joe was in the White House! I got my first shot in March and my second by mid-April. My son and daughter-in-law are 50 and they've gotten vaccinated also. Anyone who doesn't get their shots by now, it's their own fault.

Thank you Joe Biden!

[Ace Rothstein]

12. The manufacturers took a bit of time to get supplies up.

Once they got there though they've been able to provide a consistent supply.

[Rebl2]

14. I think

a lot of us thought that.

[nuxvomica]

15. Biden's greatest weapon against the right wing

Is showing that government can do things, do 'em right, efficiently and ahead of time, while the right wing's very foundation is the canard that government can't get anything done. Oops there goes another right-winger rant.

[George II]

16. In February I thought it would be at least mid-summer for us. Watching the news, the thought...

...of standing in lines for hours was upsetting.

But I signed us up on several websites anyway.

Then about 6 weeks ago on a Thursday I got a call, "can your wife show up for an appointment on Saturday". She couldn't but they allowed me to take her spot. I was in and out in 8 minutes (plus the 15 minute wait afterward)

A week later I called a pharmacy that was giving the J&J because they only took live calls. Almost immediate appointments, my wife got her shot five days later.

Then two weeks ago I got my second shot.

We're done in mid-April, and I was despondent because I thought it would be June, July, or later.

Now almost 200 million Americans have gotten at least one shot, more than 25% of adults are fully vaccinated.

Yes, it's ALL on President Biden!

PS - in Connecticut there are now about 50 sites where people can walk in without appointments for the vaccine. There's a CVS less than a quarter mile from us offering it to walk-ins.

[ellie]

18. Me too!

I thought, maybe by July. I have one shot done and the next one scheduled for mid-May! Thank you Joe Biden!

[BobTheSubgenius]

19. I have only my first shot, so far, but I certainly share your joy!

[bottomofthehill]

20. What this President and Administration has done is amazing

Imagine if real professionals were running the show when this started over a year ago!

[bahboo]

21. I'm with ya...

Has been a huge improvement in mental outlook.

[Nasruddin]

22. I thought it would be in April

... but I wasn't sure which year
(that was back in Trump Time)

[SergeStorms]

23. I shudder to think...

what would be going on if the "other guy" were still in the White House. We'd be closing in on 1,000,000 deaths, or more, and vaccines would be doled out at glacial pace, with the wealthy areas of the country getting them first.
I do think the "other guy" would be telling people to get vaccinated, though. The only reason he's not doing it now is because he wants Joe Biden - the guy who beat him by 7 million votes - to fail. Ain't gonna' happen, lard butt, so you might want to try hanging on to a few of your supporters. Or don't, let them die, I don't really care. I just don't want them infecting sane people.

[barbtries]

24. you are correct to do so.

Leadership is a thing.

[Pobeka]

25. I thought it would be July for me. Going for my 2nd dose in a couple hours.

Totally give credit to Biden. Some "credit" is due to the anti-vaxxers though, made a shot available for me sooner than if we had 100% participation.

[Midnight Writer]

27. I recall in January someone had calculated it would take ten years at the then current rate

to vaccinate everyone.

[W_HAMILTON]

28. Using my state's timeline from earlier this year...

...I figured I wouldn't get vaccinated until late spring/early summer, but I just got my second and final shot of the Pfizer vaccine this morning! Woohoo!

THANK YOU PRESIDENT BIDEN!

[Mr. Evil]

29. I was thinking back in February that I would have to wait until June or so.

But, it shows that when you have a president that understands reality, has the ability to plan ahead and is an actual human being, I've already received both of my shots (Pfizer).

For those that refuse to be vaccinated (for whatever paranoid dumbass reason), I feel that they will come to regret their decision soon enough. Remember those disaster movies where people were warned about an impending disaster only to scoff at the information. The disaster happens and they all needlessly die. There have been plenty of them.

Art imitating life or life imitating art. Those doofuses are doomed!

