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

**GoldMember** · 03-23-2021, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by The AD

Is this really the place to relate your masturbatory woes?

It's the beauty of anonymity so, yes, this would be the place to complain...

**GoldMember** · 03-23-2021, 11:00 AM

Originally Posted by jono

Antibodies /= T-cell immunity. Antibodies fade until you need more, then the T-cells get that going. Someone else can describe that better, but it's been discussed ad nauseam: fading antibodies are normal and not a cause for concern about long-term immunity.

Wait, wait, wait.... Why aren't you skiing today? I thought you were going to chew on what's left of yesterday's storm and sunshine today. If I weren't here at work, I sure as hell wouldn't be on TGR. Go get sum!

**Toadman** · 03-23-2021, 11:17 AM

Gunna get me some Pfizer vaccine on Wednesday.

**jono** · 03-23-2021, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by GoldMember

Wait, wait, wait.... Why aren't you skiing today? I thought you were going to chew on what's left of yesterday's storm and sunshine today. If I weren't here at work, I sure as hell wouldn't be on TGR. Go get sum!

On my way just now, better late than never. Stupid work first...

**RootSkier** · 03-23-2021, 11:43 AM

MT mags, Yellowstone County just opened it up to everyone. I think Missoula will be hot on their heels any minute now.

**puma** · 03-23-2021, 01:13 PM

I guess I just need to remain relaxed as we have been working from home for a year, healthy, and not old age...but I sure get anxious\jealous of all the reports of states opening up and all the reports of folks here getting the vax. I am on a few wait lists for no waste. Congrats to those who've secured.

**uglymoney** · 03-23-2021, 01:39 PM

Hang in there or just make a drive and get it done.

Tonight makes 2 weeks for the wife and I since dose 1.

Unitypoint here in Cedar Rapids kept track of their employees after they were vaccinated with either Pfizer or Moderna. The numbers aren't really detailed in the article but two weeks out from shot 1 new cases among vaccinated workers slowed to a trickle and after 4 weeks they mostly stopped.

So I am feeling better but we are definitely trying not to change our covid behavior beyond letting go of some of the anxiety that comes with being around people at work or when using a public restroom.

Article is March 5 so a bit dated. I read it again for myself on my 2wkversary so thought I'd share for others who want to feel overconfident in their antibodies.

https://www.thegazette.com/subject/n...apids-20210301

"Though the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is making its way into the community slowly so far, the effects of the inoculations seem to already be having a local impact on the spread of the virus.
In the two months since front-line health care workers began receiving the vaccine, UnityPoint Health-Cedar Rapids officials say they are seeing a reduction of the number of new cases among their staff.
Health system officials say data they’ve collected shows a distinct difference in infection rates between vaccinated and unvaccinated team members as soon as two weeks after the first doses were administered to health care workers.
By the third and fourth weeks, infections “reached a near zero rate of increase” among vaccinated staff, officials said. Meanwhile, positive COVID-19 cases among unvaccinated staff continued to climb.
“Over time, you see that the farther along we get, very few of the COVID cases are in the vaccinated group,” said Dr. Ignatius Brady, a UnityPoint Health physician who studied the data.
The data studies 4,075 health care workers in Cedar Rapids and Anamosa between Dec. 15 and Feb. 5. In that time, over 3,100 staff received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine either from Pfizer or Moderna."

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**garyfromterrace** · 03-23-2021, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by SoVT Joey

Addiction isn’t a disease. Shitty thinking is the disease. Just like the shitty thinking about this vaccine. It doesn’t make anyone immune. You can still carry the virus. It’s like half wiping your ass. Better off not smearing it around.

Are you an idiot? Because when you post shit like this it makes you look like a fucking idiot. Consider this my PSA for you.

**Adolf Allerbush** · 03-23-2021, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by The AD

Have we successfully eradicated any disease other than smallpox?

thanks. Eradicate is not the right word. How about getting it under "control" without going in for an annual booster? Like what we have now with measles, and yes, I know, the ant-vaxers are fucking that up too.

**simple** · 03-23-2021, 04:18 PM

Just got Pfizer shot in Grand Junction. Wish it came with a Trump 2020 flag to burn

**skaredshtles** · 03-23-2021, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by simple

<snip> Wish it came with a Trump 2020 flag to burn

I think you can get those pretty cheap these days.

**simple** · 03-23-2021, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by skaredshtles

I think you can get those pretty cheap these days.

