To Vaccinate or Not---The Rat Flu Odyssey Continues

[Adolf Allerbush]

Fair question: What woman in their right mind would want to fuck and/or bear a child from a [check notes] dirt worker?

Hope springs eternal?

My balls seem to have become larger and saggier with the vax. Does this help to attract women?

[RootSkier]

That's the price of freedumb, my good man... FREEDUMB!!

Don't forget kids getting shot in schools, also a small price to pay for FREEDUMB.

[CarlMega]

My balls seem to have become larger and saggier with the vax. Does this help to attract women?

Well, that makes sense. Gotta make room for that extra (and weighty) dna the shot gave ya.

Your 6G tinder reception will bring you bountiful 'swipe rights' so I'm going to say: yes.

[yeahman]

(MT ain't doing so hot, either).

Whaddya mean man? We're # 1 in the nation for cases per capita! GG and the Redumblicans kicking some aaassss!!!

[skaredshtles]

Don't forget kids getting shot in schools, also a small price to pay for FREEDUMB.

I believe that crushing medical debt is ALSO an inherent price of freedumb.

[old goat]

My point was that people (in this very thread) have either been told they must receive the same booster as their original immunization, or had to bend the truth to get something different. All of a sudden, it's a smorgasbord: all the vax you can take!

...and it's too soon, and I don't even qualify (but if I went this weekend, they'd take me no questions asked)

I signed up for a booster today online with CVS. I had to enter date of my last shot and DOB before I could book. But I have no doubt that anyone who wants a booster can get one if they are willing to fib.

It's been said a few times in this thread that boosters work better if you wait longer. I don't understand the immunochemistry behind that. My understanding is that the vaccine spacing would likely have been longer if we weren't in a pandemic and of course Canada and GB among others did wait longer but that was due to availability of doses, not immunology.

[bennymac]

Kinda equivalent to rapid series vs regular series of vaccines. If they’re too close together the circulating antibodies just mop up the recent dose and no long lasting boost occurs. It leads to great short term immunity (like if you want Hep A coverage for a rapidly approaching trip) but not longer term.

Vax experts can correct my understanding.

[seano732]

Anti-Maxxer meets fist in NYC:
https://twitter.com/debdrens/status/...558846470?s=21

“That’s assault”……What a coward.

ETA. CA

[wkd-rdr]

I will never, ever understand the galaxy brain required to think the vax is bad and scary but the monoclonal antibodies (and any other modern medical intervention) is A-OK. This country is too stupid to continue. If I didn't already have kids I'd 100% get snipped to prevent bringing any children into this fucked up country (MT ain't doing so hot, either).

Yeah, never develop any basic immunity with a vax, and clear the virus with fake immunity before you develop real immunity, so you never get actual immunity.
Keep coming back for more. Go big pharma!

[ill-advised strategy]

I heard Florida is trying to attract the antivax cops being flushed out of civilized places. What could possibly go wrong?

[seano732]

I heard Florida is trying to attract the antivax cops being flushed out of civilized places. What could possibly go wrong?

5k per.

[funkendrenchman]

16 hours since my Pfizer booster. Feels the same as my second shot - just a little sore.

[teletech]

Breakthrough infection. Got my second Pfizer in June. Pounding headache, stuffed nose. Kids out school for at least 2 weeks. 40 and raining. Puppies tearing through house. So annoying.

[SumJongGuy]

Anti-Maxxer meets fist in NYC:
https://twitter.com/debdrens/status/...558846470?s=21

“That’s assault”……What a coward.

ETA. CA

Thank you for that. I needed a laugh this morning

[ex-powderbroker]

Some interesting charts in this thread, I was led here by an anti-vaxxer complaining about results in England (that post is highlighted).

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/sta...567762442?s=21

[seano732]

Thank you for that. I needed a laugh this morning

Right?

[buttahflake]

Just got the boost in my left arm and added a flu shot for the right.
Let’s Party!

