Vaccination 疫苗接种 2

 Yeah, I got my third dosage, which is called the booster dose of Pfizer vaccine this morning!

My previous two dosages were 2ng August 2021 and 23rd August 2021 respectively.

Initially, the government of Malaysia was asking everyone to get the booster dose at the end of last year. Appointment for vaccination would be given to those Sinovac takers after three months of vaccination while Pfizer and AZ takers would be after six months of vaccination last year. However, the government changed its mind this year, hence every vaccine taker will get their third dose after three months only given that the virus has evolved into Omicron now with higher infection rate! Nonetheless, I still had to wait for my turn even though I had been vaccinated for more than three months since priority are given to those aged people.

This was my appointment venue, date and time for vaccination.

I had confirmed my appointment via MySejahtera app last week, before CNY. My aunt came to Penang with her family to celebrate CNY this year. They went back to KL after lunch yesterday. Then I decided to go for vaccination given that my appointment time was 4:00p.m.. I reached the venue about 2:30p.m. because we can get our vaccine regardless of the time. However, the venue, the so-called PPV had been closed due to their half-day shift. I was disgusted because they should inform me earlier!

There were many candidate there too, they had not been notified as well! The person-in-charge (PIC) called me at 3:01p.m. just to ask me to come for vaccination the next day. Their working hour is from 9:00a.m. to 1:00p.m. during weekends! She said the fault was from the app which she couldn't control.

In my opinion, yes, we hardly can change the app features and settings but can we notify the candidates earlier, perhaps one day or one week or after getting the appointment instead of one hour before the vaccination? Do they think that candidates will only be punctual or late?

This was the card I got after my vaccination.

I'm curious, why there is expiry date, about six months of my vaccinated date? Is this the expiry date of my vaccine if it is not taken? Is this the forth dose appointment date? Will my MySejahtera app status will be reddish if I don't get my forth dose before the expiry date? 

The pandemic has been at least for three years now! Why there is still no improvement in our effectiveness and lifespan of our vaccine? Why we still have to be vaccinated after half a year? Can't it be one year, ten years or forever? The scientists have to be bucked up more to get the world safe and sound!

I dislike this PPV. The only thing I like is the distance, it is in Penang island. Firstly, I couldn't find any bar code to scan when I was there. There is only bar code for those non MySejahtera app candidates! The venue is bigger than KPJ Bandar Perda. Furthermore, I think the government mentioned that we can pick our vaccine this time, provided it is available, nevertheless I couldn't choose the vaccine! The doctor said Pfizer is the best and Sinovac is the lousiest, I just told him that I trust the fact where China total infected persons is much less than US, which is still the highest in the world! He kept quiet! He said since my previous two doses were Pfizer, hence I just could choose Pfizre as my booster dose! Damn it! I accepted it since I had prayed to God before I went for vaccination, asking God to arrange a vaccine which is suitable to me.

Anyway, I had been vaccinated now and best hope that my whole family and I will be safe from the virus now! I also hope that a better vaccine or medicine will be invented successfully this year so that everybody doesn't has to be vaccinated every three or six months!