turns out my dad got the J&J three days ago. literature says it’s fully effective in 2 weeks. glad he’s going to fade the ‘rona.
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Oh yeah… my whole body is wracked with soreness. I forget, does that mean I am more or less likely to have had it at some point in the past?
This is a very weird phenomena. I know for a fact, mentally, that I’m not ill. But my body is telling me “Like hell you’re not. You’ve got a virus and we are attacking it.”
It’s very odd
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April Fool’s ldo
I’m eligible to be drafted in the MLB draft.
I think the passing judgment of people getting vaccines is overblown. However I’m not sure what to do with this one. My sister in law is a 39 year old stay at home mom in Connecticut. They’re currently only open to 60+, frontline workers, education workers, and people in high risk conditions.
She sits on the board of an education charity (they do like one big event a year) and she signed up for the vaccine website and put down that she’s “Education personnel”. I’m torn between “Just get the shots in arms” and “Don’t blatantly lie when it’s not your turn to get it”.
Also, purely anecdotal, but it feels like cases are ticking back up again. In the past 3 days, 2 people my wife works with (remote thankfully) and one person in my 20 person office have tested positive. Obviously not a perfect science, but between weather turning, restrictions loosening, enough people feeling like vaccination rates make it safe now, I wouldn’t be shocked if we had one more small surge here before vaccines and warm weather help suppress cases for good.
Just be thankful she’s not in a strident Facebook antivaxx cult group with a bunch of other stay at home moms.
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It’s a different technique entirely.
The blood clot problems are probably overblown and from what I read yesterday aren’t more represented than in the population as a whole, but you can understand people being cautious.
Also they seem to have come from one particular batch of the vaccine, so if they are vaccine-related hopefully it’s an anomaly.
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I think pretty much every state probably should be doing this by April 1st.
Covid transmission drops 30% after one vaccine dose - study
Transmission of Covid-19 drops by at least 30% after a person has one dose of a vaccine, a new study suggests.
Public Health Scotland and the University of Glasgow monitored 300,000 NHS workers between 8 December - the first day of vaccination in Scotland - and 3 March.
The researchers looked at the records of people who lived with vaccinated and unvaccinated healthcare workers, finding the workers who had had one dose were at least 30% less likely to have passed the virus on.
Given that people living with healthcare workers could also catch the virus from other sources, researchers say the 30% figure is a low estimate.
Those who had had both doses of vaccine were found to have been at least 54% less likely to have transmitted the virus.
So it’s a little more open (55+ plus) and a little less open (only education workers if you’re pre-K to 12 staff and separately, high risk health conditions don’t qualify you anymore). Gotta wait until your age group qualifies.
I know a bunch of people that actually teach in person classes at the university level (currently remote though) and they don’t qualify because the “education” only encompasses pre-K to 12 workers.
That being said, more shots in arms the better, even if makes my wait a week or two longer. I’m over the disappointment after the governor changed his approach two weeks ago from allowing people with underlying conditions to going strictly age-based access. I thought all those years of extra pizza slices would pay off but it was not to be.
I don’t think anywhere should be promising this if they have currently have problems finding appointments for people who are eligible.
Georgia is opening up eligibility for everyone who is overweight on Monday. Eat shit hotties!
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UP ahead of the curve yet again
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When an article points out why it’s a bad study in the article itself, it’s a bad study
Well they luckily voted Dem for senate and president so we won’t have people on here not caring if they get vaccines or not
I see what you did there
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Got my first dose. I was asked for work ID. I lied and said I got paid under the table as a pizza delivery guy. She let me through.
If you’re not eligible yet just lie.
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