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

I’m three weeks out from my 2nd shot—beginning to feel like things were going toward normal. Then today i get an email that 4 kids at my son’s school are positive and a call that my niece has Covid.

UGH

sorry, Pres.

Agh. Best wishes for your family and school friends.

Back at work tomorrow... again...

Just had my first AZ jab (after receiving a call from my GP to say there were spares - thanks to esteemed local Ilxor Dog Latin for the tipoff).

20 mins turnaround from hanging up the phone to a needle in my arm, nice work NHS.

Feeling fine so far and more than a little relieved.

Praxis

Interesting strategy - NC is keeping their mask mandate until 67% of all those age 16+ are vaccinated. https://t.co/nrq9LNkmK0

— Ed MD (@notdred) April 21, 2021

can definitely quibble with the 67% target, but I like this kind of idea

Looks like I'm going to be testing my vaccination really quick. Just got a jury duty summons for about two weeks after I hit full vaxxed up status after my second shot. I mean, supposedly I'll be as protected as I can, but genuinely not happy about having to jump back in with both feet in a crowded courthouse that I can realistically only access by 45 minutes each way on public transportation.

it's weird but you're protected! live it up! on, uh jury duty lol

Honestly the only reason I'm nervous is that I'll still have an unvaccinated child at home. Given how careful I've been the last year, just the thought of climbing on a crowded train to sit in a crowded building all day is (understandably) giving me a ton of anxiety - though I'm not sure how much of that will be valid once I'm fully vaxxed up.

Jury duty is fun and valuable, but "unvaccinated child at home" seems like a reasonable excuse for deferment.

Normally I would be oddly excited about a summons, not so much at the moment. Apparently my county has just restarted more jury trials within the last month or so.

The summons came with a flier that really leaned into the "yes this is during a pandemic but this is your civic duty to serve, but don't worry we'll seat you far apart and clean the courtrooms frequently". They only specific reference to deferments is that they've lowered the age deferment from 70 to 65.

feigl-ding is a crook and a fraud

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, April 20, 2021 1:03 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

OTMFM, and if you follow him I'm sure you know by now that he moved his family TO AUSTRIA so his kids could attend in person school. Nice for him.

Feiglding really sounds like some third-tier Yiddish insult

A shanda.

Nu, it's *this* feiglding you're retweeting now??

My daughter got her second shot yesterday. Today she's achy and spiked a 101+ fever, but she's a trooper. Basically nap followed by school followed by nap followed by virtual volunteer session etc.

How old?

16.

I'm sure this has been asked already but...if you have a family history of thrombosis and clotting, is the AZ vaccine a bad idea?

As I understand it, "anyone with a history of blood clots are at no increased risk from the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine."

but if you DON'T have a history of blood clots..... hold onto your hats

Your history of blood clots begins...today!

woop finally got invited for jab!
might have to wait a while for it depending on when the 2nd one would happen (possibly the one single weekend all year we have booked in another town)

Gah, had to delay my 2nd shot because of my exposure to my kids. I tried to slip in there, but they told me to come back Tuesday so that I'm past my 14-day quarantine. I don't love the idea of doing it midweek in case I have to stay in bed for a day, but I'll muddle thru I guess.

I'm kind of hoping for a justified sick day after jab 2 in a few weeks.

feigl-ding vs. heigl-lohan

lol I'd be happy with a sick day if I weren't my own employer. All a sick day means to me is I still have to do my work while feeling lousy.

any updates, tips?

We're all good, just waiting out our quarantines/isolation. We'll all be clear this weekend. I haven't retested since last Friday, when I was still negative, but have had zero signs of symptoms of any kind.

My dad says he's not taking the vaccine. I'm pretty annoyed.

