I Got The Vaccine - Why I Changed My Mind / My Experience & Thoughts On Waiting So Long To Decide
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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walking out of the
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celebration bohemian hotel got a piping
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hot caffeinated beverage
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there's a sign right there twirling
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around
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celebration bohemian hotel
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now directly over that way is a
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starbucks that i will
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usually frequent but the line was really
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long
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as of right now and notice that they had
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an emblem if they sold this coffee
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served this coffee i don't have lattes
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or anything like that
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or cappuccinos they have cappuccinos
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over there at the regular starbucks
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nonetheless this is just a normal piping
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no latte just a little bit of cream a
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little bit of sugar
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today is a day that i have decided
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that i'm going to i'm going to get the
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poke
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i'm going to get the the youth i'm going
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to get i'm going to get the vaccine
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it's happening gave it a lot of thought
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over the last few months a lot of
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thought
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and decided today's the day
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i didn't put enough sugar in there i'm
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inviting you to join me as i just have a
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little talk
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head over i looked online found a couple
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places
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shall you this was something that have
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really been rolling around in my head
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for a long time
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and i should maybe start off by saying
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i didn't want to didn't want to do it
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not really it wasn't really something i
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considered until recently
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and really the capacity levels
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just everywhere you go anywhere you go
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restaurants
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theme parks stores all that is
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escalating back to
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normality and facial coverings are
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becoming a thing of the past
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as well as
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some will approach you
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when you're out doing your everyday
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business living life
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and they get right up in your face to
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talk
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germs things like that and not just
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germs but also
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you know the the major issue that
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has been going on for the last year and
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a half
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i just feel like with the with not
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really having distancing anymore
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it really kind of kind of changed the
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ebbs and flows of my thought process
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that and travel we'll be traveling a lot
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doing a lot of conventions
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a lot of theme parks a lot of grand
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openings
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huge congregations of people who will
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not
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keep their just i just spilled coffee on
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me i just spilled
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a little bit of this on there
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yeah that's that's the decision i i
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don't even know why i'm walking i'm so
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used to walking and talking this way let
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me get in my car
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and head over head over to the place
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where it's going to be administered
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they said that there is a walk up you do
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not need
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a reservation now i am not an expert on
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this i know a little bit
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far from an expert but i have chosen
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to get the the one dose now i might
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there's two others that
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don't have the i believe johnson
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johnson johnson has the one dose
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kind of a one and done type deal and
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then the other two are two
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the problem i have with the two dose
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is getting it today i would not be able
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to get it
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in two to three weeks when you're
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supposed to get the second one because
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i'm gonna be in california
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by then by the end of the month the end
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of this month i will be back in socal
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so that will not work unless i go there
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and talk to them
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and they say oh yeah you could you could
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get the second
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the second administration could go
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in a different state which probably is
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not true so i'm going with the one doser
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which i believe has a less
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i think it's maybe 66 68 70 percent
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strength compared to the double double
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dose which is fine that's good for me
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gives me a little bit more peace of mind
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and will make it easier
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with traveling and regulations that are
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out there really kind of went back and
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forth on it
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for a long time i feel good about i was
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really
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did not feel good about thinking about
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doing it
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very always been very well i don't know
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if the word is stubborn but i've always
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tried to
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not just do everything that the world
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tells me to do or
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those in authority tells me to do
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without really giving it some time
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mulling it over sleeping on it and if
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you would have asked me this a month ago
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i would have been very weary or wary
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of my decision but right now i feel i
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feel pretty good about it
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now as the recording of this it is june
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the 17th 2021
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this site was verified yesterday
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and says that the walgreens at five one
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eight zero
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erlo bronson look at that erlo bronson
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memorial highway appointments are not
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required and they have two different
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ones
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i'm gonna go in and ask and see if i can
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of the two in socal if i can't
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or if i just decide to get the the one
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and done deal
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i'm going with the johnson right there
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they are open until 9 pm current time 11
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49 so
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almost noon i'm good to go heading over
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there
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about three miles three four miles away
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on my way now
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should only take about nine minutes i'm
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on the fastest route
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just out of celebration on to 192 erlo
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bronson
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and down to 5180 to the walgreens
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i should also mention that i've pretty
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much been active
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out and about since all of this started
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you know it was probably the first
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couple months i wasn't
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but into june of 2020 especially into
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july when walt disney world reopened
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i have been non-stop going out doing
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stuff a lot of that
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kind of was the original decision i had
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where
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i feel like pretty good immunity strong
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immune system
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always out and about always meeting
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people always giving the fist bumps
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hugs well not so many hugs lately not so
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many handshakes but a lot of fist bumps
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up close and personal i have been on a
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daily basis there has been
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really no days that i was not around
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crowds of any sort
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so that kind of factored into that as
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well
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but now that the crowds are getting
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bigger
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i'm much bigger considerably bigger
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and during those times everyone had
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facial coverings on and you know stayed
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at least
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a few feet away now no one is staying
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anywhere away there really is no
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distancing
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facial coverings are pretty much
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non-existent and will soon be completely
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non-existent so i'm factoring that in as
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well and the travel aspect as well
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travel restrictions if i was going
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nowhere and spending a majority of my
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time
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at home it
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probably would not lean this way but i
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had to live a very active life
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and kind of got to move forward gotta
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move forward
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gotta keep busy also not a major
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decision-making factor but a lot of
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places now if you have received
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if you've been poked you don't have to
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wear any facial coverings indoors
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and that would be kind of nice going out
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about
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so that's kind of another thing that's
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definitely was not the main reason it
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was a series of things but that's kind
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of the icing on the cake
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well not that there's a cake if there
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was i probably have already eaten it
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there's the signage
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5180 highway 192. erlo bronson
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straight ahead i am going in
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i have no idea how this works there's
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some signage out front here though
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i guess i'll find out when i get in oh
