You’re all leaving out the extremely important fact that it was an Aussie who cracked it.
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H is getting vaccinated on Saturday. Some of his coworkers have said they’re going to “wait it out” and not get the vaccine yet which just blows my mind. They are exposed to so many people a day just by the nature of their work which also means that they could be exposing so many others. Barring legitimate health reasons to wait on the vaccine, it seems incredibly cavalier to me to be like “ehh I’ll wait and see what other people do before I get it” 
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Omggggggggggggg
Sorry, that is a very unhelpful reply. Got something similar from my sister the other day until I explained to her that by the time she’s eligible for it, there will me millions of people who have already had it months ahead of her and then walked her through the vaccine myth debunking posts.
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What are people even scared of re: vaccine???
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i mean, untested mostly. it was a fast development, it’s a new kind of vaccine (from what I understand) and we don’t know realllly know how it interacts with a bunch of stuff. Also, this is america and you’re likely to have about 24 hours of symptoms after you get it and we don’t have paid sick days 
(just to be clear, I’m hopeful to get it asap but waiting to see if I can since I am on entercept)
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Reactions maybe? I’m nervous for H because he is a person who seems to get all the side effects and has had a bad reaction to a flu shot before, but those things pale in comparison to my concerns if he should get covid, so I honestly have no idea. He has zero qualms about getting it. He was basically just glad he only works a half day Saturday and can sleep the rest of the weekend if he should need to.
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They said anyone with severe food allergies to just…not get this round
It looks like 5/7 of the general vaccines are fine for people on my drug, but 2 of them are live vaccines and are not
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Ah. I’m kind of excited it’s a new kind of vaccine. The way it works sounds really ingenious!
But yeah, I hadn’t considered the risk for high risk people so that is totally a blind spot and my privilege. Also that I get paid sick days. Sorry all!
Eta: ALSO. maybe this is what causes the zombies and jokes on me
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I hadn’t heard it was food allergies, just anyone who has a lot of allergies (from a random internet comment, so take that for what it’s worth) so that seemed really broad. But yes [tin foil hat type stuff ahead!] one of my concerns a few weeks ago was “What if they find out a couple months in that maybe it’s not great for people with a family history of heart attacks/aneurysms/shit circulatory systems?” Or substitute other categorical health issues. Or people who think cilantro tastes like soap. Or people with webbed feet. Basically what if it takes a while for a pattern to appear among random group X of people but then those people are fucked.
Also with so many different vaccines in progress it feels a bit like shopping for socks on Amazon. Well sure I could get socks, but short ones, long ones, solid color, patterned, silly ones, cotton, fuzzy ones…? Let me comparison shop! So, being in the habit of comparison shopping for freaking everything these days, because internet, what if one shot is somehow ineffably better than the others? I should research! But no, I have no spoons and never mind that I can’t grok the medical studies even when I do find links …
But at this point I’ve heard enough that I’m taking whatever I can get, ASAP. Gimme gimme gimme.
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Word in the groups for people with my disorder is that it causes a weeks-long flareup. It’s unclear if all of them cause this or just some. If it’s all I’ll just plan to be incapacitated for 2 or 3 weeks after each of the shots.
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As an aside, it will still be possible in some cases for those vaccinated to spread it. They’ll just be asymptomatic.
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LOL, as someone who is an avid Mira Grant fan… yeah. 
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I thought it was anyone with allergies severe enough to require an epipen? No?
That’s mostly food, right? Bee stings… what else?
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Polyethylene glycol too
I met a person on zoom today who has anaphylaxis responses to bleach so 
humans are weird. We can be allergic to like. Anything LOL
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Yeah it’s bizarre right? But the nice thing is one the initial reaction is dealt with, people seem good to go.
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I’m allergic to benadryl. This never ceases to amuse my doctor.
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Wait, what? This is the first I am hearing about this (though I am pretty far down the list I think). Like… technically I should have an epipen. I was prescribed one. (And I do not have one because they are too freaking expensive and also I’ve had weird insurance for a while now.) Any allergy that causes anaphylaxis. So like… all nut allergies, maybe shellfish, maybe other foods, definitely bee sting allergies… That’s like… a lot of people?
Can I not have the vaccine?
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Yeah admittedly I have not dug in at ALL, but I thought it was just if you had VACCINE reactions in the past.
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Cal, yes from what I read all the issues you mentioned would preclude someone from getting the vaccine.
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