Getting vaccinated

[dales]

Not until August.

[liberty]

Tell Trump to do something. He's our real president, isn't he?

This is not about Trump or even Biden; it is about taking action to end the pandemic. It seems the only thing the Biden bastard is interested in is seizing and concentrating more power in the federal government, want to be Hitler. If the son of a bitch is not taking aggressive action to end the pandemic, we should at least criticize him for inaction.

[Big RR]

It seems the only thing the Biden bastard is interested in is seizing and concentrating more power in the federal government, want to be Hitler.

Hitler? Come on; who had his followers attack the reichstag (sorry, the capitol). I didn't see Biden do that.

[Scooter]

Republicans are resisting getting vaccinated so that lockdowns will be extended and Biden will be blamed. It is quintessential cutting off their nose to spite their face.

[TPFKA@W]

Someone I know, don't know her politics, is telling people that when she got the vaccine, her second dose, she put a magnet over the injection site and it pulled the skin outward as she removed it. (Presumably it stuck to the spot where the Bill Gates chip was inserted with the vaccine, and pulled the skin out as it was removed.) I guess then that no one who is fully vaccinated will ever be able to get an MRI again.

My conclusion is that people are nucking futz in general.

[Scooter]

I'm getting a Moderna shot next week after getting a first dose of AstraZeneca. I anticipate being able to receive signals sent by extraterrestrials looking to invade Earth. They will feed from the seven hairy nipples that will grow on my back.

[Long Run]

she put a magnet over the injection site and it pulled the skin outward as she removed it.

Reminds me of when magnet therapy was all the rage 15-20 years ago.

[TPFKA@W]

I'm getting a Moderna shot next week after getting a first dose of AstraZeneca. I anticipate being able to receive signals sent by extraterrestrials looking to invade Earth. They will feed from the seven hairy nipples that will grow on my back.

Speaking from experience, don't anticipate any superpowers. Instead expect to be a lot sicker than the first time and then stumble and stagger around as if you had taken a good quantity of alcohol. That lasted several days.

[Long Run]

Instead expect to be a lot sicker than the first time and then stumble and stagger around as if you had taken a good quantity of alcohol. That lasted several days.

Not that you want to be the award winner, but @W you had the worst side effects of anyone I have heard. I had a fever and was achy for a day, but I milked it for all it was worth like a real man.

[TPFKA@W]

Instead expect to be a lot sicker than the first time and then stumble and stagger around as if you had taken a good quantity of alcohol. That lasted several days.

Not that you want to be the award winner, but @W you had the worst side effects of anyone I have heard. I had a fever and was achy for a day, but I milked it for all it was worth like a real man.

Are you trying to imply that I am some kind of sissy? I felt like I had MAN FLU goddammit. I had a temp that hit 101 for about an hour. The staggering thing was alarming, but I heard others had that issue.

[Econoline]

[Gob]

They will feed from the seven hairy nipples that will grow on my back.

"will"?

[ex-khobar Andy]

Re the whole debate about where and how SARS-COV-2 originated, there's a good, politics-free, summary here. It's a Nature 'News Explainer' but you don't need to have a background in virology or epidemiology to understand it. In short: we don't know and there is not enough evidence yet either way. But that's not unusual, especially with coronaviruses.

[Scooter]

Washington State allows for free marijuana with Covid-19 vaccine

As part of its strategy to vaccinate more of its population, Washington State will allow adults to claim a free marijuana joint when they receive a Covid-19 vaccination shot.

The state’s liquor and cannabis board announced on Monday that the promotion, called “Joints for Jabs,” was effective immediately and would run through July 12.

The board said it would allow participating marijuana retailers to provide customers who are 21 or older with a prerolled joint at their stores when they received their first or second dose at an active vaccine clinic. The promotion applies only to joints, not to other products like edibles.

So far in Washington, 58 percent of people have received at least one dose, and 49 percent are fully vaccinated, according to a New York Times database.

