Immunization (2 of 3): Immunization.

Immunization day at the resthome was very festive.

Everything was done in the social hall at different times for different classes of people over the course of the day, with 2 check-in desks at the entrance, and 4 tables set up in the middle where people were giving out the vaccine, and then chairs set up over 6 feet apart at the far end of the hall, where people could wait and be observed for adverse reactions for like 15 minutes right after they got the first dose.

(A staffer was waiting there and would look at their watch and write down the time they could leave on a nametag sticker, and then stick it on everyone who came to sit down.)

There were balloons out, too, and residents lit up and waved to each other across the various distances where they were.

"Why am I here?", one resident with bad memory asked me after I escorted her to go sit down for observation.

"Because you got a vaccine dose and we need to watch you for fifteen minutes, in case of side-effects," I was like.

"What kind of side effects?", she was like.

"Fainting, shortness of breath...", I began.

"Oh," she was like.

"...turning into a pumpkin," I finished.

"Ha ha," she was like, and she looked up at me and just kept smiling in this big way.