The 91% efficacy rate is based on studies done with people who were living in the 2020 masked, socially distanced environment.
The efficacy rate likely drops when not socially distanced and wearing masks.
However, I don’t think anybody who has been fully vaccinated has died of covid after so your risk is much lower.
Wear a mask and go make some money. At this point it doesn’t look like enough people will get the vaccine for herd immunity so we’ll have to learn to live with it around while we are vaccinated and the ignorant are not.
The one thing I really hate about masks is it seems like it fucks with my nose/sinuses badly. My breathing always sucks horribly after long periods of wearing a mask (15 or more mins). I have narrow nasal passages though and need breathe right strips even during the best of days.
Does anyone else have this or have any tips on what to do about it?
It shouldn’t make much of a difference. Are you compressing your nose with your mask? Wear it higher up more on the bone. The nose holes go backwards way more than up
Yea it feels like a compression thing. I wear it extremely tight around the nose so I don’t fog my glasses. I’ll try that though - but I think the glasses issue might come back.
I’m the same as you. I haven’t been in a restaurant or casino in over a year. If I was vaxxed I think I would go. Oh also, I think Choctaw and Firelake have resumed poker from what I hear (I used to run a poker room - still have lots of contacts).
I’d absolutely go. New Normal is going to be COVID exists, smart people are keeping up with being vaccinated. You might get it but as long as the vaccines keep us out of the hospital go live your life.
The speed we ended up with a vaccine is a literal miracle. Remembering back to when this started having a working vaccine inside twelve months? Being deployed, was considered the longest of long shots. Seems even the most optimistic estimates were closer to 18 months.
And while it is an amazing feat it also outlines the millions of people in the world being failed at the hands of other illnesses because the resources can not be properly motivated.
Imagine if the world converted a decent percentage of its military budget to disease cures and prevention.
Regardless what happened with this vaccine is truly mind blowing and certainly worthy of a high shelf in the rankings of human achievement.
Regardless of the details it just seems like a dumb time to be appearing to loosen any restrictions.
We are literally months away from that making sense. I do not understand what states think they are doing by launching prematurely.
Even if all your data says it’s risk free it is just dumb from a vaccination management and deployment angle.
Having just gotten my first shot I can’t imagine anything dumber than me loosening up my personal restrictions right now. A couple weeks after the second shot? Yeah would be potentially overly cautious. Right now? Pure foolishness.
Imagine if on July 20th, 1969 we had the first man get 80% of the way to the moon.
I get why politicians do it. They score cheap points from their dumber constituents and it only costs them other people’s lives.
What Wichita said. I would still continue to honor all the safety precautions with masks, social distancing etc but I think you could feel completely good about such a sojourn.
If the only people put participating in such activities were cautious vaccine bearers, it would be an amazing world.
Yeah my parents planned to travel to my brothers new house here in a month. They both have their shots, and I said I wasn’t comfortable traveling with them unless I had my shot. Now that I’m scheduled to get my shot, I mean. I’m still leaning towards a 2 day car ride versus traveling on a plane though.
One argument against is that these vaccines are not really fully FDA approved. They’re only emergency approved. Forcing someone to inject something into their body which hasn’t met such a basic standard is a bit much, imo.
Get the FDA to unequivocally approve and then we can talk.
In case anyone is confused, I personally don’t have this issue. I’d take all 3 approved vaccines if given the opportunity. I probably would not get the other two until I know everyone has had an reasonable opportunity to get at least one.
I had the best luck with Walgreens. There was something wonky with the search results, because it’d say no appointments within x miles of a zip code, but if I plugged in another zip within x, I’d get results. So I just tried a whole bunch of zips and pretty quickly found appointments in South Central and Victorville. The latter was a hike for me in West LA, but not a big deal in the scheme of things.
Got all the way to the end with CA MyTurn for TODAY and it kept sending me a code, then saying the code was bad. Now it’s saying everyone is ineligible. Fun times.
Update booyah! 4am seems to be a good time once the system fixes itself.
You can’t take the 405 through LAX to the 10 on weekday. Sure maybe he could take the 101 to the 110 south but it would be faster to get on the 134 to the 15 north
Apparently I’m simultaneously going north from below the airport, south from the Valley, and east to Vegas - but walking the 40 miles between where the 134 ends in Pasadena and the 15.