Washington is not the only state to offer a cannabis promotion. An Arizona dispensary recently announced a similar campaign, providing free marijuana joints or gummy edibles to Arizonans 21 and older who receive a vaccination.

Washington’s liquor and cannabis board recently allowed for a free beer, wine or cocktail to residents with proof of vaccination.

Since the U.S. pace of vaccinations began to decline sharply in mid-April, states and cities have started promotions like free beer in New Jersey and a raffle to win full-ride college scholarships in New York and Ohio. Several states have held lotteries awarding cash prizes of $1 million or more.

Andy Slavitt, a White House virus adviser, has said the Biden administration was encouraging states to be creative — including through lotteries or other financial incentives — to get people vaccinated. The federal government is allowing states to use certain federal relief funds to pay for those types of programs.

[Gob]

Nicked!!

[Gob]

Bruce Springsteen is bringing glory days back to New York next week, when his show becomes the first to reopen on Broadway since the lights went out for the coronavirus pandemic. But fans without vaccinations approved by the US government will be left dancing in the dark.

The Boss has laid down strict rules for attendees of Springsteen on Broadway, which reopens on 26 June at the St James theatre. For admission, ticketholders must be able to prove they have received one of the three Covid-19 vaccinations with emergency use authorisation from the US Food and Drug Administration: the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines, or the single-shot Johnson & Johnson.

This means those who have had doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford jab, which is not approved for use in the US but is popular in Canada, the UK and other countries, will not be allowed in for what the show’s producers are billing “an intimate night with Bruce, his guitar, a piano and his stories”.

Understandably, the news was not well received in Canada, where the Toronto Star published a report on the perceived snub with the headline Burn in the USA, a play on the title of one of the 71-year-old Springsteen’s bestselling hits.


https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/ ... a-broadway

[Scooter]

I really don't see why Canadians who received the AZ vaccine should be complaining, as they shouldn't be travelling to New York for a concert while the border is closed to non-essential travel.

[ex-khobar Andy]

Interesting NPR piece yesterday. I won't post the whole transcript which you can read here in a few minutes but I'll paste a paragraph:

EDWARDS [President and CEO of CoxHealth in southwest Missouri]: I mean, there's a cultural shift in our staff right now. There was this great sense of teamwork and working together in the winter and fall, and now because of the - they know that everyone - every single case we have in the hospital is not vaccinated, they - our staff's exasperated, exasperated by the politics. They're exasperated by Facebook. They're exasperated by the misinformation. They're exasperated by lies. They're frustrated because they know that while we're taking care of all these patients, we have other patients that also need care, and they couldn't be prevented with a vaccine, where these could.

While we all applauded the nurses and doctors who risked (and in far too many cases lost) their lives when we were all in this together, it now seems that nurses object to being exposed to the virus because the patients are just too fucking lazy or ignorant to have a little jab. Personal freedom my ass (or arse if you prefer). It's my belief that if the jab was available to you and you refused, then you are responsible for the entire cost of your medical care. If you pour gasoline into your living room and then light a match, your homeowner insurance may be, rightly in my opinion, unlikely to cough up for the damage.

[Big RR]

And so, if someone eats a poor diet and has a heart attack, would you also deny them health coverage? Or falls cleaning the leaves out of his gutter because he was drinking? Or ignores his high blood pressure and has a stroke? It can go on and on.

Do you really want the health insurance companies to be health nannies to us all?

I agree covid is a public health concern and is different, but it shoudl be handled by the public health authorirties and not by giving insurers another out. I don't relish the thought of people being denied insurance and dying in the street like some third world country.

[Gob]

And so, if someone eats a poor diet and has a heart attack, would you also deny them health coverage? Or falls cleaning the leaves out of his gutter because he was drinking? Or ignores his high blood pressure and has a stroke? It can go on and on.

You cannot infect others by doing those things though. The companies are looking after their own interests.