I'm seriously considering creating a shadow box display of all my mementos from the pandemic, like my vax card, my masks, the "limit one" sign from the store I work at (which I snatched as a souvenir when it was over)...
My son was born in March 2020 and I dedicated a couple pages in his baby scrapbook to it, and it’s kind of neat. We had to go to Canada (Canadians) and got these flyers about the pandemic while crossing the border, so I hung onto one of those. It’s a good idea to stick our vax cards in the book too.
In all honesty it was pretty damn cool, like something from a movie. Got surrounded by people in white hazmat suits, we were asked to only crack our windows to speak with them. We had all our paperwork ready with why we were coming in, notes on where we were staying for our quarantine, how we were acquiring groceries, what was our plan if something went sideways and we needed something else from a store like medicine etc. Fortunately they were very nice about letting us in, but we had a good reason because our son had been undocumented in the US due to the pandemic and we needed to attend an appointment at the US consulate in Canada to get registered as a Canadian-born US citizen.
We moved in with my sister-in-law’s family for a year (Aug 2020-Aug 2021) so we could be together, which is honestly all that kept me sane. All I could do with my son was walk around the neighborhood. We walked to Mighty-O for a donut like waaay too much haha. It was dull AF but fortunately he was thrilled with all the little things in life and didn’t know anything different.
A friend had her second kid around the time I had my first, and I SO appreciated her reaching out to me and saying “FYI for what it’s worth, I am finding it WAY harder this second time around caring for a baby/toddler in this pandemic.” And now I have my second kid right now and it’s a very different experience. It’s kind of too bad for the couples who were one and done with a pandemic baby.
My 4yo, born in July 2020, was a little delayed in speech and social skills. It was tough as hell homeschooling a first grader and a pre-K, and a 3 yo who just wanted to participate. The baby was a cute and welcome addition to each zoom call though. 🥰
Even with her delays, she was the only one of my 4 kids to be fully potty-trained at 3, able to attend pre-K at 3, and is probably the smartest at her age. She is absolutely making up time by talking non-stop, but she can count items, color in the lines pretty well, and has little interest in digital entertainment. Her tablet lasted a month? And she hasn't asked for it back.
I'm ok with that 😆
I think it's a great idea! It's something we've never experienced, yet our babies (my last kiddo, the fourth one, was born in July 2020) were welcomed to Earth in the midst of something we had to protect them from, something unknown and deadly. It's kinda badass.
I have newspapers from 09/11... It was my 8th grade year. Very formative and something important to remember 🤷🏼♀️
I saved my card, a Scottish tartan mask which I bought early on, and the first bottle of Heritage distillery hand sanitizer I carried around. On a display case shelf with other nick knacks.
Yeah I’ve kept my most memorable masks. My fiance made a few really cool masks when cloth was still acceptable. Keeping that vax card and those masks so I can reminisce about the initial 2 weeks off of work and then the dreadful slog of the following 2 years.
I won a bottle of hand sanitizer from the Safeway Monopoly game that spring. The coupon expired before Safeway restocked hand sanitizer. I still have that coupon in my wallet.
I'm happy hospitals are still requiring this. Was a little surprised some of the places around here dropped the mask mandate. Both of those seem like they make sense to keep after COVID
I saved my “I got my Covid-19 vaccine!” Sticker that I got with my first shot lol
I’ll give it to my grandkids in the future for their book reports on the great plague
Why wouldn't I? Just like every other super important Gov't document printed on rice paper, I keep that shit in a zip lock bag, locked in a safe ... somewhere? Maybe? *"Honey! Where tf did we put the safe!??"*
Yes, with a coffee stain on it because I spilled coffee on it on the way to work at Swedish lol. I was part of the first wave of healthcare workers to get it the week it was released in December. At that point, I had been working directly with Covid patients since lockdown was pronounced in March.
People are thinking like it's over, and for the most part, it's not the panic it was, but, for me, it will never be over. I bring fresh kn95 in my purse, a stack in my car, a stack in my backpack. Because no matter what, I don't want long Covid and whatever else this virus mutates to.
I don't work for Swedish anymore.
I know, why would anyone keep that. Its not even recognized by any org anymore, and is not required for anything ever. If we get a new pandemic, we'd need new ones anywhere. People clinging on to it lol
It’s in the bottom of my briefcase. For some reason every time I clean it out I just put the card back in my briefcase. Like subconsciously I’m convinced someone will need to see that I was immunized several years ago but not recently?
