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03-01-2021 , 07:44 PM

#14876

Tom Ames

They call me Doo Doo

Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 53,379

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Originally Posted by Villian1

Got my first dose of Pfizer today. Apparently in DE you take your first and second dose wherever you please and they don't schedule a second appointment for you. It's on you to then find the second dose.

Perhaps that's a way for more people to get the first dose?

Seems more like a way to create chaos.
Grats on getting the first dose!
And good luck in getting the second dose in a timely fashion!

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03-01-2021 , 08:19 PM

#14877

marknfw

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 16,230

Wow, that's pretty strange. Is that for everyone or just for the people who get it via the waitlist?

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03-01-2021 , 09:04 PM

#14878

5 south

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Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 7,825

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Originally Posted by Garick

"your right to swing your fist stops where my nose begins."

My freedom doesn't end where your fear begins is the popular derp retort to this.

Sigh

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03-01-2021 , 10:23 PM

#14879

nutella virus

banned

Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 3,622

I think we've all learned a lot abt that aholecovid. A lot of fear of the unknown has been replaced with data and facts. And while many of us aren't AS concerned as perhaps we were last april, those in low risk groups who can't be bothered to gaf abt spreading to vulnerable ppl surely deserve a swift kick in the balls

People comparing a virus to sugar, car crashes, etc are surely lacking a chromosome /rant

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03-01-2021 , 11:15 PM

#14880

Garick

Oberbiergenießer

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 28,032

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Originally Posted by Villian1

Washington State apparently does it this way too. My mom refers to it as "the hunger games." My folks got shot one, finally, after checking 26 websites a day for weeks. Now they're going to have to do it all over again for the second shot.

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03-01-2021 , 11:37 PM

#14881

Tom Ames

They call me Doo Doo

Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 53,379

Quote:

Originally Posted by Garick

Damn! I feel for them. If I'd had to go through the aggravation to schedule the 2nd shot that I did for the first one, I would have been raging homicidal. Fortunately my state got their scheduling software under control between my shots.

Good luck to your folks!

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03-02-2021 , 12:01 AM

#14882

Villian1

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Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 8,085

Yeah, the lady says to me, "just do the same thing you did to get this appointment".

I responded, "hit the lottery again? But this time, I can't just hit the lottery, I have to hit the Pfizer lottery, or it's no good"

So frustrating.

I can't wait to hear about all the people making appointments/getting the wrong damn vaccine. I'm assuming there are safeguards in place to prevent that, but probably not.

Last edited by Villian1; 03-02-2021 at 12:03 AM. Reason: I was very nice about it and thanked her for literally saving hundreds if not thousands of lives every single day.

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03-02-2021 , 12:20 AM

#14883

pokeraz

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 4,290

AZ switching to age based only now. Down to 55. I should qualify for the next group. Hopefully I can get one in April.

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03-02-2021 , 02:20 AM

#14884

filthyvermin

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Originally Posted by Nittery

The good news is that next year less people will die than normal.

that might not be true. probably a lot of older people with health problems died from covid. that could cause deaths to go down this year. but a lot of other factors could increase death. there is a lot more poverty. that is a huge factor in life expectancy.

and mental health has suffered big time this past year. and people are drinking more, probably eating worse, and getting less exercise.

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03-02-2021 , 06:46 AM

#14885

JayTeeMe

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One of my pharmacy technicians is hospitalized with COVID now. We got Pfizer 1 in December and dose 2 in mid January. Kinda shaking me as i was hoping to go out in public this week.

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03-02-2021 , 11:10 AM

#14886

that_pope

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Do you know they took the vaccine?

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03-02-2021 , 11:29 AM

#14887

revots33

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Originally Posted by JayTeeMe

One of my pharmacy technicians is hospitalized with COVID now. We got Pfizer 1 in December and dose 2 in mid January. Kinda shaking me as i was hoping to go out in public this week.

That's concerning as you'd think they would be at peak immunity (assuming they did in fact get the vaccine). Did they do any testing to see if it was one of the newer strains?

I guess the caveat is that they are great vaccines but 90% is not 100% in terms of prevention. We need most of the country to get vaccinated so the virus itself stops spreading.

