tx you'll have a very solid foundation of protection in a couple weeks. Still get #2 100% obv.

gotta be Onion

standard for FL imo

encourages parents to get religious vax exempts and has chiropractor on staff to give "adjustments" to 5 year olds

India +362,902 new cases and +3,285 deaths is insane where these numbers appear to be grossly under reported

chinese media has videos of indians doing cremations in the middle of the road

there's a major rivalry between the two countries where both sides seem to obsess over competing over who's rising out of poverty faster so there's major schadenfreude in media coverage of the other in both countries

Hindus need to have the bodies cremated within a certain time period?
So probably are burning bodies in the street.

When I got the first shot, it was like the biggest spreading event I've seen this pandemic began. Was uncomfortable with it but definitely to worth to get all the shots done in time.
Everyone masked but impossible to keep your distance all day. No new infections happened there though AFAIK.
So yeah, not hard to imagine - that's a beat for sure!

Slight disagreement between my brother and a young lady
“I am not getting the vax, it might stop me getting pregnant “
“Try dying of COVID-19, that will certainly stop you getting pregnant “

pro move would have been to offer to help speed things along

And the risk of dying or getting seriously ill from a communicable disease wasn't 0% before COVID.

There have always been negative consequences to taking measures to protect ourselves from the spread of COVID -- economic consequences, psychological consequences, educational consequences, non-COVID health consequences, etc.

The higher the COVID risk is, the more sense it makes for seach person, and society at large, to absord these negative consequences in exchange for reducing COVID risk. But it has always been a balancing act. And vaccination changes that balancing act enormously at both the individual and societal level--so much so that most people should be deciding to return to something very close to normal life in a month or two.

People like these school founders always seem so egotistical to me. Some people need very badly to feel like they have special knowledge.

Was listening to the Sam Harris Making Sense podcast, he had a guest on talking about the threat of synthetically engineered pandemics (imagine terrorists taking Covid and manipulating it so that it is x times more fatal and x times more contagious - think the lethality of MERS but spreads easier than Covid). Pretty scary stuff right out of Stephen King's The Stand. At a certain level society shuts down. And of course it would not need to be terrorists, such a pandemic could arise out of nature also.

Anyway it made me realize how ridiculously lucky mankind has been with this pandemic, as terrible as it's been. Easy to spread, but very low lethality and impacted mainly the aged. It could have easily been far far worse. As a dress rehearsal for a worse pandemic in a few years, this has been pretty much a global s***show.

no side effects from shot #2 for me. took day off anyway

You deserve it

getting moderna #1 saturday, planning on driving 12 hours sunday. bad idea?

I had #1 Moderna yesterday and don't feel different. Driving 12 hours is always a bad idea.

~24 hrs and just sore arm #fingerscrossed

nice. more like 9-10 hours actual driving with a couple hours extra for stops. wish there were direct flights to tijuana from northern california

I think the Harris podcast, to which I also listened, barely touched the surface of how dangerous this technology is.

Got my second Pfizer dose on Saturday morning. Was ready for the worst, but I just felt a little achy with a slight fever that night. Went to bed early and was ready to rock on Sunday, whereupon I proceeded to get hellaciously drunk and stoned. Been feeling perfectly fine the past few days, sore arm being the only effect that lingered more than 24 hours.

We're not out of the woods yet.

Another interesting podcast I heard was today's NYTimes The Daily, had a reporter who lives in India talking about the Covid situation there. Sounds truly horrible.

Interestingly they had a strict lockdown last Spring and escaped the first wave better than most. It does lend credence to the argument that strict lockdowns only pushed infections forward. The only way they would work would be to lockdown until the vaccine was widely distributed.

And then they started having huge super spreader events.

Eh, not sure if that conclusion is true. Sounds like they had the lockdown, then tried to return to life as normal with large religious gatherings and very little mask usage. If they would have had the large lockdown, and then continued social distancing + masks, I'm sure they wouldn't be where they are now.

My brother lives in the Florida panhandle. He saw this sign in the back of a truck window.

It's tough to read, but the sign says, "Stay home if you sick. Come over if you thick. #Covid-19"