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Apex wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 9:03 pm My supervisors sister just passed from the ‘VID this past weekend.
Sorry to hear it man. My AA sponsor's M-I-L succumbed a few weeks ago.
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Irish wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 8:57 pm Oh man, prayers for your cousin man.

The first dose gave me slight arm pain the following day, that was it.

I had to keep trying various sites to get in. I had signed up on the county sites but I also got on lists at hospitals and pharmacies. I hit a bingo at a supermarket Pharmacy in the town my office is in (Hershey).
Thanks mang.

Glad you got your shot so quickly!
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Apex wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 9:03 pm My supervisors sister just passed from the ‘VID this past weekend.
Dang. Sorry to hear that. :(
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Apex wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 9:03 pm My supervisors sister just passed from the ‘VID this past weekend.
Sorry to hear it man. My AA sponsor's M-I-L succumbed a few weeks ago.
:( Sorry man.
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Irish wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 9:13 pm
Apex wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 9:03 pm My supervisors sister just passed from the ‘VID this past weekend.
Sorry to hear it man. My AA sponsor's M-I-L succumbed a few weeks ago.
Sorry to hear. :sad:
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Irish wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 8:06 pm I hope everyone who had this godforsaken thing has recovered with no long term effects.

Wife unit and I just got the 1st dose of the Moderna Vaccine last week and are due for the second the first week of March. I hear the second dose can really eff a person up.... by setting off their immune system....but in for a penny, in for a pound.

Has anyone else gotten the shots? @Haleyann ?
A few of the older gens... no one has reported issues with Pfizer, but 2/4 of my dads friends who had moderna friends got major allergic reactions, which they now call “covid arm”.

However nothing more serious yet.

None of my younger friends (6) who got it reported any side effects, but the younger folk are all medical field getting Pfizer. So in my small circle of people 2/10 had some issues but nothing major. And once again usually on the older side
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My dad got the Pfizer vaccine, no issues. My mom won't get the vaccine because the "virus is fake". This is after her cousin who she loved dearly died from the virus last year. She said he probably died from something else but the hospital labeled it as COVID to get money.

I.....wow. Luckily she never goes anywhere so she's at minimal risk, but still...
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Detroit wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:09 am My dad got the Pfizer vaccine, no issues. My mom won't get the vaccine because the "virus is fake". This is after her cousin who she loved dearly died from the virus last year. She said he probably died from something else but the hospital labeled it as COVID to get money.

I.....wow. Luckily she never goes anywhere so she's at minimal risk, but still...
She comes from a country where her government lied to her and generations before her. A lot of immigrants on on that flex.
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Tarspin wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:27 am
Detroit wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:09 am My dad got the Pfizer vaccine, no issues. My mom won't get the vaccine because the "virus is fake". This is after her cousin who she loved dearly died from the virus last year. She said he probably died from something else but the hospital labeled it as COVID to get money.

I.....wow. Luckily she never goes anywhere so she's at minimal risk, but still...
She comes from a country where her government lied to her and generations before her. A lot of immigrants on on that flex.
Nah, she's been in Murica her entire life. Just bought into the :caspian: :bs: being spewed by conservatives.
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She comes from a country where her government lied to her and generations before her. A lot of immigrants on on that flex.
Nah, she's been in Murica her entire life. Just bought into the :caspian: :bs: being spewed by conservatives.
Mah bad, well then, she comes from a country where here government lies to her and generations before her. A lot of Americans on that flex.
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It's a fucked up world we live in.
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Nah, she's been in Murica her entire life. Just bought into the :caspian: :bs: being spewed by conservatives.
Mah bad, well then, she comes from a country where here government lies to her and generations before her. A lot of Americans on that flex.
:iswydt: :lol:

It's a fucked up world we live in.
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Detroit wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:09 am My dad got the Pfizer vaccine, no issues. My mom won't get the vaccine because the "virus is fake". This is after her cousin who she loved dearly died from the virus last year. She said he probably died from something else but the hospital labeled it as COVID to get money.

I.....wow. Luckily she never goes anywhere so she's at minimal risk, but still...
I have the same thing in my extended family. I don’t care if they die they die. It is literally impossible to find real information about the virus.
Our gov told us masks don’t work and now is saying stack multiple ... that’s one of hundreds of examples
That don’t make sense, but it’s most indicative of the issue.
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max225 wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:51 am
Detroit wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:09 am My dad got the Pfizer vaccine, no issues. My mom won't get the vaccine because the "virus is fake". This is after her cousin who she loved dearly died from the virus last year. She said he probably died from something else but the hospital labeled it as COVID to get money.

I.....wow. Luckily she never goes anywhere so she's at minimal risk, but still...
I have the same thing in my extended family. I don’t care if they die they die. It is literally impossible to find real information about the virus.
Our gov told us masks don’t work and now is saying stack multiple ... that’s one of hundreds of examples
That don’t make sense, but it’s most indicative of the issue.
This is the most :rage: inducing thing about the whole mess.....

