KIP covid thread

sexagenarian parents getting their second astra shots next week, which makes me happy. i won't be fully vaxed for probably 6 months or so but will be getting a first shot in the next couple months, im not too worried about it.

that’s awesome jim.

Got my 2nd pfizer this week and finally getting to an opticians tomorrow. Have needed new glasses for years and made do since lockdowns. One of my distance pair is held together with insulation tape, the dog had my reading glasses in his mouth once and one of the lens is scratched. My best ones slip down the bridge of my nose every time I get a sweat on. Lol having crap old glasses is not good.

Obv it's only available to those with the ability to travel internationally, it's not a real solution.

And the ability to pay for two rounds of hotel quarantine.

Apparently the Maldives are planning to offer vaccinations to tourists, just go there. I hear it’s lovely

xp I don't think their country requires that but yes, whatever is applicable.

Got my 1st jab this afternoon (AstraZeneca). Injection site slightly sore and shoulder a little bit stiff.

team clottz let’s get this

Resisting the urge to start doing some Rasta cursing.

lol, this is a daily struggle for me

Got my 2nd Pfizer shot this afternoon! I've been feeling kind of anxious about the potential side effects, so crossing my fingers and hoping my best. (With the first one, I just felt tired and had a sore arm.)

you'll be fine. but do your learned league now in case you get knocked down!

Congrats jaymc!

I've got Moderna number two coming up next week.

Moderna #5

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jump up and down
then move it all around

...then have a sit down because I have a very mild headache and slightly sore muscles (is fine - I've had heavy workweeks that have felt far worse)

2nd Pfizer shot this morning from Walgreens (cancelled a long-booked CVS appointment that was miles away after Walgreens added a load more local appointments yesterday). As with the first one, didn't feel a thing except a bit pleasantly light-headed afterwards. Love it.

2 weeks past my second helping of pfizer (slept for a day but no other side effects). yay temporary immunity, etc.

the posi slightly negged by, like, the world, and the unfair distribution of vaccines, and those bright sparks who have the opportunity to get vaccinated but instead bravely stand their ground against the so-called "experts" of so-called "public health" and "medical science" and "not being a fuckstick"*, thereby ensuring an endless slog through more of this godforsaken

okay i'm just gonna go ahead and tap the sign for myself right quick.

i am currently immune to the novel coronavirus. this is a positive development for me and for the people around me.

* who would be the experts on not being a fuckstick, i think maybe mr. rogers and dolly parton and perhaps buddha. jesus is out, he cursed a tree that one time. trees are lovely. how could anyone curse a tree.

jesus is out, he cursed a tree that one time. trees are lovely. how could anyone curse a tree.

To be fair, you can kind of understand why that guy might have had a complicated relationship with trees. Given how he died, and all.

Also his profession! Trees, Jesus, treesus. A fraught relationship.

Jeeship

As with the first one, didn't feel a thing except a bit pleasantly light-headed afterwards. Love it.

Went to a party outdoors yesterday. Loud music. New people. Sorta even flirted with someone. It was great!

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that is The Good Stuff

I'm two weeks out from my second Pfizer shot, and have started thinking about going to restaurants again. And maybe even bars, if DC ever opens up again. Lock up your grandpas....

Well, if they havent been vaccinated that is tbf the protocol

got my second shot an hour ago! :D

Ive been out to see our house (almost done thank you) then actually visited some friends for an evening of takeout and mario kart (with the nine year olds) and booze and music (without the nine year olds) and jesus i needed that and more of it yet

2nd Pfizer this afternoon, got a sticker from the pharmacy folks and it landed me a free pint at the local

had 2nd pfizer last tuesday, felt rotten for several days but better now and, don't forget, INVULNERABLE

Pfizer #2 is in my arm

Pfizer #1 had zero effect on me, but Pfizer #2 did a bit of a number on me. Woke up 12 hours later, shivering and feeling feverish. Note- I did not actually *have* a fever, but I certainly felt like I did, and I felt lousy all the next day (but was still able to power through work from home). Second day I just felt a little hung over, had a little Bourbon in the evening and felt right as rain thereafter.

The lesson here is that Bourbon makes things better.

Not sure why I dallied until day 2 before going for the obvious solution!

we had a second family gathering on Saturday for my nieces bday, all vaxxed, w her boyfriend’s parents (also vaxxed) who are originally from aus & nz too :D

it was so fun to sit around a dinner table w ppl again

although in the flush of giddyness (and slight drunkeness) i agreed that night to do an indoor tap class (!) with a friend on monday (today) (!)

had to beg out this morning because i was like ahhh wtf did i agree to i dont want to be indoors w strangers yet D:

Students at the university that is my employer will be required to get the covid vaccine to come to campus in the fall, which is nice. (No word on employees.) The same exemptions (religious/philosophical/medical) that apply to other vaccines required for students will be honored but it seems like this process is not simply a rubber stamped self-attestation.

That's exactly the position for the university that employees me silby, down to the (as we've been told) serious vetting process for exemptions. Officially we just don't have word for employees, but unofficially the talk is that they are afraid of faculty pushback on requiring vaccinations for them. Tbh, it seems... unhelpful... to require it of students, but not faculty that are more likely to suffer more severe consequences (though, I suppose less likely to be transmission vectors).

woke up around 2 am with weird joint aches and stomach cramps, took tylenol and that helped. Still feel a bit off today, but the side effects have been fairly mild overall.

*taps the Bourbon sign*

Has it been noted that the FDA has hinted approval for vaccine for those 12-15 could be as soon as next week?

A friend came over yesterday and we hung out on my couch.

Music may have been playing.

I had my first mask-free guitar lesson in over a year today.

but you still masked the guitar right

I didn't wear a mask, but I did wear a KFC bucket.

I’m going to see my parents for the first time in nine months.

<3

found out recently that a very very old friend of mine had bought a house like three blocks away from me so today we went on a 4 mile walk without masks and caught up and sat in her backyard and drank a beer with her and her husband and met her daughters and i barely even thought about covid the entire time and it fucking ruled

uk (england?) has been down to single figure daily covid deaths in the last week

(although, yeah, some of that may be lumpy reporting, but 6 and 14 and 1...)