I don’t know about the orgies, but I certainly haven’t waited to start on the wine.
Two people had an adverse reaction to the Pfizer vaccine in Alaska, one of those individuals without a history of allergies (and her reaction was the worse based on the description).
She experienced a rash over her face and torso, shortness of breath and an elevated heart rate.
Dr. Lindy Jones, the hospital’s emergency department medical director, said the worker was first given a shot of epinephrine, a standard treatment for severe allergic reactions. Her symptoms subsided but then re-emerged, and she was treated with steroids and an epinephrine drip.
When doctors tried to stop the drip, her symptoms re-emerged yet again, so the woman was moved to the intensive care unit, observed throughout the night, then weaned off the drip early Wednesday morning, Dr. Jones said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/health/covid-pfizer-vaccine-allergic-reaction.html
They’re saying that in Canada, everyone who wants a vaccine should have one by September. Everyone who wants one? The implications are irritating.
I wonder at what time we’ll be able to resume life without consideration of covid. September? Maybe before? Here’s hoping.
Though honestly, I’m not certain that I’m likely to change my new habits that much. I don’t see me changing masks and hand washing routines even when covid is controlled.
I’m dropping the mask as soon as possible and never picking it up again.
I’ll probably keep wearing masks for as long as I can get away with it.
I don’t mind wearing a mask too much. As long as my glasses don’t start fogging up I can almost get to the point that I don’t notice that I have one on.
Yep, 100%.
ditto
ditto
no ditto. There happened to be a pop up shop at Costco…where you fill out all your forms and then they send you back to the pharmacy. It was still free free free [red]and, since it was at Costco, it came in jumbo size[/red]
Had to get your whole family vaccinated at once?? Plus several neighbors???
I was thinking I’d “wait and see” on the vaccine, but now I think I’ll get it as soon as it’s recommended for my age group. The side effects I’m reading about—for the vast majority of people—are soreness at the injection site. While I have seasonal allergies (there’s just no off season here) and maybe cough variant asthma, my symptoms aren’t severe enough to cause concern.
I’ll also get the shingles vaccine when I can. I forgot to ask at my last appointment, so it will probably be March.
So, vaccine might not prevent spread as well as a vaccine should:
So basically the people who need the vaccine’s effects the most but cannot get it for one reason or another are going to be stuck living Groundhog Day indefinitely, possibly, while the people who could easily choose to get vaccinated but won’t are out living their best lives? Seems about right.
i would bet transmission rates from people vaccinated are significantly lower than people without…
so tranmission from vaccinated people will be >0, but dont go freaking out over it.
Not freakin’. Just expecting some vaccinated to think they don’t need to take precautions to protect others.
Once the vaccine has been generally available for a few months, it’s on people that choose not to get it to protect themselves, not on society to protect them from the consequences of their bad choices.
might be time to step back from the extreme fear of other people we allowed to overtake society in 2020.
Except for people who can’t get vaccinated due to allergies or other reasons.
I don’t feel bad for those who won’t, but it sucks for those who can’t.
But who suffers from their bad choices? Likely not them, but the immunocompromised who can’t get the vaccine at all. So how do we put that “on them”? They don’t care.
Fair, but that’s a fairly small number and we put that burden on the people with the issues for everything else – my son doesn’t safe food from the cafeteria at school due to his food allergies, he has to pack his own lunch on our dime, even though the district provides free lunch to every one else, for example.