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It's funny how bad these phases ended up working out, at least in PA. Like we're still technically in 1A right now but pretty much anybody can get a vaccine at this point. It feels like we're probably a week or two away from them just skipping from 1A immediately to "Okay everyone can get a vaccine gogogogogo!!!"
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Ginette Reno posted:Got my first jab (Pfizer). It was...weird. I was all braced for the Tetanus type experience but I barely felt the needle at all. Maybe the slightest of pricks. I don't really feel that different yet other than a sudden urge to buy Office 365. I got my first Pfizer dose last week and the only side effect I had was the injection site was kind of sore the next day.
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explosivo posted:It's funny how bad these phases ended up working out, at least in PA. Like we're still technically in 1A right now but pretty much anybody can get a vaccine at this point. It feels like we're probably a week or two away from them just skipping from 1A immediately to "Okay everyone can get a vaccine gogogogogo!!!" Here in Illinois we went from 1A, to 1B, to 1B Plus, and maybe we'll eventually get to 1C. What the hell is "Phase 2" then? What is with this "1... 2... 2 and a half... 2 and three quarters" bullshit?
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explosivo posted:It's funny how bad these phases ended up working out, at least in PA. Like we're still technically in 1A right now but pretty much anybody can get a vaccine at this point. It feels like we're probably a week or two away from them just skipping from 1A immediately to "Okay everyone can get a vaccine gogogogogo!!!" That's basically what's happening in Ohio. We were doing a stupid phase system where it was basically just based on age or tiny list of very rare conditions. Then out of nowhere this week they announce at the end of the month everyone over 16 can get it.
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I posted this elsewhere and forgot to here *trip report on shot 2* Sunday I was sore in every conceivable joint to include my whole spine. Felt chills in the morning, bad headache. That's pretty much it. I spent the day sleeping, I feel like I got lucky that was all. The soreness was intense, but again I didn't move much so it probably could have felt worse. Yay, just glad I got the thing.
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Strawberry Pyramid posted:Here in Illinois we went from 1A, to 1B, to 1B Plus, and maybe we'll eventually get to 1C. It is definitely on the honor system right now though. I qualified for 1B Plus but when I signed up they just said that I affirmed I qualified and then never actually checked ever.
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muscles like this! posted:It is definitely on the honor system right now though. I qualified for 1B Plus but when I signed up they just said that I affirmed I qualified and then never actually checked ever. I qualified for 1B , essential worker , and I had all my documentation but no one ever checked it. Was kind of dissapointed as I went through the effort of getting all the documentation and never used it. I think Illinois is going to open it to all in April , we're already at 4 million shots and they've opened up several mass vaccination sites here in Chicago. I just won't be surprised when they open it up to every one here soon.
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back from the dead, got my 1st moderna dose today. it was horrible. i screamed and thrashed around, there was blood everywhere. then they forced me into a chair and stuck a needle in my arm. i thought i was gonna die.
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The funniest part is when I signed up they had these really granular appointment times in like six minute intervals. It took me less time to get there than I thought so I was early but they just went ahead and gave it to me anyway.
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I now qualify but can’t find a shot to be had in San Mateo County in CA. Can’t find it in SF, where my office is, either. Anybody know of good tools for automatically checking for available slots for this area? Manually clicking around is a pain.
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They kept apologizing for how poo poo the needles were lol. It was really wholesome and all I could say was "it's a shot, I really don't care I've had worse" Meanwhile the old rear end dude cross the room didn't even know why he was there or what the shot even was for. 10/10 would vaccinate again
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I had an interesting side effect from the Pfizer shot. I'm normally weirdly allergic to one of our dogs (as in, if I play with him I almost instantly break out in huge, itchy hives - they go away rapidly, but the effect is very pronounced); since getting the shot yesterday, that response has been almost entirely gone. Presumably my overactive immune system is busying itself with ramping up antibody production and has no time or energy for other things. That's kind of nice.
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muscles like this! posted:The funniest part is when I signed up they had these really granular appointment times in like six minute intervals. It took me less time to get there than I thought so I was early but they just went ahead and gave it to me anyway. NY does 15 minute intervals but because it takes like five tops they really gave no shits that I was forty five minutes early, it ruled. I was out 15 minutes before I was supposed to be there.