[::: :::]

“Do you need to wear a mask indoors where you live? Check this map”



It is remarkable that the southeast is the zone that has the highest density of any kind of lower risk suggesting less masking required. Is it because the virus has swept through those communities already?

The data for this map comes from the CDC. The color-coding is based on two metrics: the number of new cases per 100,000 residents and the percentage of coronavirus tests that come back positive in a seven-day period. (A high positivity rate indicates that the number of infections in a place may be high and that more testing needs to be done.)

If those two metrics show different levels of transmission in a given place, the CDC selects the higher level.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...y-covid-spread

[Adolf Allerbush]

“Do you need to wear a mask indoors where you live? Check this map”



It is remarkable that the southeast is the zone that has the highest density of any kind of lower risk suggesting less masking required. Is it because the virus has swept through those communities already?



https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...y-covid-spread

That is interesting. Part of the issue in Florida may be with bad data and that's by design. As I recall, about a year into the pandemic DeSantis didn't like the case counts coming out of FL so he abandoned state sponsored testing sites and also began to mess with the reporting so as to make it seem like things were better off. That said, it would make some sense that the southern states have had higher case loads for a long time and maybe are getting to some equilibrium between vaccinated and people who have recovered?

[ill-advised strategy]

That is interesting. Part of the issue in Florida may be with bad data and that's by design. As I recall, about a year into the pandemic DeSantis didn't like the case counts coming out of FL so he abandoned state sponsored testing sites and also began to mess with the reporting so as to make it seem like things were better off. That said, it would make some sense that the southern states have had higher case loads for a long time and maybe are getting to some equilibrium between vaccinated and people who have recovered?

Former wildland fire buddy is a city firefighter in the deep south. Says all 300 of his dept have tested positive at one time or another…so it’s serving as an inoculation of sorts.

[F#*k you cat]

I finished my vaccination in March. Saw the reports that the response can wane after 6 months. I went to my primary care physician and they refused to give me a booster. Citing FDA. I am not over 65 and work from home. Not high risk.

Not a smoker

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[SumJongGuy]

I finished my vaccination in March. Saw the reports that the response can wane after 6 months. I went to my primary care physician and they refused to give me a booster. Citing FDA guidelines. I am not over 65 and work from home. Not high risk.

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Are you a current or ex smoker? If so you fall in the same high risk category as obese people..

[Danno]

I finished my vaccination in March. Saw the reports that the response can wane after 6 months. I went to my primary care physician and they refused to give me a booster. Citing FDA guidelines. I am not over 65 and work from home. Not high risk.

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So weird how it varies from place to place. I just got a booster today at CVS, I'm not 65 and I didn't lie on their sign up. Some scheduling websites would only schedule you for the same brand of booster (so you'd have to lie if you want to mix and match) but CVS let you schedule a booster for whatever you wanted (and I even had a brief conversation with the pharmacist there about the mix and match I was doing). Some websites required you to attest to being immunocompromised, but again, CVS did not.

[skiJ]

Breakthrough infection. Got my second Pfizer in June. Pounding headache, stuffed nose. Kids out school for at least 2 weeks. 40 and raining. Puppies tearing through house. So annoying.

( empathy ), teletech -

a friend of mine who had it last December (2020) reported heart rate elevated 50% for three weeks ; chest discomfort for months...

good luck... tj

[Adolf Allerbush]

So weird how it varies from place to place. I just got a booster today at CVS, I'm not 65 and I didn't lie on their sign up. Some scheduling websites would only schedule you for the same brand of booster (so you'd have to lie if you want to mix and match) but CVS let you schedule a booster for whatever you wanted (and I even had a brief conversation with the pharmacist there about the mix and match I was doing). Some websites required you to attest to being immunocompromised, but again, CVS did not.

Yeah, I asked about it when I got mine and I think a lot of it has to do with interpretation of the 6 months after last dose recommendation. CVS is taking that as trumping all other considerations, which seems like the right call. There isn't a shortage of doses.