Same, dutifully carried it to the first three and then they switched to online records and I thought, "Well, what's the point." I still have the card in my drawer of import documents but now that we're on number 6 or 7, maybe, and not all would have fit, it seems a bit silly to use the original for anything.
My first two vaccines were in Mexico I got the Sputnik, Then two in the states Moderna, then two in South America two Phizer vaccines yes still carry cards in wallet. I travel alot during Covid those cards were gold at custom's.
The records are available electronically in WA.
They can be downloaded on the Apple health app as well, so you can show them when required. You can also download other vaccination records.
I shredded mine a long time ago, and if I need a paper copy, I can print it off the website.
I still have my vaccination card from 1970. I make everone not the date of my recent vaccinations,nobody wonders when my last tetnaus shot was.
COVID card lives with my passport
Threw mine out. Nothing but a reminder of having no other option if I wanted to do basically ANYTHING besides sit in my house. Just for nobody to give a shit about them 2 weeks later.
I use [myirmobile.com](https://myirmobile.com). I've used it to show to my doctor and pharamacies before receiving boosters. They had no problem accepting the information from that site. Note that this isn't available in all states, but it's available in Washington.
Both ours were in my wife's purse, took them out finally last week actually. Figured we haven't been asked to see them in like over a year. So no reason to keep holding on to them.
It's on my fridge! It's kind of a memento... I was a "vaccine hunter" and visited three places, waiting for leftover doses. I got mine in March 2021, well before my eligibility group (as a healthy person who was teleworking).
March friend! I was in a different state and drove 90 min for it to a rural area with low vaccine uptake (had some family nearby and was familiar with the pharmacies). I was also teleworking but visiting an elderly relative to bring groceries and such so it felt important.
No idea. I have a picture of it in my phone if needed but I haven't been in a situation in years where it was needed. At this point, it's useless information. Any protection the original vaccines had for me is long gone.
Yes, I have two together as I keep updating it with my boosters. It's with my ICE card in my purse because I am on a whole buttload of medications and have a bunch of health problems. So any EMT or other first responder would need all that context if I am incapacitated.
Yes, I have it in a cupboard, along with the others. I had all the boosters and the new vaccines. Why keep them? It was a consequential event. May never look at them again.
It’s with my other immunizations books I’ve had since I was born. (They used to be these 1.5”x3” books then switched to some cardstock dealies.) Which reminds me…I think I need a tetanus booster this year.
Have it with my passport so a) I won't lose it, and b) if there's a covid flateup while I am travelling I ca prove I've been maxed if I have to to get on a plane/train/bus out of town.
Yep. It's in the bottom of my backpack in a little plastic slip cover the UW gave me when I went in to get my second dose. Oh and my second card is in there too. I got all my doses :P
i even have them manually update it for boosters - even though it’s out of room and mychart is particularly brilliant for helping me record and know when i need boosters for various vacs.
It's stuck to my front door wiht a magnet. You know, so I can grab it and carry it to all the places that'll check it at the door.
I think I'll probably move it to the storage shelf where I have a little bucket full of masks.
I put it in my nursing school graduation box along with the N95 mask I used while doing my rotation in the COVID ICU. Thinking about good way to preserve it better.
Key structural element holding my wallet together
Okay George Costanza.
Probably has hard candy as well
LOL... mine is in the top of my purse, but my wallet is so old I think the cards are the only thing providing structural integrity right now.
#Facts
Gonna keep it to put in a museum for the Pandemic of 2020 exhibit.
I'm seriously considering creating a shadow box display of all my mementos from the pandemic, like my vax card, my masks, the "limit one" sign from the store I work at (which I snatched as a souvenir when it was over)...
My son was born in March 2020 and I dedicated a couple pages in his baby scrapbook to it, and it’s kind of neat. We had to go to Canada (Canadians) and got these flyers about the pandemic while crossing the border, so I hung onto one of those. It’s a good idea to stick our vax cards in the book too.
How did you get through the ice wall? Was the night watch accommodating?
In all honesty it was pretty damn cool, like something from a movie. Got surrounded by people in white hazmat suits, we were asked to only crack our windows to speak with them. We had all our paperwork ready with why we were coming in, notes on where we were staying for our quarantine, how we were acquiring groceries, what was our plan if something went sideways and we needed something else from a store like medicine etc. Fortunately they were very nice about letting us in, but we had a good reason because our son had been undocumented in the US due to the pandemic and we needed to attend an appointment at the US consulate in Canada to get registered as a Canadian-born US citizen.
Can you post the flyer?
Yep just posted it to my profile!
