KIP covid thread

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...)

I just got back from Trader Joe's, where I eavesdropped on the lane nearest mine. There was a sweet couple (not even that old) checking out that literally had not stepped foot in a supermarket in over a year. They talked about being a little nervous, then mentioned what a relief it was to be vaccinated, even just while making smalltalk, and spoke very optimistically about how strange it will be to readjust to things as they returned to normal. Not "when" but "as." Actually brought a tear to my eye.

only five new cases in my county last week

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

― "MVP Love" (Clay),

feel this

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...)

― koogs, Thursday, May 6, 2021 10:10 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

you can remove the lumpiness (without taking fishy averages of small numbers) by looking at deaths by *date of death* (rather than date that the death was reported, which is what all the newspapers/tv are reporting).

i.e. look at the top set of data here, not the bottom https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths. it's been single figures for a week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxm7Hu-IHJs

Guys guys guys the vaccine clinic wasn’t just in the Science Museum it was THE OLD LAUNCH PAD! pic.twitter.com/wi5cnog6nJ

— Alice Bell (@alicebell) May 8, 2021

and thread...

that gum commercial is... what's the german word for bleak, cynical, aspirant and horny? "Capitalism"?

It's a beautiful if chilly spring day. I just got back from dropping off my daughter's saliva test down the street (the New Normal is so weird), and on the way bumped into three neighbors for the first time in a year. One had gone a bit grey. Another was walking a big fluffy dog I last saw as a little puppy. All looked happy and healthy, and in fact I think a couple of them had lost weight. (The third is a part-time fitness instructor, so she doesn't count). The other day I saw a neighbor whose lanky teen had sprouted up to 6'2". It's all a bit like waking up from a coma, which I suppose it what it always feels like come springtime in Chicago.

for the first time since march 2020 my partner and i went inside a bookstore the other day, just wanted to grab one thing but ended up leaving with multiple bags of books like a couple of goofs, overwhelmed at rediscovering the concept of 'browsing'. they just had all these books, for sale, lying around everywhere!

Yeah

i cannot wait for local library to reopen, i had no idea i would miss wandering for hours browsing shelves ~so much~

I've got too many things I want to do now and not enough weekends! There's a new baby in the family (not mine) too!

Oh man. Visiting my uni library to drop off books, the student circulation task told me, "The sixth and seventh floors have reopened" (i.e. general collection). I went up for the first time since March 10, 2020.

i cannot wait for local library to reopen, i had no idea i would miss wandering for hours browsing shelves ~so much~

Ours has been open for some time, but I haven't been back yet. I've been thinking about going but as of the last time I looked into their COVID protocols and procedures, they were strongly discouraging browsing and effectively forcing you to come in, request exactly what you want and someone gets it for you. Which, fair play, I don't blame them at all - but browsing the shelves aimlessly was the big draw for me!

amazing. i’d be like maria on the hills in sound of music lmao

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Our county libraries have been completely open since June 2020 with strict masking protocols. I've been working in them since the day they opened. To say they saved my sanity is an understatement.

although vaccinations have slowed in the US, vaccinations reported today (likely for yesterday) were much higher than last Monday (1.88 million to 1.19 million). if we can at least maintain 2 million/week a bit longer, hopefully we can get closer to the goal.

46% with 1 dose, 34.8% fully vaxed now.

Pfizer authorized for kids 12 through 15. Thankfully, a local place made appointments in advance, figuring it was down the pike, so we are officially all queued up for total family vaccination!

My cousin in AK who I've been very worried about because of her abusive boyfriend is now fully vaxxed and is on her first trip out of state since the pandemic. Just twelve days, and I wish it were more, but at least that's twelve days when she's safe. She stopped through Seattle for the weekend and it was almost like a pre-pandemic visit. We met up outdoors with a friend, got a drink outside at a bar, hung out with vaccinated family members, went to the beach - just a normal family weekend. It made a huge difference to my mood, both the normality of the visit and the temporary reprieve from worrying about her safety.

Intercounty travel re-opening, businesses and community sports facilities re-opening, got west at the weekend, ok exhale