Yay!
I warn you, it’s been almost 12 hours since the shot and my arm hurts like a motherfucker. Still nothing else yet.
And for those those who were following on my journal, I did pull up to the vaccine site blasting “shots shots shots”. It made the check in guy giggle uncontrollably. He made me promise to play it again when I got to the lady who actually gave the vaccine. Apparently some people are being ungrateful assholes and complaining about getting the shot.
Man, I think it was my last Gardasil? Was in my butt and I was so sore I couldn’t walk hahaha. FUN. Can’t wait for that and intense fever. #stillbetterthancovidtho
This is amazing.
Thank you for making someone’s day brighter!
Get it.
This vaccine just needs to get into people.
If you don’t get it, I think it’s more likely that no one fills your spot, rather than it going to the next person, at least in a reasonable time frame, the roll out is so slow and seemingly random.
Jesus Christ. It was just reported that 1/3 of the doses that have been sent to my province have been administered. Two thirds of available doses have been sitting in a freezer, and more are being shipped here while very few vaccines are being administered. Also the Province hasn’t hired or appointed anyone to organize a mass vaccination program and hasn’t hired anyone to give the vaccinations. They rented out the convention centre to be a vaccination centre but haven’t hired anyone to work there. They are in talks with the community college to start a certification program so health care aides and other non-nurse/ doctor medical people can give the shots. Apparently the plan is that they start the college program, get people trained, hire them next year, give us the vaccine then?
Many prominent members of the government are vocally anti-vax so this shouldn’t surprise me.
And the UK strain escaped hotel quarantine here via a cleaner. (It’s almost like having a casual workforce isn’t working out so well during a pandemic?). The infected person was infectious on the train network. I think our luck may be running low.
We have immediately locked down aged care and hospitals. I hope so much that it is enough. People have become very complacent with social distancing, hand sanitiser, etc here.
How much do we still need hand sanitizer? I thought we’ve pretty much decided it’s not surface born.
But social distancing is hugely important, since it is in the air.
It is surface borne, just generally not at a high enough viral load to be infectious. But the new strain is more infectious and may not require as high a viral load, so I think we are back to not having a very good estimate of the relative risks of surface contamination.
Totally agree with getting it right now. I had a smidge of vaccine guilt because I’m currently working very part time. But not really, since I see covid patients & have plenty of exposure when I do work. Also, it was all hands on deck in NYC back in April; I hope things won’t be like that ever again, but you never know, and it’s good to be fully vaccinated to prepare. Didn’t you say you’re trained in trach and vent management? If things get truly bad in your area, you’ll be getting calls from the governor’s office.
Also agree that everyone should get the shot as soon as they’re eligible; no second-guessing. In this pandemic, what’s safer for one is safer for all. Even though my husband has to go to work in-person every day, he’s in group 1c, which in my area is projected to be eligible starting March-April. So until then, I’m going to primarily be the person in our household going into stores & getting groceries.
I had arm soreness starting ~6h after the shot & then felt very tired and crappy the next day, but had no fever or anything like that. My BIL got pretty sick with T101, and some people I’ve heard were quite sick for 2 days afterwards.
And now a rep from Kansas announced he tested positive. Found out 4 hours after he voted. Fantastic!
I saw on Twitter (so of course it may or may not be true) that some D’s chose to shelter in less secure areas because the more secure areas were crowded and the R’s still wouldn’t put on masks.
if this is true, the R’s were still pulling this political shit during a crisis ?!?! bleeeh
Fyck
One of the congresswomen who spoke to news yesterday said that some of the republicans were not wearing masks even though some had been offered to them.
And I say again, JFC. Some of them were putting on fucking gas masks, seems like the wrong time to be picky about not wanting to wear regular N95s or cloth masks.
Heard back. “You’re a nurse, you qualify 
I’ve got you on the list, they’ll contact you soon”
So… there we go! Very, very much hope the BFing/TTC guidance is right 
I hate having to operate on minimal data.
100% please get it, not just because I like you, but because we’re seeing in Oregon that part of the issue with distribution is that once a vial is open, there’s 10-11 vaccines in a vial and they need to be used. Random reporters that happen to be in the room are getting it because there’s “leftover”. I know a therapist who has been doing only zoom therapy who got it last week. So, yes, get it, OR admitted trying to prioritize every level of risk of health care workers is why we’re screwing up distribution, just more people need to get it. Esp since your husband does on-site essential services stuff. Just reducing risk of you getting it passed on, even though I know he’s being super careful.
One of my friends got it, here in Iowa, because she was in the hospital for a totally unrelated reason and someone asked in a waiting room if anyone wanted it because the vial had 3 more doses.
This is out of Washington’s supply though, which I’m having a hard time figuring out how they’re doing with distribution.
(Which is also the sort of thing you don’t think about- this office location is WA, but about 75% of our patients are Oregon. All our nurses are getting offered the vaccine via WA. Even the ones who live in OR. What a weird system)
Yea, I’m just saying that oregon has admitted that part of WHY they’re doing so poorly with distribution is they tried to be too granular with risk (i.e. long-term facility care workers first, then ICU workers then…) and that is part of the issue. Because they have like 20 employees at one care facility, and then 2 open vials, and no one who qualifies as 1a.
Essentially, trying to be specific is part of why it’s going so poorly here. And we know everyone* needs to get it for herd immunity.
70%