By now the following should be common knowledge:

what exact co morbidities cause what percentage of hospitializations and deaths?
how exactly is it transferred?
where people are getting it...work, school, shopping, opening packages, drinking Trumps bathwater?

There are many others. I know some of the questions have been answered by now ...sort of... but even if they were, it should have been sooner.....

This information should be widely broadcast. Along with every leader, public figure and popular actor doing PSAs on every commecial break telling us to mask, mask, mask. WIth credible statistics and information about how countries that handled this much better did so.

Its time for this country to regain its sanity...and the only way for it to happen is for it to be fed a steady diet of the unvarnished truth.
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max225 wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:51 am
Detroit wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:09 am My dad got the Pfizer vaccine, no issues. My mom won't get the vaccine because the "virus is fake". This is after her cousin who she loved dearly died from the virus last year. She said he probably died from something else but the hospital labeled it as COVID to get money.

I.....wow. Luckily she never goes anywhere so she's at minimal risk, but still...
I have the same thing in my extended family. I don’t care if they die they die. It is literally impossible to find real information about the virus.
Our gov told us masks don’t work and now is saying stack multiple ... that’s one of hundreds of examples
That don’t make sense, but it’s most indicative of the issue.
I love my mother, but she's a miserable person so if she dies, she dies. It would be the world taking mercy on her.

And agreed, we don't know the truth about the virus, and never will. I'll just do what makes sense to me...stay away from people and wear the mask that just isn't that annoying anyway.
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Irish wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 8:06 pm I hope everyone who had this godforsaken thing has recovered with no long term effects.

Wife unit and I just got the 1st dose of the Moderna Vaccine last week and are due for the second the first week of March. I hear the second dose can really eff a person up.... by setting off their immune system....but in for a penny, in for a pound.

Has anyone else gotten the shots? @Haleyann ?
I know a few who have (Haley has). Most seem to report fairly significant side effects with the second dose, I've heard about a lot of pretty intense arm pain. I have been trying to get creative to find a way to get vaccinated. I'm signed up to volunteer at vaccination events (no spots available for this at the moment). I'm also looking at some events where you can wait in line for a leftover dose from a no show/cancellation.

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Detroit wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:31 am
Tarspin wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:27 am

She comes from a country where her government lied to her and generations before her. A lot of immigrants on on that flex.
Nah, she's been in Murica her entire life. Just bought into the :caspian: :bs: being spewed by conservatives.
The amount of :caspians: among people I formerly thought to be sane is pretty astounding really. In my limited sample data there has been no karma in terms of getting killed by the Rona.
The deniers/whocares/don'ttreadonme peeps get the Rona and live, the people who get smoked are trying to avoid it.
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Irish wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 8:06 pm I hope everyone who had this godforsaken thing has recovered with no long term effects.

Wife unit and I just got the 1st dose of the Moderna Vaccine last week and are due for the second the first week of March. I hear the second dose can really eff a person up.... by setting off their immune system....but in for a penny, in for a pound.

Has anyone else gotten the shots? @Haleyann ?
I know a few who have (Haley has). Most seem to report fairly significant side effects with the second dose, I've heard about a lot of pretty intense arm pain. I have been trying to get creative to find a way to get vaccinated. I'm signed up to volunteer at vaccination events (no spots available for this at the moment). I'm also looking at some events where you can wait in line for a leftover dose from a no show/cancellation.

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Nah, she's been in Murica her entire life. Just bought into the :caspian: :bs: being spewed by conservatives.
The amount of :caspians: among people I formerly thought to be sane is pretty astounding really. In my limited sample data there has been no karma in terms of getting killed by the Rona.
The deniers/whocares/don'ttreadonme peeps get the Rona and live, the people who get smoked are trying to avoid it.
My mother has always viewed Democrats as the downfall of society. I remember when Clinton was elected, she was convinced the country was screwed and made a huge deal about it.

In Meatchicken, we have a democratic governor who's viewed by many (myself included) as using the COVID situation for personal political gain making illogical decisions with lockdowns and whatnot. Overall IDGAF, but to my mother it makes the virus political and casts doubt on every single "fact" shared by the .gov. It's really sad.
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Detroit wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:31 pm
Desertbreh wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:16 pm

The amount of :caspians: among people I formerly thought to be sane is pretty astounding really. In my limited sample data there has been no karma in terms of getting killed by the Rona.
The deniers/whocares/don'ttreadonme peeps get the Rona and live, the people who get smoked are trying to avoid it.
My mother has always viewed Democrats as the downfall of society. I remember when Clinton was elected, she was convinced the country was screwed and made a huge deal about it.