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shot in the arm and you're to blame you give vaccinations a bad name
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learnincurve posted:Fun fact: In the U.K. they have found that the statistics show that you are way less likely to be hospitalised with covid if you smoke/toke/vape and it’s because of two reasons, firstly the smell keeps strangers on the street 2m away, and secondly there is a visual aid showing how far your breath can travel when you exhale smoke/vape so people go “gwah!” and step back Reminds me of this: https://twitter.com/ethicistforhire/status/1237319901880168449?s=20
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Castaign posted:I had an interesting side effect from the Pfizer shot. I'm normally weirdly allergic to one of our dogs (as in, if I play with him I almost instantly break out in huge, itchy hives - they go away rapidly, but the effect is very pronounced); since getting the shot yesterday, that response has been almost entirely gone. You should probably report that if you haven't already.
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There Bias Two posted:You should probably report that if you haven't already. I hadn't even considered that, but yes, you're right. I'll let the local DPH who administered the shot know. Any place else where it would make sense to report this?
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I got a text today from the Milwaukee VA saying "Hey, we're opening shots to any veterans getting care here from now until the 19th. Respond if you want it." I responded and within like 20 seconds they got back to me asking when I can come in. I have a dentist appointment up there tomorrow so I just said an hour after that begins and they said "You're scheduled. Come in then." That was crazy.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I got a text today from the Milwaukee VA saying "Hey, we're opening shots to any veterans getting care here from now until the 19th. Respond if you want it." I responded and within like 20 seconds they got back to me asking when I can come in. I have a dentist appointment up there tomorrow so I just said an hour after that begins and they said "You're scheduled. Come in then." Nice! I'm happy to hear that you're going to be able to get it; I know things have been rough for you recently, and I'm glad that there's at least a small bright spot for you in this shitshow. Cheers to the hope of a high level of immunity and no side effects!
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South Korean government is now having a mandatory round of covid tests for all foreigners in the next week under penalty of a $3k fine. Yes, it is only for foreigners and not their Korean coworkers. No, they didn't plan for the increased traffic to testing sites. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2021/03/113_305544.html
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Castaign posted:Nice! I'm happy to hear that you're going to be able to get it; I know things have been rough for you recently, and I'm glad that there's at least a small bright spot for you in this shitshow. Cheers to the hope of a high level of immunity and no side effects!  I'm not sure what version they have. Another goon in here mentioned that they have a few. I'll ask before I get it. Hopefully the side effects aren't too bad.
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Castaign posted:I hadn't even considered that, but yes, you're right. I'll let the local DPH who administered the shot know. You might want to sign up for the CDC v-safe checker if you haven't already. It asks you about side effects.
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Zugzwang posted:The inability to say "trust the CDC/WHO" was one of the more frustrating parts of much of the pandemic, especially when they were refusing to acknowledge community transmission early on, then taking a while to recommend masks, then taking even longer to acknowledge that the virus is airborne. What was an informed layperson really able to say? "I know what I'm talking about more than all those doctors?" I dont think the CDC or WHO were refusing to acknowledge community transmission early on. China was refusing it early on, and it might have been because they weren't sure yet or (most likely in my opinion) they knew and were covering it up. But that early on when the virus was only in China the CDC and WHO only had what China told them to go off of. By the time the virus spread to other countries it was pretty clear it was communally spreading.
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There Bias Two posted:You might want to sign up for the CDC v-safe checker if you haven't already. It asks you about side effects. Will do, thanks!
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Online bookings for vaccination have finally opened up. No places near me are offering it at the moment and I have my flu vaccine booked for next week so I will just keep checking back. If you're an Aussie in phase 1b, enter your details here and it will bring up a list of places giving vaccinations and how to book them. https://covid-vaccine.healthdirect.gov.au/eligibility Lolie fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Reports coming out that back my gut feeling that the reason Wrestlemania ticket sales didn’t happen today as was planned is because they’re going to try book the stadium to capacity. So about 80-90 thousand people in Tampa this April.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Reports coming out that back my gut feeling that the reason Wrestlemania ticket sales didn’t happen today as was planned is because they’re going to try book the stadium to capacity. So about 80-90 thousand people in Tampa this April. [coronavirus pulls off its mask] IT'S ME AUSTIN
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Illinois goons where are you even signing up? My wife tried signing up through a hospital nearby and through the county and hasn't heard anything back.
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Had the first Pfizer shot the other week and all I got was a sore arm, headache, and felt like what I'd describe as "mild to moderate hangover" the next day. Second one is gonna fuckin rock me isn't it?
