vaccinated

I got the second dose of the (Moderna) Covid vaccine this morning.

I took transit to and from my doctor's office. This was my first subway trip this calendar year, and I think the third since the beginning of the pandemic. There were very few people on the red line, which under the circumstances is reassuring.

The MBTA website led me to allow more time for delays/missed trains than I needed. Since it was a nice sunny morning, so I sat for fifteen minutes on a wooden bench in Davis Square before walking to Caramel Patisserie, buying macarons, and going to my doctor's office.

It was a lot less crowded than when I was there for the first dose, which surprised me, since everyone who gets this vaccine is supposed to return in four weeks for the second dose. I noticed yesterday that my name was misspelled on my vaccination card; when I called, they said they'd be happy to fix it, so I took care of that before getting the injection.

Given the warning that Carmen gave me when I got the first dose of the vaccine, I am making no plans for tomorrow; I had almost no side effects from the first dose, but am told that most people have more of a reaction to the second dose than to the first.

ETA: about ten hours later, the injection site is sore. I was feeling chills earlier, but that happens to me randomly, as does feeling too warm (MS stuff), and may not be a vaccine side effect.

German citizenship

This feels a little weird, but:

Germany will restore the citizenship of people who were deprived of German citizenship by the Nazis, and give citizenship to those people's descendants (mostly Jewish* Holocaust survivors and their descendants). That used to be only the children of German fathers, but sometime last year they changed that, and I stumbled across an article about it a few weeks ago.

I don't speak German, and don't want to move to Germany, but it would be an EU passport, and after the last few years, that feels like valuable insurance.

The German government's website has a form to use for "restoration of citizenship." They explicitly say that you don't have to use the form, but that it will help them find the records to prove eligibility.

I'm putting together a list of documents and information that I'm going to be asking my mother for. I'm also going to want help from someone who speaks German--the form is in German, and must be filled out in German, and Google translate is fine for "what's the German for January?" but not for things that need a little context. In particular, do they want every change of address, or is "I lived in New York City from the time I was born until 1985" sufficient?