Supermassive Black Hole A Star

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Ep. 42, Page 35

smbhax

on May 12, 2021

My route to the hospital today to get my second Moderna COVID-19 shot, lengthened a half-mile by the massive road maintenance project that for months now has closed the one road going directly over the hill from DT to the hospital/strip-mall area on the city's southern boundary, takes me, in the last three blocks, past three national pharmacy chains, all three of which, since my first shot at the hospital, have started offering "walk-in appointments"—whatever that means exactly—for COVID-19 vaccine shots: Safeway has Moderna, the county's health page doesn't know what Walmart has, and Rite-Aid has the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Pretty good for a rural city with a permanent population of about 10,000—plus 20K college kids outside of summer months and pandemics.

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The original 16" x 6.75" watercolor art for today's new A* page is up for auction on eBay. : )