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

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

Just like anything else hip or fashionable or exclusive, those first shots were of course the best, because no one could get them. Now that it's opened up to everyone, bah, who needs those second shots, they're so last month. Covid vaccine is the new cronut.

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

Multiply by 100 to get percent. 0.006105...%

Ran into a new (to me) strain of vaccine skepticism when visiting some former neighbors the other day, who are eccentric old hippie types. They do want the vaccine, but only Johnson & Johnson, which they haven't been able to get yet. Basically they don't trust the mRNA tech and are worried about possible adverse effects years down the road (which, well, given that they've already had one friend come on and off a ventilator multiple times, maybe just get the vaccine that's available?). But at least they're open to the J&J vaccine, I guess.

ugh, my brother-inilaw will only do J&J for some reason, and making any appointment is too stressful for him. If he hasn't gotten something lined up by the next time I see him, I'm going to tell him that I'm just driving him over to the vax site and he's getting whatever they have.

the #6, no lettuce

all the flavorss, and extra mRNA

xxp- people talking up the side effects of Moderna and Pfizer have really gotten into peoples’ heads it seems.

They should give people copies of Madonna's "MDNA" and see what kind of reaction it gets.

xpost one of my friends started asking other friends to quit talking about their side effects because he thinks it was causing people to not want to get it.

kinda of two minds there, like a) jfc just get the vaccine but b) if you make it sound undesirable, people are gonna chicken out

more to A than B tho

People are wimps. Feeling moderately bad for a couple of days is so much better than covid, and if things get really bad the chip they inject will automatically alert the right authorities.

The situation in India looks seriously bleak right now.

I was worried about side effects but I haven’t been truly sick in a long time and can’t really afford to have two days stuck in bed. Going to bet the latter matters to a lot of people.

That was pretty good, Josh.

xxpost yes.

I've heard the "who knows what might happen in the future if you inject some foreign substance into your bloodstream" argument, which of course is backed up by 0 (zero) evidence or hypothesis of any sort whatsoever. But apparently "hunches" have great value coming from people who know shite all about medicine. Oh well, can't say I didn't try.

I was listening to a radio thing today about vaccine hesitancy, and one of the people interviewed actually said that the microchip thing comes up all the time! It's so nuts. People have no problem signing away their rights to privacy again and again, let alone carrying around a personal tracking device in their pockets, and yet when it comes to a vaccine that can literally save millions of lives, theirs included, then suddenly they're worried about secret microchips.

It's a leitmotif in South Florida. Some churches preach i.

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got itt

Now do this at the federal level and multiply the number by at least 10

NEW: WV Gov. Justice announces $100 savings bonds for young people — ages 16 to 35 — who get vaccinated

— Ana Cabrera (@AnaCabrera) April 26, 2021

and make it not a savings bond because no one knows wtf those are except they come from your grandma

Yo where she get that bond from
She get it from her grandma

you can't even get paper ones anymore, a savings bond is just a fuckin number on a website

like NFTs