Mostly Apolitical Thread for Discussing/Venting our Rational/Irrational COVID-19 Fears and Experiences in 2020

get it now if you can get it.

Uh. It's not like the USA is about to run out of vaccine. With the J&J version coming online in a big way there will be enough for everyone who wants it and quite soon, too. Even if you're closer to the tail end of the line than the beginning, you will still benefit from the increase in 'herd immunity' as millions more acquire personal immunity. Best to not get too twisted up over this.

"get it now if you can get it" is not "get it before it's gone"
i mean that if you're agonizing because "it's not your turn," stop. any day that you're not vaccinated is a day with greater risk. get it now if you can get it.

I mean read this thread, people are extremely exercised

https://ask.metafilter.com/352961/My-friend-skipped-the-vaccine-line

just got Pfizered today pfor the pfirst dose

all prepared to justify my eligibility, but no one asked

I seen the needle etc.

I mean, there is no "line." If you can get it, then it is your turn.

I don't know how it's being organized in the US.

I don't even OWN a mostly apolitical thread for discussing our COVID-19 experiences

There is a line though inasmuch as people who are currently in prioritized groups in your area should go first where possible. If there aren't enough of those people anymore, and appointments are going unfilled, as happened here this week, then by all means get in.

In other words, there is a moral question here of prioritizing people who need it most, but it is quickly becoming moot as those people are either getting vaccinated or opting out.

getting the jab today, the nurse asked "so how do you qualify" as she was literally already pushing the plunger down on the needle in my arm.

I think you answered her question right there and then without saying a word.

Got my first Moderna on Thursday, minimal side effects (achey, tired, nothing terrible), feels like a massive weight haas been taken off

🙌

Walgreens (in my state, at least) opens up new appointments just after 6AM every day. So today I camped the spawn and got my wife and I set up fairly easily. I checked back like 20 minutes later and all of them were gone.

This site is useful btw: https://www.vaccinespotter.org

Signed up for a no-waste list at Wal-mart recently and we got the call on Friday. Wife and I got our first shots!

also: yeah no one here where both my wife and I were vaxxed (via Curative, set up by the city of berkeley) asked for any proof of eligibility; we scoured the place looking for proof that my wife works for the school district (they were 100% useless in this regard; she works very part time for the adult school), found some tax records and a pay stub, but when we went they didn't want to see it. They dont want to handle anything more than necessary.

Got my first Moderna on Thursday, minimal side effects (achey, tired, nothing terrible), feels like a massive weight has been taken off

damn I'm looking forward to that last side effect

Appt for April 6 through my doctor! Must be Moderna or Pfizer bc it's a two-shot deal.

I printed a small telephone book's worth of documents the first time and needed not a one.

I get my second Pfizer jab tomorrow morning, the day before a road trip. I hope I'm not too knocked over.

Did you need your driver’s license at least?

A reminder to everyone getting their second jab to plan 2-3 days off after. Hopefully you won't need it but, if you do, there will be no negotiating.

(my and my partner's second shot moderna symptoms started about eight hours after and lasted about 72 hours from there)

Okay so I’m nearly 48 hours after my J&J jab and no side effects at all. Crossing fingers.

First one had zero effect on me except for almost two weeks of sore shoulder.
Partner broke out in covid arm and then a rash and hives a week and a half after. All manageable with steroids/benadryl.

One of the few people I know personally to get vaxed is my friend Nick who had a pretty wild reaction: https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/03/covid-vaccine-second-dose-side-effects-rash.html

yeah, all that sounds familiar. she got completely better after about a week.

yeah my wife was very sick for a day after her second pfizer shot.

Has anyone had the J&J shot? Has everyone mentally categorized it as the weak ass one that won't save you?

my 18 y.o. daughter got it (she works in a nursing home). had a mild fever the day after her shot.

Just got the second pfizer shot. Hoping the side effects are over by Tuesday morning when I have to teach.

I have at least one colleague who is waiting for the J&J shot because she trusts it more.

Keep us posted!

I will, thanks!

My pfirst Pfizer dose went pfine. So pfar. I'm just a little pfatigued. No pfever.

Love hearing all of this.
(But still a bit convinced I'm gonna be the last ilxor to get a jab!)

sooner kinder, faster stronger

My mom spiked a low fever and chills with the second Pfizer, but she said it passed fast. My wife has her first appointment booked on Monday, and we were able to book an appointment for my daughter downstate (en route to somewhere) in a couple of days (go figure, the further you get from the cities, the less people are snatching them up). That'll cover all of us that can be covered.

Love hearing all of this.
(But still a bit convinced I'm gonna be the last ilxor to get a jab!)
This^^^

Don’t worry folks, silby will be the last

The simplest way to get an appointment is sign up with some list(s) where they contact you when they have openings. I realize not every locality has a simple system like this that you can use.

Don’t worry folks, silby will be the last

Lads i doubt the last ilxor to get vaccinated is going to come from one of the countries vaccinating the quickest

The simplest way to get an appointment is sign up with some list(s) where they contact you when they have openings. I realize not every locality has a simple system like this that you can use.

that's one way, but we've been contacted through conventional sign ups via the county, city, village, etc.

via the county, city, village, etc.

It's hardly news to Americans that our medical system is not actually a system at all, but a hodgepodge of medical providers operating under a crazy quilt of corporations on the make.

xpost I live in a Village! That's the official title of the municipality.

xpost I live in a Village! That's the official title of the municipality.

Posh in Chicago morelike

(But still a bit convinced I'm gonna be the last ilxor to get a jab!)

― kinder, Monday, 29 March 2021 5:18 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Hello from Australia, we are 3.5million does behind our original 4 first vax goal for March and 1.5million behind our revised goal. I’m starting to wonder if I’ll get vaxxed this year.

I’d like to say Australia is missing it’s goals because it I sending it vaccine to countries that need it more, but no it’s just general government incompetence.

If you’re taking about the “no waste” lists separately maintained at drug stores across the country then it does seem to get you vaccinated sooner but that is not a simple system. It’s a very American system.

Do you have to be eligible to get on these lists?

I have had two otherwise ineligible friends get vaccinated this way (one in VA and one in CA) so apparently not.

as a Torontonian under 40 with no real health problems who can WFH, I suspect I really might end up the last one jabb'd.