When I have looked into booking online at a pharmacy, I need to incorrectly click a single box in order to get an appt for a Moderna booster (which would make it #4 for me). And if prior experience is any indication, they’re not going to ask me anything else when I get there.
Of course, it is not unreasonable to even be uncomfortable with that.
However, I wouldn’t judge anyone for either decision.
Both girls tested negative tonight. They never officially tested positive, but it’s not like they weren’t exposed. MrsWookie and I tried to keep masks up the first few days, but we weren’t perfect (we had to eat and drink, after all), and they insist on climbing all over MrsWookie basically whenever they can. They never really developed symptoms other than perhaps being crankier than normal, so that’s a huge relief. It’s also almost certain that we got it from them rather than the other way around, so they’re basically out of the woods.
MrsWookie and I are both just about over our cold symptoms, but I still have a knot like a motherfucker in my lower back that may or may not be related to the cron. Fucker is almost too tender to massage when I have woken up these last few days.
Anything is possible, but I’d put my money on not 'cron for that.
Muscle spasms are the worst. Feel like the only thing that works is booze and time
On the one hand, yes, that was my immediate thought. On the other hand, the timing is suspect, and I haven’t done a damn thing to deserve this, other than getting the cron and getting old. So, on the other other hand, getting old.
https://twitter.com/BenMargiott/status/1493319974538018816
UNR is University of Nevada, Reno, if you were wondering.
Virtue signaling ITT
It’s … both virtue and vice signaling? Most of the times I’ve hurt my back like this, it’s from heavy squats in the gym, but I haven’t been to the gym since, well, I’m not 100% sure at this point but either late 2019 or early 2020, but before the pandemic started. That’s both good and bad.
Heh, I hear you. I was making a dumb karma reference.
Depending on your age, just getting out of bed can cause back spasms.
But since the pandemic began, Canada has fared far better than the US, despite similar income disparities, territorial divides, and comorbidities such as obesity and hypertension as its southern neighbour.
There is a staggering difference, for example, in how many more Americans have died because of Covid compared to Canadians, both in absolute numbers and as the ratio of deaths per million inhabitants.
So what is going on, and why might Canada’s experience be different to that of the US so far? And amid mounting public pressure to relax restrictions, will Canada be able to keep a lid on the pandemic going forward?
Biased left wing news outlet
Article pushes vaccine point of view
Article links to whole page of long covid evidence
Article links to original study
Article contains the words “peer review”
Thank you for your fair and balanced perspective.
Why wouldn’t you just quote the parts that try to answer the question? (Vaccination rate, health care system, mandates that are longer and stricter)
Hey, you must like the article as was expected. Are you not going to demand a link and then rip apart the ‘study’ after reading 1 minute’s worth of it?
Thank you for being fair and balanced, on this one occasion.
I appreciate you standing up for what is right.
This is in part why I think the idea that we dont need to vaccinate kids because they have such rare acute outcomes and vaccines have a non-zero risk of mild heart issues that mostly resolve quickly is a highly questionable decision.
The term kids covers a wide age range in the US. I rushed to get my 12yr child vaxxed, probably wouldn’t be in the front of the line for my 2 year old kid but doubt I’m alone there. My 6yr old kid had omicron 4 weeks ago, tested pozz for 8 days straight, didn’t pass it on to a single member of the 6 person unit despite zero / the opposite of any isolation from immediate family members - despite daily testing for all.
I’m sure my views on the very young kids would change with the advent of a stronger variant or UK approval for the under 5’s. Not many young kids of say 12 and under I’ve heard reporting long covid so I don’t see that as an immediate threat. I think a lot comes down to the percentage of adults vaxxed, daily adult deaths, kid deaths, health care provision etc. What might be right for one country might not be absolutely required in another, at that point in time. If UK can wait another 6 months, I’ll happily await other countries outcomes, like we did with 6-11yrs, now being vaxxed in 1x UK country from today.
Long COVID stuff is still somewhat fog of war, but I havent seen anything really compelling to say kids are at less risk for long COVID. Since the vaccines are uber safe, Im vaxxing everyone as soon as possible. The efficacy hurdle needed to make it worthwhile seems so low to me but YMMV. Seems way more likely long COVID turns out to be bad vs. expectations than the vaccines turns out to have negative effects that we dont anticipate.