Vaccine

[Arlyn Aronson]

Got my last moderna vax yesterday and had a modestly sore arm and worked all day. Was so tired last night I fell asleep while watching my nephews concert that was being streamed. Woke up this morning after 11 hours of sleep. Of course I was woke up by a certain sore arm many times. Its been a long, long time since the last time I slept that long. I don't feel to bad this morning. Dearest says she'll make me chicken soup with stars in it.

 

[Groomporter]

I was down with malaria-like severe chills for about 6 hours, and useless from fatigue for about 36 hours (Pfizer) after the second shot, but the wife (Moderna) got off with just a sore arm. pbbbt.

 

[firepit]

I got the same symptoms as i had with my first shot.
The timeline of them showing up is the same as well.
My soulmate is gonna be making chicken noodle soup with stars.

 

[kcsa75]

I got my second stick this morning. So far, so good.

 

[Arlyn Aronson]

I was down with malaria-like severe chills for about 6 hours, and useless from fatigue for about 36 hours (Pfizer) after the second shot, but the wife (Moderna) got off with just a sore arm. pbbbt.

I had some chills as well but nothing to horrible. Today I'm 95% back to normal.

 

[Hilldweller]

I worked another vax clinic on Friday and got home so bummed that the DW took me camping (despite a horrible Saturday forecast) and made me drink all weekend.
Vax clinic stats Friday. Had 1300 doses but only 127 reservations.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
We sent out hospital reps to local businesses, made phone calls, tried to recruit shoulders for shots. Got a few more but most people in my hillbilly county said, "nah, I don't trust the science."

We're only going to run two more clinics to give second doses to people. Hilldweller sad.

 

[WrkrBee]

Got a few more but most people in my hillbilly county said, "nah, I don't trust the science."

Direct result of distrust of political leadership and the media.

 

[Hilldweller]

Direct result of distrust of political leadership and the media.

sigh

mRNA research is 3 decades old, for crying out loud. People need to get their heads out of the sand already.
The only "new" technology here is the nano-tech and that's already a decade strong.
jeez

[/sigh.off]

 

[Arlyn Aronson]

Direct result of distrust of political leadership and the media.

Yes, but this is not new. The last pandemic was as political, decisive and some said it was "a phony". Many people don't recall the strong political party that tried to keep us out of WWII because it was far away, not our problem and still recalled WWI happened just 20 years earlier. After the war the same people they said "that wasn't me". This is the same thing that will happen with today's pandemic.

 

[Hilldweller]

Yes, but this is not new. The last pandemic was as political, decisive and some said it was "a phony". Many people don't recall the strong political party that tried to keep us out of WWII because it was far away, not our problem and still recalled WWI happened just 20 years earlier. After the war the same people they said "that wasn't me". This is the same thing that will happen with today's pandemic.

Brings to mind the Black Death and the Crusades...

Harsh how history repeats itself.

 

[firepit]

Brings to mind the Black Death and the Crusades...

Harsh how history repeats itself.

I am interested in seeing how things shake out in a decade or two down the road once this is in our rearview
mirror if and when it ever is.
Hopefully everything is fine and dandy and we don't see stories about research linking this vaccine or that vaccine
to.........

 

[Groomporter]

Caitlin Doughty and her Ask A Mortician Youtube channel had an interesting look at a Bubonic Plague outbreak in San Francisco in 1900 that may have some parallels to now...

 

[Hilldweller]

Caitlin Doughty and her Ask A Mortician Youtube channel had an interesting look at a Bubonic Plague outbreak in San Francisco in 1900 that may have some parallels to now...

Pretty informative video; thanks.

And for you kids playing at home, plague is still around in the US, especially the southwest. About 5000 people get it annually worldwide.
It's good to know the symptoms, especially pneumonic plague --- you can transmit that one easily and it kills you really really fast. So fast that a patient is often dead the same day they first show symptoms...
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/plague/symptoms-causes/syc-20351291

 

[1380ken]

Fully vaccinated, playing cards Friday night in my garage with my friends. Will be the first time playing since Friday March 13, 2020. After all this time it will feel strange sitting with my friends and no masks.

 

[DiamondGirl]

We are fully vaccinated… Playing Mahjongg with girlfriends this month. First time in person since last February 2020. We kept our games online with videoconferencing once a month. We also have a camping trip planned too. Can’t wait to see our camping friends again. DH and I have been camping all season alone. All our friends are now vaccinated too. They will be joining us at camp. And glad to hear so many of our forum members got theirs too.

As a survivor, I want to give special thanks to all medical staff, first responders, and volunteers with the vaccinations rollout. And thanks to everyone who has taken responsibility to get their vaccinations to make our communities safer against COVID-19. Getting vaccinated is important if we want to get back to normal activities/life.

One life loss to COVID-19 is TOO many.

Happy Camping…

 

[Sneezer]

All 3 of us got our 2nd dose on Thursday. Sore arm that evening tot he point I couldn't sleep on that side, only slight soreness the next day and nothing by Saturday. Slight fever and that was it. DW was a little more sore and fatigued, same with my son. All good now. Looking forward to crossing that 2 week milestone post vaccine.

 

[Hilldweller]

I worked my final clinic (until boosters?) on Friday. Only 100 appointments ---- we had 3 of a possible 20 lanes open for patients.
sigh
By the time we vax'd 80 of them it was so slow that the Emergency Management Director told me I could go home.
We've got more vax than demand. People in other countries think we're idiots in the U.S.

The Director and I are giving a talk to the Boy Scouts tonight about Emergency Management. Looking forward to it.

 

[Arlyn Aronson]

Sorry to hear that. Its sad we have so few people who take the pandemic seriously.

 

[Dave Brick]

I work in direct patient care, and I am still required to wear a KN95 mask all day at work. I am required to test twice weekly. All negative for 6 months. I don't know what the tests cost now, but they were $75. each when we started.

There are now fewer than 20,000 cases nationwide. During an average influenza season, there are 500,000 cases, and a similar death rate, mostly among the elderly.

This is NOT the same as not "tak(ing) the pandemic seriously". This is following the science. My background includes graduate level studies in the molecular basis of immunology. Testing after full immunization is a waste of resources. Frankly, testing after recovery from Covid is also a waste of resources. There is no evidence of transmission of Covid after immunization. People still test positive occasionally, but they don't have the disease. They merely have Covid virus (or fragments of dead Covid RNA) in their nose, but their immune system is functioning properly and keeping them safe.

I have personally recovered from Covid, (caught from a known patient), subsequently tested negative, returned to work, tested positive a month or so later. I WAS NOT SICK! I was required to go in to work and do a quick test which was negative, which allowed me to return to work. I got immunized (Pfizer) because my employer offered it. I still don't think it was scientifically sound to get the vaccine, but I saw this coming with only allowing those with a documented vaccine to travel freely without a mask. I got Covid-like symptoms from the vaccine, first dose worse than the second.

The mark of the beast.

I think, personally, there should be more testing to see if someone has antibodies to the Covid antigen, whether natural or acquired by immunization. If you have natural antibodies, you should not need the vaccine.

 

[Hilldweller]

I work in direct patient care, and I am still required to wear a KN95 mask all day at work. I am required to test twice weekly. All negative for 6 months. I don't know what the tests cost now, but they were $75. each when we started.

There are now fewer than 20,000 cases nationwide. ....

As of Friday there were over 27,000 new cases per day in the US.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html