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

Two were surprised to hear that Hope Hicks ran four miles a day and had still gotten so sick.

I would be surprised, too, if I hadn't read a bunch of similar stories 12 months ago!

Right! Which is why is was so disheartening, this isn't new!

second Moderna yesterday and goddamn these side effects have knocked me flat, haven't been this sick in ages

Especially dispiriting that it's someone from the cast of The Trump Show that gets them to turn, even though it's someone who has been demeaned, derided, and excluded by Trump himself repeatedly. They don't even have an awareness or analysis of who is trustworthy by Trump's lights, apparently vaguely remembering that their names were in the same news report a few times is enough for belief by association. Homeopathic reliability.

sic otm

ums - congrats! Sorry to hear about the side effects. I'm patiently waiting to see what happens to me with Moderna #2. What was your experience after the first dose?

Also the noises of satisfaction and agreement when Christie assures them that "Politicians screw up almost everything we touch. We really do. We just do," and avers that his own personal idiocy and incompetence are the reason that they should listen to him. And they do!

Precisely, even though earlier in the group they had each said that including Trump himself in the president's PSA wouldn't have convinced them either. It's infuriating.

The train of logic is so fluid, it's depressing. There's no solid bedrock of thought, just situational responses.

Logical trains of thought are for crybaby libs.

I also got my second Moderna yesterday and yeah it's been no joke.

honestly they just need to inject fuckin Frosted Mini Wheats and Fruity Pebbles with mRNA and just not tell anybody

thanks! feels weird to think that I made it


first dose was ok, felt a little tired (but frankly I spent 8 hours in the car driving from Mpls to Fargo/Moorhead and back in one day so I think that had a lot to do with it)

this time I have it all, aches, chills, fatigue, bad digestion, the whole works

basically it's just like a pretty bad flu, had to call in to work

Any advice or ways to prepare for the onslaught? Or just ride it out? The nurse giving me the jab said it would peak about 12 hours later, so I should drink plenty of water and take a Tylenol before bed.

I took tomorrow off in preparation, just in case, glad I did so.

that's really all I did, was just wait it out. I didn't know what was coming so I was late on the Tylenol, but you can be more proactive with it. taking the day off a smart idea. everyone's reaction is diff but for many people it just kinda.....abruptly backs off all of a sudden.

I've also heard screaming "death to false metal!" helps but maybe that was just me

Haha, I'll try that. I do need to give the new Cannibal Corpse a spin yet. Yeah, the one consistent thing I've heard is that it just seems to end really abruptly.

My wife got her second Moderna on Monday afternoon, and was generally fine until the next afternoon, when she got really achy and tired. A nap aside, though, it was manageable with acetaminophen, and she was pretty much all better by this morning. Super psyched to hang out in small mask-free gatherings outside.

My email from CVS said to drink 16 oz of water an hour before which I did. And I drank a lot of water after. I did get a Pfizer shot though.

Anything I felt was so mild it was hard to determine if it was a side effect or just how I usually feel much of the time.

Don't take Tylenol before the jab. Indulge freely afterwards.

2nd Pfizer dose next week. Was very impressed with the efficiency and friendliness of med staff, coordinators, and recipients at the Microsoft campus getting shot 1. Working to keep that happy relief dominant over the fearmongering re: variant spreads, WA resurgence, and effectiveness. One nice thing living here is that developing this protocol will help speed future inoculations. I'd expect this to roll into the regularly scheduled flu vaccinations at work.

Chris Christie:

I mean, I was the sickest of everybody

Debatable

I'm about 24 hours post Pfizer dose 2 and so far so good. Felt a little "weird" this morning when I woke up but that could have just been pre-coffee reverie.

My Pfizer dose 2 side effects mostly felt like a hangover, tbh. Tired, achy, bad headache. Took a few days to feel back to 100%, but the worst was pretty manageable.

felt a little fatigue about 24 hours after pfizer dose 2 for me, but other than that, nothing

there's no dodging the side effects if you get them as far as i can tell. but i haven't met ANYONE who has had them last beyond a few days.

this is a thing:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-mark-of-the-beast-victorian-britains-anti-vaxxer-movement

http://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/essays/the-mark-of-the-beast-victorian-britains-anti-vaxxer-movement/the-cow-pock.jpg

sounds like christie was using the same trick he used here to pull aged bigots a tiny tiny bit toward the center on a specific issue while agreeing with their basic worldview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdYMx7sycW4

reminds me of this moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvCtA-8nf2k

a reminder: as of April 28, everyone in america over the age of 16 is eligible for a vaccine and many states and cities (nyc for one) allow walk-ups for anyone.

If I had seen that sentence posted in February, I would've cried. there has been some improvement in the US!

On the other hand, meet Tennessee
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/27/us/tennessee-governor-bill-lee-covid-no-longer-emergency/
https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2021/04/24/concerts-coming-back-and-nashville-leading-charge/7318105002/

first astrazeneca has ended me although presumably not as much as covid itself would have

hope you buck up soon lj

ty!

drink some booze to thin yr blud & avoid claats

is that a thing

it's a wonder that the Australian government withdrew AZ really

Only side-effect I had was endlessly playing slap bass for a week. Then again I did get the Pfleazer shot.

I hate how much I laughed at that

I'm here all week! Year, really.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/chicken-rentals-spike-during-pandemic

Made me think of this sketch (the end), xp:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1srp0

it's a movement
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-28/chickens-millennials-weisenthal-odd-lots

Incidentally, Odd Lots = great podcast

Yeah, that second Moderna shot knocked me on my ass. I was fine all day yesterday, popped a couple of Tylenol before I went to bed - just in case. Woke up a little after 1 with waves of nausea and a wicked headache. I don't know that I ever had chills or a fever, but I tossed and turned all night and couldn't shake the headache or the nausea. Finally fell asleep for a decent chunk of time around 7:30 this morning, very glad I took today off. Was mostly better as today went on, but then a second wave of nausea hit me earlier this afternoon. It's mostly subsided now, but it came on quick. I've definitely felt worse and been for more sick, but I was surprised by how quickly it all came on.

eh, have a Jäger shot.

this mfer is NEVER happy about his vaccine access!

;)

the speed it comes on with is wild, i agree. you'll be okay by Monday, i promise.

what I really think ISN'T helpful is vaccinated people constantly telling others "remember, you can still catch and spread the virus!", as if there is no reduced risk at all of doing so by being vaccinated. one of my friends has been doing this for two months, and it's completely understandable why he wants his friends to wear a mask, but him constantly misappropriating what we actually do know (that it seems to reduce transmission, even if it doesn't 100% eliminate it, which practically no vaccine does) isn't helping.

to be clear, I don't care about masking, and I will always do what my host wants me to do. if my host is vaccinated, we're outside, and wants me to mask, I will (I probably will already out of habit). if a business wants me to (and most of ours still do), I will as well. it's probably not a habit I'm breaking any time soon as people don't know I'm vaccinated.

but y'know, constantly saying that nonsense doesn't prevent transmission isn't going to help some of the more gullible, on the fence folk see the value in getting a vaccine.

(Not to mention it infuriates me how people can't see the difference between the statements "It's possible that you might be able to transmit the disease after being vaccinated, we're evaluating" and "You can definitely spread it, this is established bedrock!"

(also, it probably matters what vaccine you got, too)