The Time Traveller.

So... today I became a time traveller due to a vaccination.

No, it is not a weird side effect of having Covid jabs for those of you who leap onto those ridiculous conspiracy theories. I had to travel to a different time zone to get my booster jab.

Since the Queensland border opened on the 17th December last year the number of Covid cases in our state has shot up, despite the fact that the only people supposedly able to cross the border were those who had been double vaccinated and who had had a recent negative test. Today there were over 20,000 new cases...that the authorities know about.

Earlier last week I tried to book my booster jab in town. I want to get the Moderna jab but I was told, at the only place in town that is doing those jabs, that all available appointments were booked up for January and they were not going to book for February until the end of this month. Marvellous!

A few days later, out of the blue I discovered a pharmacy in Tenterfield, in New South Wales, had a free appointment available today so I booked it. I was half expecting to get a phone call in the meantime saying there had been some mistake and the appointment would be cancelled but no such call came.

They are an hour ahead in New South Wales due to Daylight Saving Time which is not followed here in Queensland. So this morning I set off at 7.30 am Qld time and arrived in Tenterfield, 35 minutes later, at 9.05 am. I had my jab at 9.45 am but had to hang around for 15 minutes in case my arm dropped off then I set off home at 10.00 am and arrived back at Frogknot at 9.40 am, a whole 5 minutes before my original appointment time! Magic!

So far I have had no side effects from the time travel or the vaccination.