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03-02-2021 , 12:47 PM

#14888

steamraise

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Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 10,716

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Originally Posted by Villian1

"hit the lottery again? But this time, I can't just hit the lottery, I have to hit the Pfizer lottery, or it's no good".

And you have to hit it in a specific time frame.

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03-02-2021 , 01:20 PM

#14889

AzOther1

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 4,348

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Originally Posted by pokeraz

AZ switching to age based only now. Down to 55. I should qualify for the next group. Hopefully I can get one in April.

I was "D'oh! Missed it by that >< much." (attributed to Homer J Smart) Here's to 50+ soon.

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03-02-2021 , 03:23 PM

#14890

57 On Red

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Originally Posted by Garick

The point is that sugar isn't contagious. You only risk yourself when you consume it.

Personally, I'm fine with people risking themselves. I disagree with seatbelt laws, though I would be fine with laws that said "if you don't wear a seatbelt, all healthcare costs in case of a crash are on you. The public and/or your insurance company won't pay them."

That would be a seatbelt law, though. Not wearing a seatbelt is antisocial. Most obviously it inflicts unnecessary and distressing work on first responders and medical staff. And the law also needs to eliminate liability for anyone else involved in the accident if a narcissist makes a point of getting hurt. So the law should be that you need to wear a seatbelt.

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03-02-2021 , 05:38 PM

#14891

golddog

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Biden just announced that J&J and Merck will be working together to ramp up production of the J&J vaccine.

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03-02-2021 , 07:05 PM

#14892

marknfw

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 16,230

Texas doing away with the mask mandate as well as any capacity restrictions. Good grief. My people really are dumb, aren't they? I guess the mask mandate thing really isn't a huge deal as it wasn't being enforced anywhere anyway. People who care will still wear them and idiots who don't weren't wearing them anyway, or if they were they were just protecting their chins.

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03-02-2021 , 07:22 PM

#14893

revots33

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Looks like cases are starting to tick upwards again, although not dramatically. Still a worrisome sign given that people are starting to be vaccinated (16% have gotten at least 1 dose and about 8% have gotten both, so still a long way to go). Uptick likely due to the new strains which will be dominant shortly in the US, if they aren't already. The UK had a rapid spike in cases as the new strain took hold. I work at a college in NY that had about 4 cases total among the students last year (small school of <2000 students). This semester already about a dozen. The new strains are much more easily transmitted.

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03-02-2021 , 07:24 PM

#14894

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 101,163

For the most part the only thing that's ever made a difference - in red or blue states - is when the hospitals fill up. With a lot of old/unhealthy vaccinated by now, I doubt rising cases alone are going to move the needle for any state to lockdown again.

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03-02-2021 , 07:34 PM

#14895

JoeC2012

veteran

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 2,717

Getting the J&J vaccine Saturday morning! Now just have to make sure I eat enough this week so my BMI doesn't dip below Virginia's requirements.

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03-02-2021 , 08:00 PM

#14896

JayTeeMe

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Originally Posted by that_pope

Do you know they took the vaccine?

Yes she did but update: She's sick with COVID and thus on the COVID floor but the reason for her hospitalization is something else.

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03-02-2021 , 08:04 PM

#14897

27offsuit

actions have consequences!

Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 38,842

Anything short of a new explosion of cases, and FL and TX will be all "Seee libtards, we shoulda never listened to y'all in the first place. Masks ain't no more useful than tits on a bull.."

Can't wait.

Really hoping the new variants reaching US are a nothingburger because I am defiantly getting very tired of looking ahead two weeks for a ****ing year now.

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03-02-2021 , 08:06 PM

#14898

Booker Wolfbox

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Originally Posted by JoeC2012

Getting the J&J vaccine Saturday morning! Now just have to make sure I eat enough this week so my BMI doesn't dip below Virginia's requirements.

A sacrifice worth making no doubt.

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03-02-2021 , 08:13 PM

#14899

razorbacker

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Originally Posted by revots33

Could be ticking up due to lack of testing the last few weeks because of the winter storms. Positivity rate around here has been going down consistently.