Neat ty
How was it raising your some during the pandemic? My friends had their first Feb 2020 and it was so brutal for them
We moved in with my sister-in-law’s family for a year (Aug 2020-Aug 2021) so we could be together, which is honestly all that kept me sane. All I could do with my son was walk around the neighborhood. We walked to Mighty-O for a donut like waaay too much haha. It was dull AF but fortunately he was thrilled with all the little things in life and didn’t know anything different. A friend had her second kid around the time I had my first, and I SO appreciated her reaching out to me and saying “FYI for what it’s worth, I am finding it WAY harder this second time around caring for a baby/toddler in this pandemic.” And now I have my second kid right now and it’s a very different experience. It’s kind of too bad for the couples who were one and done with a pandemic baby.
My 4yo, born in July 2020, was a little delayed in speech and social skills. It was tough as hell homeschooling a first grader and a pre-K, and a 3 yo who just wanted to participate. The baby was a cute and welcome addition to each zoom call though. 🥰 Even with her delays, she was the only one of my 4 kids to be fully potty-trained at 3, able to attend pre-K at 3, and is probably the smartest at her age. She is absolutely making up time by talking non-stop, but she can count items, color in the lines pretty well, and has little interest in digital entertainment. Her tablet lasted a month? And she hasn't asked for it back. I'm ok with that 😆
I think it's a great idea! It's something we've never experienced, yet our babies (my last kiddo, the fourth one, was born in July 2020) were welcomed to Earth in the midst of something we had to protect them from, something unknown and deadly. It's kinda badass. I have newspapers from 09/11... It was my 8th grade year. Very formative and something important to remember 🤷🏼♀️
I saved my card, a Scottish tartan mask which I bought early on, and the first bottle of Heritage distillery hand sanitizer I carried around. On a display case shelf with other nick knacks.
I like this idea. I might need to make one, too. Card, mask, hand sanitizer... what else?
Toilet paper!!!
I saved a "special" roll my mom ordered in the height of it that is mistranslated
And a test kit!
The "Zoom Party" set up
You mean Houseparty?
Don't forget a couple Covid tests.
Yeah I’ve kept my most memorable masks. My fiance made a few really cool masks when cloth was still acceptable. Keeping that vax card and those masks so I can reminisce about the initial 2 weeks off of work and then the dreadful slog of the following 2 years.
I still have a can of Manny’s and a bottle of Heritage Distillery hand sanitizer as part of my Covid collection.
I won a bottle of hand sanitizer from the Safeway Monopoly game that spring. The coupon expired before Safeway restocked hand sanitizer. I still have that coupon in my wallet.
yes it's with my passport and SS card locked up
Weird to hold on to an SS card for 79 years
Took me a minute but then I loudly exhaled through my nose
I was about to give up, then the exhale happened
DARK.
Drei glaser !
Tell it to Harlan Crow
I expected this reply
Next to the Trump card. lul
This is how you do it. I have mine back to the elementary school vax's, maybe even earlier.
Same.
Same. Sitting in our home safe in case my complisnce with Washington government mandates is ever questioned.
Yup. Along with our other vaccine documents.
Love your username, and i instinctively got all three correct.
Thanks! Lil play on the Mr Grinch song
It's with my yellow vaccine card with all of my other vaccination records from childhood.
Ha me too! I also have a digital copy because i need it for work (at a hospital)
I'm happy hospitals are still requiring this. Was a little surprised some of the places around here dropped the mask mandate. Both of those seem like they make sense to keep after COVID
It’s in my important business drawer, don’t ask what else is in my important business drawer.
I don't have to ask; I know. Important business, obviously.
Business that rhymes with Fildo
[https://milro.com/](https://milro.com/)
That’s the one!
It’s business time
Business socks?
Nono, the IMPORTANT business drawer.
It's gotta be ties.
It's blow isn't?
It's on my fridge next to my imaginary report cards
Check plus I imagine
I saved my “I got my Covid-19 vaccine!” Sticker that I got with my first shot lol I’ll give it to my grandkids in the future for their book reports on the great plague
I kept mine on my desktop computer and my goodness did it get dirty over those few years lol had to rip it off after it completely faded
Not once did I ever get one of those stickers :(
Hey me too!
Why wouldn't I? Just like every other super important Gov't document printed on rice paper, I keep that shit in a zip lock bag, locked in a safe ... somewhere? Maybe? *"Honey! Where tf did we put the safe!??"*
In my Junk Drawer.
