{"id":5887,"date":"2021-02-17T12:51:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T18:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=5887"},"modified":"2021-02-17T12:51:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T18:51:23","slug":"well-masked-and-well-oiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2021\/02\/17\/well-masked-and-well-oiled\/","title":{"rendered":"Well-Masked and Well-Oiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in a mask sat in a chair in the performing arts center parking lot. He said to wait 20 minutes and then to walk to the blue tent.<\/p>\n<p>At the blue tent, there was a man in a mask who pointed to two people in masks at a table. These two looked at my drivers license, put a yellow band around my wrist, gave me a form to fill out, and told me to give it to the people over there.<\/p>\n<p>Over there, a woman in a mask took my form, checked my yellow band, took my temperature, and told me to go in through the main doors. A&nbsp;man in a mask pointed me to the other end of the lobby. A woman in a mask looked at my wrist band and directed me to another woman in a mask who directed me to another door where yet another woman in a mask stood.<\/p>\n<p>This woman was wearing scrubs. I was getting close. The walls were lined with numbered tables, suitably spaced. There were people with rolled up sleeves sitting beside each table and nurses administering jabs. I stood on a sticker on the floor six feet behind the person in front of me. 45 seconds later, the woman in scrubs pointed me to Table 2.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Just a little pin prick,&rdquo; the Table 2 woman said. She put a bandaid on my arm, gave me a CDC vaccination card, and directed me to the far side of the room.<\/p>\n<p>I listened to several more people in masks and followed long, yellow arrows on the floor down a hallway to the auditorium where yet more people in masks gave instructions. I sat in Row 15 suitably distanced from the others who had just got their jabs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A woman &nbsp;stood next to our row and gave instructions from behind a muffling mask. After fifteen minutes, she said we were free to go.<\/p>\n<p><em>Altogether, it was a well-masked and well-oiled machine.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man in a mask sat in a chair in the performing arts center parking lot. He said to wait 20 minutes and then to walk to the blue tent. At the blue tent, there was a man in a mask who pointed to two people in masks at a table. These two looked at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5888,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions\/5888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}