Apparently there is a nation-wide bucatini shortage.
What I learned from this article is that I’ve been missing out on the best kind of pasta 
ETA: And by ‘nation-wide’ I mean the US…maybe other countries can still get this.
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That article is hilarious.
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I feel you. Librarians were included in the CDC’s July work group definition of essential workers at high risk who should be prioritized. But the interim guidance from December doesn’t mention library workers in any phase, at all. I honestly think it was an oversight rather than an intentional omission, because libraries often get overlooked in cases like these, or people think that we’re lumped in with education. Or museums. Or retail. Or government. And my state is doing vaccines county by county. So my librarian friend in the next county over got the vaccine today because she was counted as a municipal worker, but my county is no where close to that point yet ( and I don’t know how–or if–they will classify library workers anyway)
I don’t think I should be at the front of the line by any means. But I’d like to know where I am in line. And I do think that it makes sense for public library workers (and others who work closely with the public, even if they aren’t “essential”) to be ahead of people who are working at home, but I don’t know if that will happen.
Oh, and now that I’m looking even further into it, another neighboring county that I’ll call Richy Richville is doing an incredible job vaccinating and is way ahead of other counties. I technically sub at a library in Richy Richville, but I haven’t actually worked there since the pandemic started. They are running a sign-up list on the county’s website, so I could try to get in line that way, but that seems kind of shady.
It’s funny because at first I thought I was going to be a bit hesitant about the vaccine but now I’m like, “SHUT UP AND STICK IT IN MY ARM!”
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Same, same. I was all “well they rushed the trials maybe?” But that was when I was 3 months in and now my tune is more like, “welp I bet zombies are immune to covid and get plenty of sunshine sign me UP”
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Does anyone else feel like “I have no medical experience, but, shit, train ME and I will happily volunteer to help stab people in the arm”? Since so many states are saying they lack personnel to give shots?
Just me, then?
I have given a cat insulin shots, surely it can’t be that much harder?
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I felt better about it once I learned more about how the vaccine works from scientific sources.
I was a little hesitant at first but mainly that’s because we haven’t been able to trust a word that comes out of anyone in the administration’s mouths for 4 years now so I assumed they were lying about the vaccine too and saying it was safe so that we’d all go back to our in-person jobs and start spending money and traveling and dining out again.
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Haha oh I was being hyperbolic. I feel 100% ok with it! Thousands of people have gotten it and are fine 🤷
Yes. Like, I would 100% take a “give people a shot” certification and do this.
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Today the mayor said it’s going to take a year and a half to vaccinate all of Chicago at our current rate.
I cannot hide in my house and not go into a building ever for another year and a half. Except, I have to.
This all sucks.
Curious whether anyone’s mayor has gotten the vaccine yet? Ours hasn’t. That actually surprised me. Continuity of government and all that.
The mayor did say that they’re looking for volunteers who are licensed healthcare providers to give shots, but that is not me.
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Sounds good to me. I mean, I had to give myself shots for IVF so I’m half trained right?
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My province has decided to create a college program to train people to give shots and have people finish the program before they start mass immunization. Shockingly, we have the worst immunization rate in north america.
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The Library Director from the rich county sent an email to all employees and suggested we all sign up on the county website to get in line for the vaccine, and she was hoping that they would offer it to all public employees soon. So I went ahead and did it. If this comes through I may end up getting the vaccine because of the job I work at maybe 4 hours per month in normal times (and 0 hours a month now) instead of the one I work at 50 hours a week. But it’s not like the virus can’t cross county lines, so I am trying not to feel too bad about it. We’ll see if I’m actually offered the vaccine anytime soon before I wrestle fully with the ethical implications.
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The vaccine would probably hurt less if we did it in our asses like a trigger shot anyway. It’s a much bigger muscle! Pretty sure the only reason vaccines are given in the upper arm instead of the hip area is so you don’t have to take your pants off.
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It would definitely make those drive thru vaccination clinics much harder.
I know in my area we are approving medical students to give the vaccine as a help to handle the increase in doses put out.
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One of our hospital systems up here is using the nursing students lol. But that’s not unusual- that’s what we do for flu clinics too a lot.
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As far as I can tell we have no shortage of people who can give needles. We have a shortage of vaccines and information
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Oh, we have that too. But the mayor said the main sticking point, no pun intended, is staffing and paying the staff. There aren’t enough people to give the shots and also manage everything else re the pandemic, apparently.
There’s probably some law against having volunteers do this, like, how you’re not supposed to take volunteers if you are a corporation. But, desperate times.
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It’s probably more about making sure everyone is covered by liability insurance. So med students and nursing students just need a supervising practitioner (here) and then they can do a lot.
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The mayor wants to reopen restaurants and bars. Because she says since they are closed, people are gathering in homes instead and spreading the virus there.
Like… it won’t spread in restaurants and bars too?
There is just no good answer here, I realize. People are just not going to NOT gather, and we are all fuct because they won’t stop gathering.
People will be like, why not both? Let’s eat out in restaurants AND have house parties! And it will spread.
I feel like the second rates come down a TINY bit here, then our leaders reopen shit and then it gets bad again.
But I don’t want businesses to fail either.
A bar got closed down because apparently they have been having nightly unmasked crowds, including the owner of the bar passing around a bottle of vodka and having customers all drink directly from the same bottle. Putting their mouths right on it.
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OBVIOUSLY the alcohol kills all the bad germs, so they’ll be fine.
Seriously, though. There’s zero actual thought put into that policy, I’m sorry. That’s super frustrating.
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