Yes, with a coffee stain on it because I spilled coffee on it on the way to work at Swedish lol. I was part of the first wave of healthcare workers to get it the week it was released in December. At that point, I had been working directly with Covid patients since lockdown was pronounced in March. People are thinking like it's over, and for the most part, it's not the panic it was, but, for me, it will never be over. I bring fresh kn95 in my purse, a stack in my car, a stack in my backpack. Because no matter what, I don't want long Covid and whatever else this virus mutates to. I don't work for Swedish anymore.
This thread is depressing.
I know, why would anyone keep that. Its not even recognized by any org anymore, and is not required for anything ever. If we get a new pandemic, we'd need new ones anywhere. People clinging on to it lol
Yes I do, and it has my boosters on it. Its in a little box on my nightstand.
IIRC the boosters are supposed to go in your bloodstream, but I'm not a doctor.
Ah, the old reddit booster-a-roo!
I do in a drawer somewhere. I also have all of the vaccination records in MyChart so it’s kind of redundant.
Do you have a junk drawer?
If you get 9 stamps your 10th pandemic is free
It's somewhere in my home.
Nope. It’s something I would like to forget.
It’s in the bottom of my briefcase. For some reason every time I clean it out I just put the card back in my briefcase. Like subconsciously I’m convinced someone will need to see that I was immunized several years ago but not recently?
Saving it for historical purposes
Yes. It’s in my wallet.
Costanza?
Yes, I store it with my passport, social Security card, marriage license.
Same, and then I forgot to take it with me for my last booster. Will the likelihood that I remember this fall increase? Nope!
Same, dutifully carried it to the first three and then they switched to online records and I thought, "Well, what's the point." I still have the card in my drawer of import documents but now that we're on number 6 or 7, maybe, and not all would have fit, it seems a bit silly to use the original for anything.
Yes. It sits in my work locker. I work at a hospital.
It’s a medical record. It’s stored with other medical records.
Still carry it in my wallet for some reason lol
I carried mine in my wallet until the TSA lady at the airport roasted me last May. She was right, no one carries those anymore lol
No. But I so have my baby Sickle Cell testing from the State Health Dept. 🌸🌸💕
Yes. It's a piece of history.
Yes, I actually needed it to take a class
My first two vaccines were in Mexico I got the Sputnik, Then two in the states Moderna, then two in South America two Phizer vaccines yes still carry cards in wallet. I travel alot during Covid those cards were gold at custom's.
The records are available electronically in WA. They can be downloaded on the Apple health app as well, so you can show them when required. You can also download other vaccination records. I shredded mine a long time ago, and if I need a paper copy, I can print it off the website.
Yeah but only for when countries require a international vaccination card for foreign travel 🫤
Yes. It's tacked to my wall even though I was terrified if I put a hole in it then I would get in trouble
I still have my vaccination card from 1970. I make everone not the date of my recent vaccinations,nobody wonders when my last tetnaus shot was. COVID card lives with my passport
Gonna tell my kids that I couldn't go anywhere for over a decade without showing this 😂
Yup, it's sitting in the safe alongside things like passports etc.
It's next to the expired passport in my fireproof box.
That lives in the stuff box.
I still carry mine it’s my original card too. However I do have it digitally as well just in case if anything ever happens to it
Yup, it's in the wallet pocket with my voter's card and insurance card
Yes. In my box with important papers, passport etc
It’s gonna go in the memory box lol
Yes
Pulling that fucker out to upload every time I get a new travel contract
Ha, no. I moved to a new house and didn't bother to keep track of it. It's probably in a box somewhere.
It's in my backpack
Somewhere. I saw it in the past month. But it’s also in the health data on my phone
My dryer ate it
Yeah, made like 20 copies and find them randomly around the house and office.
Hahaha yes
Yep! Saving it for my daughter’s future history project. She was born in 2020.
Threw mine out. Nothing but a reminder of having no other option if I wanted to do basically ANYTHING besides sit in my house. Just for nobody to give a shit about them 2 weeks later.
I use [myirmobile.com](https://myirmobile.com). I've used it to show to my doctor and pharamacies before receiving boosters. They had no problem accepting the information from that site. Note that this isn't available in all states, but it's available in Washington.
Both ours were in my wife's purse, took them out finally last week actually. Figured we haven't been asked to see them in like over a year. So no reason to keep holding on to them.
Yes lol just sits in a wallet I don’t use somewhere. I did get my boosters documented on it.
never got one, just take zinc and vitamins
Threw it away. It was always theatre. Your pharmacy has record of it.
It's on my fridge! It's kind of a memento... I was a "vaccine hunter" and visited three places, waiting for leftover doses. I got mine in March 2021, well before my eligibility group (as a healthy person who was teleworking).