What can be said but wishing you both good luck.

just under 3 million vaxed yesterday, which is less than the 3.5 million vaxxed a week earlier.

really hoping that if vaccination trails off that it at least stays high enough to get enough people inoculated.

cases are declining for second week in a row, on the other hand, which is a good sign, but....

words can't express how angry i will be if we have assholes who refuse to get vaccinated to the point where we can't properly deal with COVID, while countries who have people dying by the thousands daily are begging to be vaccinated.

I'm guessing the answer is "very angry."

Phineas Gage angry

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/22/greece-open-for-travel/

Surreal story about Greece trying to attract tourists in the middle of an outbreak.

Had first jab this morning. Felt relatively fine all day but woah momma starting to feel the fatigue and my arm now is tender as hell. Bed calling me.

it'll pass! rest up!

yeah, climbing into bed in a sec to settle down and fall asleep watching the Shut Up and Sit Down AwSHUX stream.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/vaccine-walk-in-option-expands-to-state-run-sites-new-nyc-hub-offers-shots-under-whale
great url but better message: 16+ NYC residents can get walk-in vax anywhere they can fit in

If they’re a grocery worker? Otherwise appointment needed, it says, right?

"The five pop-up sites will be open to all New Yorkers by appointment but the walk-ins will be reserved for bodega, grocery store and supermarket workers. Proof of employment is required. Each site will receive a total of 400 doses."
yeah, this was not how it was hyped. I think they'll be moving to anyone shortly. I also think their proof of employment is you saying "i work at a grocery store"

words can't express how angry i will be if we have assholes who refuse to get vaccinated to the point where we can't properly deal with COVID, while countries who have people dying by the thousands daily are begging to be vaccinated.

― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Thursday, April 22, 2021 5:23 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

this, multiple non-US relatives have gotten covid in the last week

feels a lot like...

'we can't live cooped up inside forever, we need socialization!"
"well hey if you put on this mask..."
"fuck that, I ain't putting that shit on my head, it might have chemtrails in it or somethin"
"but there's safe things you can d-"
"why won't you LET ME LIVE MY LIFE, we're a social animal, we just wanna socialize!"
"oh hey well there's this vaccine and..."
"Oh I ain't putting that shit in my body, fuck that! I will only socialize if the status quo is maintained and 5 million people die"

"I ain't putting that shit in my body" *consumes the most processed food imaginable day in day out*

Just got results from my 4th/final COVID test of the quarantine, which ends today. Negative throughout, despite fairly heavy exposure. Score one for Pfizer 1st dose. Now I can leave the house, getting 2nd dose on Tuesday. Kid #1 has been back in school since last Tuesday, Kid #2 gets to go back on Monday. So it essentially all unfolded exactly like the data said it would.

that's positive news in the positive sense of "positive"

New hadn't-wringing WaPo headline: "‘How did that happen?’ Catching covid-19 even after being vaccinated."

Details:

In recent data, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that at least 5,800 people had fallen ill or tested positive for the coronavirus two weeks or more after they completed both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine. More than 95.9 million Americans are now fully vaccinated.

My dum-dum math: 5800/95,000,000 = 0.00006105263%

Other useful details:

The Pfizer and Moderna versions have consistently been shown to be above 90 percent effective, most recently for at least six months. Studies have also shown they are nearly 100 percent effective at ensuring that the small fraction of vaccinated patients who do contract the virus will not get severe cases or require hospitalization.

Suggested more useful headline in comments:

“99.99+ % of vaccinated people avoid hospitalization and death."

Hand-wringing, not hadn't-wringing.

Alternate NYT headline:

92 PERCENT OF AMERICANS RECEIVED SECOND COVID SHOT ON TIME, WILDLY EXCEEDING PAST TWO DOSE VACCINE CAMPAIGNS

“Given so much protection comes from the first shot,” one official said, “even the other 8 percent is doing well. It’s an unmitigated success!” https://t.co/12IwVx9CuS pic.twitter.com/fFmcp7xp70

— Dr. Steven W. Thrasher (@thrasherxy) April 26, 2021