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Fenarisk posted:Illinois goons where are you even signing up? My wife tried signing up through a hospital nearby and through the county and hasn't heard anything back. Walgreens is pretty much entirely on the honor system. Their website checks if there are appointment slots near you. If there are, you can "submit to an eligibility check". You have to make an online Walgreens account, which sucks but whatever, but then all you have to do is answer yes to one of "Did you get a vaccine code? Are you 65+? Are you a healthcare/education worker? Do you have a chronic condition?" and it'll let you book an appointment. Assuming the website doesn't glitch out and screw you out of the week's slots, of course.
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FiskTireBoy posted:I dont think the CDC or WHO were refusing to acknowledge community transmission early on. China was refusing it early on, and it might have been because they weren't sure yet or (most likely in my opinion) they knew and were covering it up. But that early on when the virus was only in China the CDC and WHO only had what China told them to go off of. By the time the virus spread to other countries it was pretty clear it was communally spreading. WHO were more than happy to boost that signal, and when it became super obvious that community transmission was happening after all pretty much immediately after they released that statement the reaction was "WHO can't be trusted, they're China's puppet". It made it super easy for Trump and the MAGAts to undermine public confidence in medical authorities.  Early on the WHO and CDC also recommended that people don't need to wear face masks, and occasionally went as far as to say that they make people more susceptible to infection.   The CDC may have have ****secret reasons**** for releasing statements like that (supposedly heading off a facemask hoarding frenzy so that hospitals could get all the N95s they needed, which is horse poo poo for a number of reasons) but that just eroded public confidence in them as a medical authority and hosed up pandemic mitigation efforts across the globe.
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The CDC just released a review of their performance at the start of the pandemicquote:A review of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Covid-19 guidance has found that some of the agency's guidance during the Trump administration was not grounded in science or free from undue influence, according to a statement from a CDC spokesperson. quote:The Trump administration repeatedly butted heads with its own medical advisers on the nature and subsequent public messaging of the ongoing pandemic. As early as February 2020, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, a top CDC vaccination expert, warned that the virus could bring severe disruption to American life, affecting schools and businesses, and told people to get ready at the same time Trump was reassuring the nation that the virus was "going to go away" and was "very well under control."
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The CDC just released a review of their performance at the start of the pandemic I looked up the documents at issue. The Reopening America PDF is a naked political document that should never have been linked by CDC, but it gets more insidious. The testing page was edited to discourage individuals from getting tested, in what I can only assume was an attempt to cook the books on numbers that made Trump look worse, because it’s clearly bad public health policy. ”The Importance of Reopening America’s Schools this Fall” is the highlight. This document is a real piece of poo poo justifying cramming kids into classrooms for nebulous benefits while downplaying all risks. This document got many title changes, eventually to the sanitized “Operating Schools”, but its bad guidance persisted into February of this year. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Ha, funny: ... When used alone... If you are the only person wearing a (non ffp2) mask in a crowd it won't protect you much. That's actually true. Hopper fucked around with this message at 09:49 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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My crabby old mate glued an antler to the end of his walking stick and prods people with it.
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Hopper posted:If you are the only person wearing a (non ffp2) mask in a crowd it won't protect you much. That's actually true. 
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Pennywise the Frown posted:
From all the messages I got, I thought the VA was rolling deep in Moderna vaccines across the board. The VA is the only reason I was able to get my loving shots before late summer at best, glad you got in!
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Hopper posted:Ha, funny: There's been a whole lot of these announcements and recommendations which have been technically correct as worded (or at least technically correct according to the data they had available at the time if they cherrypicked their sources and ignored other studies) but absolutely the worst possible advice: - there's no evidence of human-to-human transmission (evidence soon became super obvious) - facemasks alone won't protect you (but they WILL protect others FROM you, so everyone should be wearing them. Also half face and full face respirators do offer protection) - the virus is not spread via aerosols (according to a very narrow scientific definition from a 1930s study, but in the real world there's practically no difference in many cases) - there's no evidence that spread is occurring in schools (because we didn't perform surveillance testing on school children, or because we created our models when schools were closed) - 3' distancing in schools is just as good as 6' distancing in schools (because we're not testing kids anyway, plus 6' distance was already inadequate) The "spread doesn't occur in schools" line was particularly bad, there's been a few studies out of Europe lately where they actually went and tested kids to see if it was happening and surprise surprise the spread in schools is just as bad as the spread everywhere else in the community.
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