“I know the best vaccination pop-up clinic, you’ve probably never heard of it,” Says Guy Who Used To Spend Every Weekend Barhopping Along Dundas West
By Scott Slute
Lifestyle - Although his favourite bars at Dundas and Ossington are closed, that isn’t stopping this Toronto man from continuing to be the most pretentious person you know!
29 year old Alex DeLuca (who let’s be crystal clear is lying about his age) used to spend every weekend going to the city’s hottest new bars and making sure he told every person he knew about them. But due to the province-wide lockdown, DeLuca has channeled that energy into finding the hottest and trendiest vaccination pop-up clinics.
“You have to really have your thumb on the pulse. Follow the right Twitter accounts, know the right people. Buddy trust me I can tell you where the dopest vaccination pop-up is going to be days before anyone else knows,” says DeLuca, “I have a lot of Brazilian friends.”
From schools, community centres, and the abandoned ruins of Apt 200, Torontonians never know where the next vaccine clinic might be. Except DeLuca, he always knows.
“I was at this one vaccination clinic last weekend that was absolutely wild. It was in the basement of a Portuguese 24-hour grocery store but you could only get in if you knew the password which changes every half hour. But don’t worry I always know the password so just send me a DM when you get here. I know the guy who runs it.”
And DeLuca tells us that not only does he make sure to post all the latest clinic locations on his Instagram ‘close friends’ story, he never misses a chance to make an appearance at the pop-up sites.
“Oh ya bud, I’ve tried all the vaccines. Moderna, Pfizer, Astra-Zeneca. Which they almost didn’t give me because I’m definitely not 40,” DeLuca tells us, “I even tried a J&J one time. I know a buddy who’s buddy’s uncle lives in Florida so he can get shipments of it every once in a while. Pretty exclusive shit.”
DeLuca tells us he’s working so tirelessly to get everyone vaccinated not for the fame, but so his beloved bars can reopen. As he puts it, vaccinations are fun, but it doesn’t beat drinking Jameson until 3AM and pretending you’re not on coke.
Scott Slute is the Editor in Chief at The Toronto Harold