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there we go right there
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and then over here okay this is what i
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was referring to right there
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see how it says if you don't have it
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then you have to wear the facial
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covering
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all right that didn't work gotta find
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another place they were not able to do
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it today
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find another spot there's a few of them
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that was above as a helicopter goes by
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and
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a lot of traffic i have arrived at this
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walmart
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2855 north old
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lake wilson road go in towards the
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pharmacy
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and see if they i searched online and
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they said that they had them here
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crossing my fingers that they can do it
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today
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always fascinated by these little cart
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called the cart manager
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pushes the carts
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i'm getting distracted on the subject
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matter okay
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heading in this way crossing my fingers
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see what happens okay i believe i'm in
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the right place there is a qr code
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there's also a
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post vaccine area to make sure there's
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no side effects to sit here for 15
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minutes
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afterwards now i don't have a
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reservation i guess maybe i could just
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make one here perhaps
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doesn't seem to be anybody waiting so
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could happen
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okay good news well they don't have they
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do not have the johnson one
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they said there's a shortage on those
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but they do have the moderna
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and they said i can get the second dose
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in california
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as long as it is modern they said go
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over they could do it now
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here at the drop-off pharmacy line so
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that's pretty good
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yeah so i'm gonna get the i'm gonna get
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the tour i'm gonna get the first one
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today and then when i get to california
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in a couple of weeks
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i can set up for the second one so as a
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few minutes from now
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i will be it'll be vast at least
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the first was given this form to fill
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out they have highlighted all the things
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i have to fill out on here
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two pages and then after that i'm good
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to go
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all the questionnaires here go check
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these off and
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put all my personal info i have taken my
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seat here
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behind this little partition right
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underneath the vision and pharmacy sign
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yeah i'm kind of enclosed in here a
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little secret hideaway
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and looks like they dispose of the ones
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they utilize right in there
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i'm up next that was relatively painless
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actually i didn't even
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didn't even i thought i first i felt the
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first kind of
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the first jab and i thought is there
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going to be another one and there wasn't
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happen right over there behind that
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little partition
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she came around put the little little
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band-aid type thing that they
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insert the needle in i was also given
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this timer
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and once the timer hold on it's not
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focusing once the timer is down right
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now to
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11 minutes and 40 seconds so it was
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about three minutes ago
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they gave me the timer after 15 minutes
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after the timer goes off
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i just put the counter back or the
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counter back over on the counter
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and i am free to go that was quick and i
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have my card
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there is the top portion of it and let
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me just kind of flip it around
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and show there says reminder returned
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for a second dose
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on the 15th of july so i have over two
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weeks
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well well over two weeks almost three
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weeks give or take
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well actually more than that a month
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shoot actually yeah it's
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close to a month and they also stated
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that after
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july 15th i have two weeks after us i
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technically don't have to get it on the
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15th
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i can go really until the end of july
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two weeks
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on the day well stop either on july 15
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or two weeks after so i have a little
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bit of leeway and i can get it in
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southern california anywhere that has
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modern has to be modern because it has
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to match
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the first dose okay that was that was
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relatively
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relatively easy now let's just see how
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the rest of the day goes
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and how i feel well you'll know by
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tomorrow's video how tomorrow goes but
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i did it i was told there's going to be
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a little soreness in my arm i opted with
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the
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left arm because i use this arm a little
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more i'm right-handed
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said whichever one you're going to have
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a little soreness in the shoulder it was
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kind of right over
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here i guess i could kind of pull this
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up and
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show exactly there they got the little
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the little emblem right there take a
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look at that
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it's like a little dot of some sort
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well not a dot but it's like a it's like
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a band-aid
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and then they gave me an extra one in
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case i need an extra one i said after
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that it should be fine
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handled it like a champ was not very
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painful it was just a little
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brief pain and i should also mention i
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never have gotten i've never gotten a
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well since i was
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a youth in my adult years i have not
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gotten
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i've gotten anything like this i've
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never even had i don't even get each
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year i don't even get the flu
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flu shot and side note i have not been
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ill
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sick nothing more than maybe like a a
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minute long
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sniffle or anything like that in the
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last year and a half
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it's another reason i didn't was it
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really didn't really feel as if it was
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something that i needed to get but as
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stated
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how things are changing with distancing
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everyone all up in your face and now the
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facial coverings really are not required
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or really
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kind of on the tail end of being so if i
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start not feeling good other than you
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know
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the slight side effects that not
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everyone gets other than the sore
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arm especially with the second dose i
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think it's a little bit worse
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but i might not get it at all i do have
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friends who have you know i talked about
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this with a lot of a lot of people
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and they really did not experience
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anything like that so you always
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have to see all the different sides of
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it but if for some reason
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i get my luck i might be let's just
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keep you posted as the days go on
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thankfully my life is documented
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here on the interweb so i can always
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look back
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see if i made right decisions so let it
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be known on north
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old lake wilson road here at this
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walmart supercenter
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i did it on june what was the day today
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as a recording of this june 17th 2021
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at walmart i have got the vaccine
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moderna number one and then a month from
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now i'll get the second one and all will
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be completed
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until they come up with something else
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that needs to be done which that will
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probably happen but
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as stated you have to just take it day
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by day
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take all the facts figures opinions
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thought processes
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of not only yourself and others and
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whatever your workarounds are
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for life and what your day-to-day
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activities are that really
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was the most of why i made this decision
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honestly
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it came down to that above and beyond
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everything else
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with what i do how much traveling i'm
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going to do
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being around large congregations of
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people it just made sense for me but i
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can understand anyone that doesn't want
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to get it or does get it
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it is a heated subject matter i'll leave
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it at that
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i'll see you next video the vlog is up