We were lucky in interior AK. They prioritized the vax here due to the lack of emergency health care access.
Hour flight to town - no ventilator at the local clinic.. in theory, 1 case could overwhelm the health care system here.
We now have acheived over 70% vaccinated in my little village. Anybody over 16 that wants it, now has it.
Even before the vax, our remote location also allowed us to act like an island nation and monitor travel and test all people coming in. 2 cases were decected and put in quarantine. No local transmission was the result.
Feels good to be vaxed. I like several things about it.
1. Less likely to die if I catch it.
2. Less likely to kill grandma/grandpa just trying to check on them
3. Chilling with other vax people has very little "social guilt".
Social guilt meaning... Having a few beers with friends, but being paranoid the whole time about spreading it... and thinking the whole time.. "should we be doing this?"...
Basically I am back to my regular pre-covid paranoid state. Still wearing a mask, because 30% of people aren't vaxed... mostly kids.. AND.. it is really not that big of a deal... Nobody wants to see my ugly face anyway!