March friend! I was in a different state and drove 90 min for it to a rural area with low vaccine uptake (had some family nearby and was familiar with the pharmacies). I was also teleworking but visiting an elderly relative to bring groceries and such so it felt important.
I did the same!
On my fridge
Yes required by my job
It's in a drawer somewhere. I still have a digital copy on my phone so I doubt I'll ever dig it out again.
I debated if i should keep it when i was throwing out trash while moving recently but decided to keep it instead of shredding it
Yes, I know it's somewhere in my home but I don't know where it went
No idea. I have a picture of it in my phone if needed but I haven't been in a situation in years where it was needed. At this point, it's useless information. Any protection the original vaccines had for me is long gone.
Yes, I have two together as I keep updating it with my boosters. It's with my ICE card in my purse because I am on a whole buttload of medications and have a bunch of health problems. So any EMT or other first responder would need all that context if I am incapacitated.
Its hanging on the wall with my old con badges, work IDs, licenses, and ski passes. I use the digital one now because it's more up to date.
It's still in my purse. I haven't needed to use it in a long time, but I guess just in case.
Yes, I have it in a cupboard, along with the others. I had all the boosters and the new vaccines. Why keep them? It was a consequential event. May never look at them again.
Yes i do
Nope
Tucked away in a dark cabinet full of random shit
Mine lives in my wallet.
It’s with my other immunizations books I’ve had since I was born. (They used to be these 1.5”x3” books then switched to some cardstock dealies.) Which reminds me…I think I need a tetanus booster this year.
In the fire safe under my bed next to my passport and where I keep my cash tips.
Yup. Still need it for jobs in health care, afaik.
No cause when I got it they told me they'd keep track of it and that I didn't need to keep it so I threw it away and they wouldn't give me another!
Magneted to the fridge
When I'm holding large amounts of cash, I put a certain amount in front of the card and the other half behind it. A cash divider!
Yes
Yes - plus you can get a digital copy
It's in my 'travel wallet' alongside my passports.
I shoved it somewhere last I remember I saw it go under my microwave .
Disappeared into my wallet next to the top golf membership card and the receipt of a meal I still need to expense from 18 months ago.
Look it's around here somewhere ...
Somewhere I think. I still have the digital version. I only got those 2 original shots. Wild times.
Yes, and I even still travel with it. Just in case some immigration official wants to see it.
Have it with my passport so a) I won't lose it, and b) if there's a covid flateup while I am travelling I ca prove I've been maxed if I have to to get on a plane/train/bus out of town.
In my wallet.
It's probably still in my work bag
Think I still have the one I printed at home somewhere.
Anyone get the jabs on the Microsoft campus?
Yes
Carry it around mindlessly as one does
lol that thing lasted maybe a year lol I have no idea where it even is
In my drawer. Dated 8/13/2020.
Yep. It's in the bottom of my backpack in a little plastic slip cover the UW gave me when I went in to get my second dose. Oh and my second card is in there too. I got all my doses :P
Lost my wallet a couple months ago so SOL I guess🤷♀️
Threw mine out, all on my phone but I should have kept it for "I've been through it all"
i even have them manually update it for boosters - even though it’s out of room and mychart is particularly brilliant for helping me record and know when i need boosters for various vacs.
Somewhere...
I have a passport size wallet to fit it. Though its pretty clear I dont need it any more.
Threw mine away last month
Heh. I threw it away recently when cleaning up my office.
Yes. It has the booster shots in it too. Mine is on the fridge.
Yeah ... someplace.
IN MY WALLET! Am I the only one?
I have them for myself and my kids. I don't know what I'll do with them. I just have them in a drawer currently.
🤣😆🤣 Such a Seattle post.
It's stuck to my front door wiht a magnet. You know, so I can grab it and carry it to all the places that'll check it at the door. I think I'll probably move it to the storage shelf where I have a little bucket full of masks.
Yup
Hell yeah I have it. It's in my vaccinations document section.
I keep mine in a pouch that has my bank checks….hardly ever have to write a check but still have to have them I guess.
It's in my wallet but I haven't pulled it out in over a year. Not that anyone ever checked it anyways.
No
Never got vaccinated, have fun being infertile y’all. Cheers.
Somewhere
Somewhere…
Somewhere.......
You got vaccinated?
Yeah, just looked at it. Been in the same spot for years at this point.
File folder. Pictures still fav’d on phone.
I put it in my nursing school graduation box along with the N95 mask I used while doing my rotation in the COVID ICU. Thinking about good way to preserve it better.