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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.

This past week, I got my Pfizer booster shot. Later that evening, I was on the phone with my brainwashed boyfriend (of 11 years) who lives in Texas, and he said, "You'll tell me if you get the booster shot, won't you? Be honest with me. You can do what you want, but if you get the booster shot, I need to know because I won't want to see you for at least three months because you'll be shedding spiked proteins, blah blah blah,....conspiracy theories.... blah, blah, blah....." I didn't have the heart to admit that I had just been injected with the COVID booster a few hours prior. I shake my head and wonder HOW in the world this all came to be. How there can be such a division in ideas about what is true and what is not true? How can someone believe that thousands of scientists and doctors across this country are all in collusion intentionally trying to harm people by injecting them with a vaccine? I will confess to my boyfriend that I succumbed to the deep state forces of evil and got the booster. He may be upset and cast judgment, and think I am a spike-protein-shedding sheep with a case of cooties so infectious that I can't be around him until I have shed my very last spiked protein, but he wants honesty. Not the kind of honesty that scientific testing reveals. That's not honesty. It's fake news. Apparently I have been duped. So will the Pfizer booster that I naively peeled my sleeve up to my shoulder to receive be our undoing? I didn't have negative side effects from the booster, by the way. I didn't feel great that evening or the following day, but I was well enough to go to work. And I don't look like I have the cooties, either.