Our Experiences With the COVID-19 Vaccine

It went from a headache to total convenience.

Patrick J. Regal
3 min readMar 11, 2021
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

I am a public school teacher who is headed back to the classroom right after spring break. Taylor is currently employed as an essential worker. We both found ourselves in the early phases of vaccine distribution, but the process of signing up here in Maryland was all but smooth.

Despite our Governor, Larry Hogan, touting on March 2nd that “We’re now averaging a new record of 35,730 shots per day” — this was not the reality at the beginning of vaccine rollout. Maryland still ranks 25th in percentage of population vaccinated, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

On January 27, I did what most concerned citizens do…and turned to Facebook, tagging the page for Governor Hogan in the post:

Maryland vaccine distribution is a complete mess. I’m watching surrounding states pull it off, why can’t we? What is the problem? We’re talking about people’s lives here.

Once again Governor Larry Hogan has proven he can’t actually do anything except hold press conferences and talk about himself.

Hogan must have read my post because we were both able to get appointments not long after.

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Patrick J. Regal

Educator. Artist. Founder and Editor of Feature Presentation. Instagram: patrickjregal