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Apparently the boosters we are getting here in Canada are the formula for b.1 and not b.4 or 5. Still worth getting? (Lol I’m not even eligible yet) Wait for the b.5 ones?
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Salt Fish posted:The only way to hear about it is to post either in this thread or the cspam thread. I haven't seen a single mention of it outside of SA and nobody I know has known about it when I've brought it up. Yeah I know a bunch of people who aren't terminally online who are getting their bivalent boosters this month. It's definitely out there on social meida.
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Salt Fish posted:The only way to hear about it is to post either in this thread or the cspam thread. I haven't seen a single mention of it outside of SA and nobody I know has known about it when I've brought it up. Theres this thing called "The News" and the when the new boosters were approved it was all over them. I'm sure even Fox News mentioned it once or twice.
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Sep 14, 2022 03:24
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No one under sixty years old watches TV news.
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Sep 14, 2022 03:28
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It was on the front page (physical and web) of the New York Times  e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buRP_2XAQys
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My parents'/grandparents' social circles who had no idea about Paxlovid are at least aware of the new boosters. None of them have gotten one yet, though 
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i like nice words
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RoastBeef posted:It was on the front page (physical and web) of the New York Times "Well if TV is too old for you, I'll bet you kids would love a good news paper" Okay grandpa it was nice visiting with you but we need to go now.
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:Apparently the boosters we are getting here in Canada are the formula for b.1 and not b.4 or 5. Still worth getting? (Lol I’m not even eligible yet) Wait for the b.5 ones? Get whatever's available now. By the time you're able to get a B4/5 shot, they may no longer be the dominate lineages.
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DickParasite posted:they may no longer be the dominate 
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I get it, but it's a common mistake and I figure phoneposting probably makes it worse.
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Sep 14, 2022 06:33
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lol when a descendent of Kappa emerges on November twenty‐third and renders Omicron‐elicited antibodies obsolete
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Sep 14, 2022 06:39
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Platystemon posted:No one under sixty years old watches TV news. Who said anything about TV news? I don't know if you were are but there are these called "websites" that you can news from. Or is that only for boomers too?
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Sep 14, 2022 07:12
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Quick, someone update that funny vaccine collecting tiktok to cover the new strains!
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I can give the rare data point of near simultaneous booster and COVID infection. I got the new Moderna booster on Sunday before Labor Day (this was my 5th shot overall, had 2 Moderna’s and 2 Pfizer’s before). Usual Moderna symptoms for me, aches, fever on Sunday night into Monday. Felt okay Tuesday, maybe a little tired. Woke up Wednesday with a fever and feeling awful. Seemed like a long time to still be a vaccine side effect, so got tested and it came back positive. Had about 2 days of flu like symptoms, but by Friday night was feeling great and that’s continued since. This was my first COVID infection. Kind of annoying that I finally get it just as I got the new booster. Feel like I got away pretty light though and I haven’t noticed anything messed up with my heart rate when running like I’ve heard from a lot of other runners, even ones who had very mild infections.
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Thanks thread, just booked an apartment for the “updated pfizer” spot, and a flu shot. For Friday, in case I’m going to feel like dragged rear end. I could have done for today even. Yeah, I don’t watch TV news, get the news paper, and have long since disconnected my ticker machine.
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Salt Fish posted:The only way to hear about it is to post either in this thread or the cspam thread. I haven't seen a single mention of it outside of SA and nobody I know has known about it when I've brought it up. I'm in Seattle, and it's definitely been a big part of the conversation with my friends and coworkers, most of whom aren't as terminally online as I am. It's also been in the local non-TV media like the Stranger and the Seattle Met among other things.
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I got the new booster and the flu shot on Saturday. Slept like poo poo that night and Sunday was a little rough, but I was okay after that. How long does it take to kick in? I'm in the office 3 days a week, and people are starting to drop like flies. I know of 2 or 3 people here who came down with Covid late last week/this week.
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I also have heard about it literally nowhere other than here. I'm getting mine later today, but yea, the info doesn't seem to be out there the same way previous ones were at least.
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IUG posted:Thanks thread, just booked an apartment for the “updated pfizer” spot, and a flu shot. For Friday, in case I’m going to feel like dragged rear end. I could have done for today even. 
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Flu shot and covid booster yesterday. Arms are a little sore and I feel a little tired, but pretty minor side effects overall. I feel like booster awareness is pretty high, at least around here. It's been on the news, it's on social media, it's in the paper. There's a big electronic billboard I pass that tells you how to schedule an appointment. If you go to Rite Aid or CVS there are signs plastered all over the place.
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Sep 14, 2022 16:07
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I live in "The South" if you know what I mean.
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Office sent out an email notification that someone has tested positive. Email also does not mention any names, but there is only one person taking sick leave this week.  Email further states that whoever it is "wore a mask" which is laughable bullshit. I am literally the only individual who wears a mask in the office now. Hooray.
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Are there any good treatments for long covid stuff yet? Long covid sucks rear end, and it would be nice to have it suck less rear end.