Nah I want a used one. Tired of seeing them still flying out here

**Brasso** · 03-23-2021, 05:46 PM

https://krispykreme.com/promos/vaccineoffer

Getcha free donuts, one every day.

**rideit** · 03-23-2021, 05:52 PM

Let’s replace the Covid pandemic with the Diabeetus Pandemic!

**adrenalated** · 03-23-2021, 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by rideit

Let’s replace the Covid pandemic with the Diabeetus Pandemic!

America! Fuck yeah!

**ötzi** · 03-23-2021, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by rideit

Let’s replace the Covid pandemic with the Diabeetus Pandemic!

There already is a diabetes epidemic in this country.

Wife got Pfizer #2 yesterday. She's fine today, arm kinda sore. Also she may be a little crankier than normal but honestly it's a matter of degrees and hard to really tell.

**MTT** · 03-23-2021, 06:59 PM

Though I would share. I saw the VA routine for shots today. They schedule in advance and it looks like they have next day slots available. You have to go through the normal covid-19 screening to get in. Go go to a table where a dude with clip boards and paper work greets you. There's no line. A medical person comes out takes the clip board and walks you back. The is no wait. 10 ish minutes later they bring you back out. You have a piece of tape on your shirt with a time stamp. You sit 15 minutes and then you can leave.
There was never a line while I was there. There were always 15 - 20 people sitting around for the 15 minutes wait. I would guess they are doing about 100 per hour 8 till 4
Some must have been getting shots before because they were asking if first or second shot.
Your second shot Goes into the appointment system the same time they booked for the first

**uglymoney** · 03-23-2021, 07:05 PM

So did you partake?

SoVT Joey I hope you keep an eye to the vaccine and mainstream science. I took it and I feel better then I have in a year. Good on you for quiting the smack. To me that is huge. No way I'd dice the onion over your use of weeds or how you want to define clean and sober.

**4matic** · 03-23-2021, 07:28 PM

Talked to a kid on the the college swim team today. He’s CC all-America. The 2nd moderna dose hit him hard too

**highangle** · 03-23-2021, 08:08 PM

Originally Posted by MTT

Though I would share. I saw the VA routine for shots today. They schedule in advance and it looks like they have next day slots available. You have to go through the normal covid-19 screening to get in. Go go to a table where a dude with clip boards and paper work greets you. There's no line. A medical person comes out takes the clip board and walks you back. The is no wait. 10 ish minutes later they bring you back out. You have a piece of tape on your shirt with a time stamp. You sit 15 minutes and then you can leave.
There was never a line while I was there. There were always 15 - 20 people sitting around for the 15 minutes wait. I would guess they are doing about 100 per hour 8 till 4
Some must have been getting shots before because they were asking if first or second shot.
Your second shot Goes into the appointment system the same time they booked for the first

That's exactly how they do it at Seward Community Health Center...Even down to the tape and same appointment times.

**RShea** · 03-23-2021, 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by MTT

Though I would share. I saw the VA routine for shots today. They schedule in advance and it looks like they have next day slots available. You have to go through the normal covid-19 screening to get in. Go go to a table where a dude with clip boards and paper work greets you. There's no line. A medical person comes out takes the clip board and walks you back. The is no wait. 10 ish minutes later they bring you back out. You have a piece of tape on your shirt with a time stamp. You sit 15 minutes and then you can leave.
There was never a line while I was there. There were always 15 - 20 people sitting around for the 15 minutes wait. I would guess they are doing about 100 per hour 8 till 4
Some must have been getting shots before because they were asking if first or second shot.
Your second shot Goes into the appointment system the same time they booked for the first

My Father was at the local VA yesterday for his first round. They had called him a few months ago- Jan asking if he wanted it then, he waited but finally agreed.

**motopsycha** · 03-23-2021, 08:11 PM

Moderna #1 on Monday.

Felt a bit off last night like a cold was setting in. Didn’t sleep well but felt fine this morning. By the end of the work day today I was feeling pretty rotten and it’s kicking my butt tonight. Feverish and really run down. Some GI issues as well.

At least I know it is doing something

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**MTT** · 03-23-2021, 08:16 PM

Originally Posted by uglymoney

So did you partake?

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I am going back tomorrow morning at 9:30 am. I was half surprised they didn't just do it while I was there. But they are booking up pretty fast.

I am 60 and have type 2