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

<strong> 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?</strong> Be honest with me. You can do what you want, but if you get the booster shot,<strong> 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.</strong> 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?<strong> 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?</strong> 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.