Vendor Steven Riggs Encourages Getting the Vaccine

I took the COVID-19 vaccination shot in June because my mom took the shot in the spring. I wanted to be able to visit her in the hospital, hold her hand and caress her hair if she caught the virus or otherwise became seriously ill. When the virus first appeared, a lot of family members could not visit their loved ones in the hospital. Even in nursing homes, they couldn’t visit their parents and grandparents because the elderly were the majority of the people dying from the virus. So as soon as my mom made the decision to get the shot, and the building that she stays in, the Senior Suites at 74th and Rockwell, made it so easy and so available to the seniors and elderly that live within the building, right after she took the shot I went down to the Jewel on Roosevelt and State and got my vaccine. So I am vaccinated and my mom is vaccinated.

I would advise everyone to get vaccinated so that you can visit your loved ones, so that you can stay healthy, and last but not least, so that you can keep other people around you who come into contact with you and interact with you, healthy. To my StreetWise customers, we need your support, and I believe that, during these times, the best way to get your support is to encourage you all to stay healthy. How are you going to support us if you’re sick, or if you’re in the hospital? We want you out and about going to restaurants, going to grocery stores, going to malls. Please do that safely: put your mask on when you go inside, and wear gloves or sanitize your hands and your children’s hands when you come outside. God bless you all, thank you for your support of StreetWise. StreetWise helps the unemployed to become self-employed – it’s not a hand out, but a hand up.