[peppertree]

30. Well said. If it were still up to Cheeto, we'd have to fly to Isreal or Dubai to get any.

Since that's where those missing 20 million vaccines ended up (courtesy of Jared).

But goodbye Dubai - because now we've got surpluses of them.

I hardly know anyone who, willing to be vaccinated, hasn't gotten at least one dose.

[MyMission]

31. I got my 2nd dose yesterday

And I too thought it would be summer before I got one.

President Joe Biden rocks!

[DSandra]

33. Leadership Matters

The biggest lesson from the Trump era should be that leadership matters, putting an incompetent narcissist into the White House caused tons and tons and tons of needless suffering and death, and we almost lost our democracy as well. One of the stupidest things in this country since at least Reagan has been to not take the electing of the president very seriously.

[Neema]

34. I'm with you on every word of this post.

Well, except for the swim event. LOL. But yeah, I told myself not to expect it until October or November. And now I will be two weeks past my second shot as of tomorrow. It's such a relief. Now if my work would start picking up that would be the icing on the cake.

[utopian]

35. Same

[MerryHolidays]

36. Yes, I am going to brag

I was for Joe from the moment he announced he was running. Back then, I thought there was nobody remotely better suited to be the President effective January 20, 2021.

Joe Biden has exceeded my wildest expectations! You, Sir, after 100 days, are already one of the very great US Presidents. I bet you by his fourth year, he will be at the top.

Dear Mr President: thank you for saving us from this catastrophe and making our future even brighter than we could have imagined. You basically reversed the nonsense of trickle-down/voodoo economics, in addition to taking full command of the pandemic, Russia, race relations, etc etc, and are quickly restoring the US to being great again.

[Hassler]

37. If Chump stole another election, the only way we'd get the

Vaccine is by giving him a campaign contribution.

[jimlup]

38. I gave up swimming at the start of COVID

I'm longing to get back in the pool soon. I will be having hip surgery in June so I'm rebooking my club membership after I recover enough to swim again. Until then I cycle.

What Open Water Swim are you doing? I confess, I've thought about it but I prefer distance cycling to distance swimming.

Good Luck with your training and swim!

[Tommy Carcetti]

43. Thanks!

I'm doing an event down in Miami. Been doing it for several years. Last few years I swam the full mile but because I'm a little rusty not having officially competed in over a year, I decided just to go with the half mile this time. Hopefully by the following year I should be ready to go back to doing the full mile.

Thankfully, I had access to the pool for the past year so I'm not as bad off as I could have been. I did do the "virtual" event last year by swimming a mile in the pool and recording my time. My time was better than it had ever been but I admit I feel I cheated a bit since I didn't have any open water conditions hindering me.

I do love open water swimming. Mind you, I'm not that good at it--I always finish middle of the pack--but I do feel physically good and accomplished once I'm done. And swimming itself is my favorite exercise, since it's naturally self-cooling.

Here's to a quick recovery and return to exercise for you, whether it be by bike or by water!

[Moebym]

39. Same here.

Now my friends and I can resume our regular gatherings in the summer and attend the annual events we had to skip last fall.

It certainly helped, though, that I have a Dem governor who's been doing a fine job of managing our COVID-19 response and not, you know, Ron DeSantis.

[Rhiannon12866]

40. I was pretty hopeless about getting mine anytime soon as well

The closest places offering vaccines here in New York were clear across the state or in New York City which is equally far away. But with this new administration, suddenly pharmacies were offering them so I got mine as soon as I could get an appointment, got Moderna shot #2 a month ago today.

And I read in the local paper today that they're not even requiring appointments at the state-run clinics starting yesterday, the site at the local mall (old Sears store) is accepting walk-ins for Pfizer. And since anyone 16 and over is accepted now, no one has an excuse for not getting vaccinated.

[CaptainTruth]

41. Same here! My wife & I get our 2nd shot tomorrow.

[jayschool2013]

42. Woo-hoo

We're sharing lanes at the U of Iowa rec center of both persons in the lane have been double-vaxxed.

SWIM AWAY, Tommy!