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Did insurance companies quietly stop paying for lab tests? My wife got a $150 bill for a test from March when before we'd not get charged anything.
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Chainclaw posted:Are there any good treatments for long covid stuff yet? Long covid sucks rear end, and it would be nice to have it suck less rear end. Mostly it's a lot of woo, like taking tumeric or eating beets, which you're welcome to try and for the most part isn't necessarily harmful to your body, but you probably won't see the results you're imagining or hoping for. It's only been 2.5yr since our knowledge of the condition existed in all of human history, there are only a few hospitals worldwide that are trying to study it at length, and there's little to no big money interests in researching it. So far we only know for certain that it's some kind of ailment that can affect various systems and bodily functions depending on how you were attacked by your infection--for some people, it's microclotting that doesn't respond to anticoagulants; for others it's the death of half or more of their peripheral capillaries; and others still digestive dysfunction or things like "my covid got into my non-replenishing cells and used those to replicate" like eating your pancreas or your brain. just, yknow, don't listen to someone who's like "i treated my long covid with radon gas!!!" Fur20 fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Sep 15, 2022 |
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I am in my early 40s, got 2 doses of Pfizer last spring and a booster last November/December, have not had any vaxx since then so I am effectively back to unvaccinated at this point, right? I am flying out Monday to a work event where I'll be in close quarters with 50-60+ people for 3 days, with a few hours of plane/train rides on either side. Would getting this year's booster in the next day or two give me some degree of extra coverage/protection prior to this upcoming trip? This will be the highest-risk scenario I have been in since early 2020, and I will probably wear a mask on the plane/train but not when spending time in offices with coworkers next week.
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Parker Lewis posted:I am in my early 40s, got 2 doses of Pfizer last spring and a booster last November/December, have not had any vaxx since then so I am effectively back to unvaccinated at this point, right? wear a mask around your coworkers. work to live, dont live to work. theyre not friends, theyre not family. mask up.
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Parker Lewis posted:I am in my early 40s, got 2 doses of Pfizer last spring and a booster last November/December, have not had any vaxx since then so I am effectively back to unvaccinated at this point, right? If your trip is on Monday then getting boosted again before then probably won't make much of a difference. From what I understand, it takes about 2 weeks for the antibodies to build up after a shot. So yeah get the shot but don't expect to be fully protected for another 2 weeks.
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Parker Lewis posted:Would getting this year's booster in the next day or two give me some degree of extra coverage/protection prior to this upcoming trip? It takes two weeks to reach full effectiveness.
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So go get it this hour and not in 2.
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the only solution is to mask up (KN95 or better) or risk covid for…work. obviously you’re concerned about covid otherwise you wouldnt have posted here asking these questions, so dont be peer pressured into putting yourself and your family at risk. for work.
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Parker Lewis posted:I am in my early 40s, got 2 doses of Pfizer last spring and a booster last November/December, have not had any vaxx since then so I am effectively back to unvaccinated at this point, right? quote:I am flying out Monday to a work event where I'll be in close quarters with 50-60+ people for 3 days, with a few hours of plane/train rides on either side. quote:This will be the highest-risk scenario I have been in since early 2020, and I will probably wear a mask on the plane/train quote:but not when spending time in offices with coworkers next week. Just to clarify, your logic is basically 'I'll wear a condom at the big city orgy with strangers because I don't want to get any STIs, but I know everyone's names at my local orgy so I should be fine barebacking.'
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Oracle posted:you will probably get it. quote:you will get it. quote:you WILL get it at the office. You know it’s possible to… not? Like yeah don’t like door handles or suck in the breath of strangers wearing Trump 2024 shirts but it is possible to leave your house and not get covid these days.
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EL BROMANCE posted:it is possible to leave your house and not get covid these days. With respirator, all things are possible. Amen.
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I haven't worn a mask since February and still haven't gotten covid. Probably comes down to immense willpower and well balanced humors .
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EL BROMANCE posted:You know it’s possible to… not? Like yeah don’t like door handles or suck in the breath of strangers wearing Trump 2024 shirts but it is possible to leave your house and not get covid these days.
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Powered Descent posted:I'm pretty sure the new flu vaccines come out around midyear, preparing for (northern hemisphere) autumn and winter. If you got one in January, it was last year's. set up for new booster, my second, and flu shot this weekend. Gimme the needle.
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Get the new bivalent vaxx now? Or wait till the flu season? There both available now I think and there are trying to get everyone to take both. But I thought the flu vaccine was better if you took it in late October I'm double vaxxed and had my only booster once 11 months ago or so
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Covid doesn't seem to be strongly seasonal, unlike the flu, so I figire school getting back in session is a good reason to get it asap. Just to be clear the bivalent covid vaxx doesn't include flu (though they've talked about doing it all in one eventually which is why that could be a point of confusion), it's just original plus the top two omicrons. So you can get the covid vaxx now and flu later if you want. Dunno about flu vaxx timing. It feels like we haven't studied it nearly as hard as we should have so a lot of things are just poorly understood. Scarodactyl fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Sep 16, 2022 |
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