KIP covid thread

I have booked my first game of football for over six months for next Thursday, a beautiful moment in advance of a no-doubt painful hour but this feels major

got shot #2 yesterday, have felt like trash all day but it's fading

so happy everyone's getting all their shots! feels big to me! also terrified about how many people just blankly refusing to do it but, like, wrong thread for that!!!!!

cases appear to be slowly decreasing in the US after steady increase - but not a huge amount (something like 3.5% in my spreadsheet calculation). that trajectory seems to be continuing this week. cases too high to celebrate or declare definitively movement is starting but hoping this means the vaccination is stemming the tide finally.

I feel like I missed out getting vaccinated in a dingy Safeway pharmacy all by myself and not at the football stadium

― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, April 21, 2021 6:57 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

if you get the shot you get to be on the team next season

the Covid Superleague

I feel like I missed out getting vaccinated in a dingy Safeway pharmacy all by myself and not at the football stadium

Was in a two-hour queue winding around hospital corridors after midnight, but I knew two couples elswhere in the queue, so we ept passing each other, and the solo schoolteacher in front of me also had a couple of acquaintances wend past him, so it did feel moderately vibey and social

so happy everyone's getting all their shots! feels big to me! also terrified about how many people just blankly refusing to do it but, like, wrong thread for that!!!!!

Not picking on this carefully equivocal post, but the "everyone" wording I see a lot these last weeks from Americans, just about eligibility, is a real gut-punch.

on the other hand sic everyone is welcome to come to America for a shot, our borders are wide open as you rightly note!

this Canadian got his first shot yesterday (and is feeling great about it)

sic by everyone i meant ilxors posting to this thread about how they got their shots and, as i mentioned, the many friends i saw at the vax site, i'm quite aware that the situation away from my exact personal eyeballs is far from ideal JEEZ

Not picking on this carefully equivocal post!!!

Tapping the sign

someone on the radio the other day was suggesting there'd be a glut of romantic comedy in a year of so's time about 50-somethings meeting in a covid vaccination queue.

(phone still insists that i mean to write 'vivid'every time i write 'covid'. or sometimes 'civic')

48 hours out from shot #2, feel normal again

Yeah I know people who've come from another country to get vaccinated. One has dual citizenship, one is here on a visa but someone worked out how to fake domestic address (by sending them mail, in case you were wondering). Obv it's only available to those with the ability to travel internationally, it's not a real solution.

Quite

Had J&J shot a couple weeks ago. Had zero side effects.

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!

✓

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.