In Meatchicken, we have a democratic governor who's viewed by many (myself included) as using the COVID situation for personal political gain making illogical decisions with lockdowns and whatnot. Overall IDGAF, but to my mother it makes the virus political and casts doubt on every single "fact" shared by the .gov. It's really sad.
Its much the same here in the Blessed lands. Democratic state because of Philly and Pittsburgh, the rest of this humongous state are dyed-in-the-wool Republicunts who blame all our ills on the democratic governor. While I frankly think he did a objectively damn good job with the virus.
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I know a few who have (Haley has). Most seem to report fairly significant side effects with the second dose, I've heard about a lot of pretty intense arm pain. I have been trying to get creative to find a way to get vaccinated. I'm signed up to volunteer at vaccination events (no spots available for this at the moment). I'm also looking at some events where you can wait in line for a leftover dose from a no show/cancellation.

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Detroit wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:31 pm
My mother has always viewed Democrats as the downfall of society. I remember when Clinton was elected, she was convinced the country was screwed and made a huge deal about it.

In Meatchicken, we have a democratic governor who's viewed by many (myself included) as using the COVID situation for personal political gain making illogical decisions with lockdowns and whatnot. Overall IDGAF, but to my mother it makes the virus political and casts doubt on every single "fact" shared by the .gov. It's really sad.
Its much the same here in the Blessed lands. Democratic state because of Philly and Pittsburgh, the rest of this humongous state are dyed-in-the-wool Republicunts who blame all our ills on the democratic governor. While I frankly think he did a objectively damn good job with the virus.
At the core of it, the .gov has one job...to protect people. I can't fault any politician for taking this thing seriously and doing whatever is in their power to do SOMETHING whether you agree with it or not.

The problem is, there's state like Florida that just let the thing go, and nothing bad seems to have happened. That gives all these "dyed-in-the-wool Republicunts" fodder for :fakenews: and whatnot.

I take a more libertarian point of view, but I can recognize that people are dumb and need to forced to do certain things. Whatever, I'm just going to do me. I've survived not going to restaurants just fine.
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Irish wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 8:06 pm I hope everyone who had this godforsaken thing has recovered with no long term effects.

Wife unit and I just got the 1st dose of the Moderna Vaccine last week and are due for the second the first week of March. I hear the second dose can really eff a person up.... by setting off their immune system....but in for a penny, in for a pound.

Has anyone else gotten the shots? @Haleyann ?
I know a few who have (Haley has). Most seem to report fairly significant side effects with the second dose, I've heard about a lot of pretty intense arm pain. I have been trying to get creative to find a way to get vaccinated. I'm signed up to volunteer at vaccination events (no spots available for this at the moment). I'm also looking at some events where you can wait in line for a leftover dose from a no show/cancellation.

:popcorn:
:impressive: Ive said before and I'll say it again, you're a good guy, Dan. The fact bolded above hould move you to the group at the head of the line IMO. I was in the first group (Group 1A here in PA) because of both my occupation and my underlying medical condition(s). But frankly, the pharmacy that gave me my shot checked neither. Just sayin'
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max225 wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:51 am

I have the same thing in my extended family. I don’t care if they die they die. It is literally impossible to find real information about the virus.
Our gov told us masks don’t work and now is saying stack multiple ... that’s one of hundreds of examples
That don’t make sense, but it’s most indicative of the issue.
This is the most :rage: inducing thing about the whole mess.....

By now the following should be common knowledge:

what exact co morbidities cause what percentage of hospitializations and deaths?
how exactly is it transferred?
where people are getting it...work, school, shopping, opening packages, drinking Trumps bathwater?

There are many others. I know some of the questions have been answered by now ...sort of... but even if they were, it should have been sooner.....

This information should be widely broadcast. Along with every leader, public figure and popular actor doing PSAs on every commecial break telling us to mask, mask, mask. WIth credible statistics and information about how countries that handled this much better did so.

Its time for this country to regain its sanity...and the only way for it to happen is for it to be fed a steady diet of the unvarnished truth.
:dat:
Fortunately, sanity and unfettered :science: has returned to the CDC so we're on our way to real information on the 'vid.

Also, re changing info, it shouldn't be surprising. As knowledge has grown about this whole thing, info, data, etc, has changed to reflect the new knowledge. That's how science works. It isn't static and unchanging like :jesus:
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Vaccine is coming, I am really not worried about availability or catching the VID before hand. We went through shit 10x worse if the numbers are to be believed and I'd rather wait for the beta testers to come back with news that hopefully won't be suppressed. By April which is a mere 5 weeks away I fully expect most people that WANT it can get it. And we're 12 months into this mess already, what's a paltry 5 weeks.

On a related note: I am really shocked at how much the negative publicity about the vaccines is being censored and suppressed. Let THE PEOPLE DECIDE. If they are too dumb to find fact from fiction they don't deserve a vaccine. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE SIDE EFFECTS ARE. As opposed to some random bs where i am told it's 95% effective. I don't GAF. My population group's immune system is 99.98% effective against the virus so let us choose, and vaccinate those that are likely to die from it.
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