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Got my first shot (Pfizer) this morning at a mass vaccination clinic in Sacramento. They are incredibly good at it. At each step I had someone who escorted me to the next spot I needed to be in. Took maybe 5-10 minutes from when I walked in to when I had a shot in my arm. While I was waiting the 15 minutes afterwards, someone came around and scheduled my second appointment. By my very rough math, they're doing 2-3k vaccinations per day from there. If you're within driving distance of Sac, check out the UC Davis clinic at Scottish Rite. I'm at T+5 hours now, just have mild arm pain and a ~1 degree elevated temperature. I can't taste my WiFi yet but I'm hoping for strawberry.  blood chat: I'd love to be able to donate blood, but I'm permanently barred due to living in Europe in the 80s and potentially having an undetectable 100% fatal monster (vCJD) lurking in my blood.
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Azathoth Prime posted:blood chat: I'd love to be able to donate blood, but I'm permanently barred due to living in Europe in the 80s and potentially having an undetectable 100% fatal monster (vCJD) lurking in my blood. Van Claude Jean Damme?
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Alan Smithee posted:Van Claude Jean Damme? Nothing that cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_Creutzfeldt%E2%80%93Jakob_disease I met someone whose wife died from the non-v version. Prion diseases are really nasty.
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In my town they're supposedly having about 50% of all appointments nullified because people don't show up (they're doing 65+), would it be possible to get in contact with the people doing the vaccinations to get an early shot somehow (I'm 32) or would it be a fools errand to try and get it early somehow? (I feel like it's cheating and immoral since there are people more 'worthy' since I'm unemployed and has been in self-isolation since like january last year, meaning I stay at home and only go to the store near closing to absolutely minimize exposure). I'm swedish, if that matters.
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Apr 15, 2021 23:48
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Greggster posted:In my town they're supposedly having about 50% of all appointments nullified because people don't show up (they're doing 65+), would it be possible to get in contact with the people doing the vaccinations to get an early shot somehow (I'm 32) or would it be a fools errand to try and get it early somehow? The mRNA vaccines have a finite shelf life, so eventually they're going to get thrown out. It's not immoral to ask if there are leftovers available. Can't hurt to try. Yes, at-risk groups should be prioritized, but anyone who gets immunized helps everyone.
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Azathoth Prime posted:Nothing that cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_Creutzfeldt%E2%80%93Jakob_disease Prions, you say?? https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1382715585100800006 Greggster posted:In my town they're supposedly having about 50% of all appointments nullified because people don't show up (they're doing 65+), would it be possible to get in contact with the people doing the vaccinations to get an early shot somehow (I'm 32) or would it be a fools errand to try and get it early somehow? Dude, go for it. Especially if other folks aren't showing up, the whole idea is to move as many vaccine shots as fast as possible, by the time someone else will want the one you took they'll have a bunch more.
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Greggster posted:In my town they're supposedly having about 50% of all appointments nullified because people don't show up (they're doing 65+), would it be possible to get in contact with the people doing the vaccinations to get an early shot somehow (I'm 32) or would it be a fools errand to try and get it early somehow? Personally I think Sweden has been immoral for the whole way it kept everything open but uh yeah point is you should get it anyway you can I have no idea how they run things there let alone other states in America.
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 Florida Goons (Pinellas County for certain; click Find a Location to see if your county is offering) can use this link to get Pfizer vaccine appointments Got my first Pfizer shot today where Everett College used to be on East Bay (near the Racetrac) and am surprised how quick it was. After a quick temp check outside all you need is your appointment e-mail on your phone and your Florida Driver License to get in. No need to sit down at first, they do it military-style with you standing up and them then sending you to an observation room with spaced out chairs and an active proctor where they time out for you the wait for fifteen minutes. They even give you a sticker! They stress in the observation room the importance of rotating your arms to increase blood flow and my arms only are starting to get sore now about six hours from injection when I came back home to play video games. It is fantastic having someplace in Florida where people are genuinely good at their jobs.
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ShadowHawk posted:If you've had a gay dry spell for 3 months you're eligible now - this was lowered from a year; the timing was similarly relaxed for other deferments like tattoos. Ate beef in Europe in the 80s, so they still won't take my dirty gay celibate blood. I get my second dose next week, then 2 weeks later I can go see my family again. Thank you science!
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MarcusSA posted:Honestly this vaccine rollout is the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen. There should be one site you log into not 15 different ones to check if they have appointments. I thought finding a first shot was rough, but the second is an even bigger pain in the rear end. So many places refuse to schedule just second shots, but there are a few places (including where we got ours) that only does first shots and not second, it tells us to find our own second shot.
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Chainclaw posted:I thought finding a first shot was rough, but the second is an even bigger pain in the rear end. So many places refuse to schedule just second shots, but there are a few places (including where we got ours) that only does first shots and not second, it tells us to find our own second shot. I got lucky that my first dose is through the county so they gave us our second dose appointment. No changing it though so whatever they give you you take.
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I'm in Washington State and just became eligible. Do I just keep trawling vaccinefinder.com for chud areas? Nowhere in my relatively blue area has it. Thanks, gang! You're saving lives
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Drunk Nerds posted:I'm in Washington State and just became eligible. Do I just keep trawling vaccinefinder.com for chud areas? Nowhere in my relatively blue area has it. I dunno, but my friend in Bremerton (lol) got an appointment at Saar's Super Saver. I would check all grocery store chains for a COVID vaccine portal. That's how I got mine in MN and my aforementioned friend in WA state.
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Chainclaw posted:I thought finding a first shot was rough, but the second is an even bigger pain in the rear end. So many places refuse to schedule just second shots, but there are a few places (including where we got ours) that only does first shots and not second, it tells us to find our own second shot. Well that certainly makes.... sense (???)
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Already got one Moderna dose, CVS here in California at least schedules you for both doses so no need to hunt down a second one, makes a lot more sense. I still wouldn't hesitate about getting a J&J, don't give anti-vaxxers ammunition
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Drunk Nerds posted:I'm in Washington State and just became eligible. Do I just keep trawling vaccinefinder.com for chud areas? Nowhere in my relatively blue area has it. If you check a local vax subreddit or FB group they might have specific information of the best time to hit up the websites. Sometimes you need to hit them right on 5am or whenever they open up new slots but it seems like every city and every chain store runs things differently and add new slots at different intervals and at different times of day so there's no overall rule for the best way of going about it
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I live in London, Ontario, a town very deep in out of towners due to the university. Despite the fact that 90% of courses went to fully online classes they did not hesitate to allow students to come back to town, residence or off campus regardless(granted with some restrictions, spoiler: they didn't work). On top of all that, university kids will be university kids and they want to socialize all the time. This has lead to 8 different outbreaks within residences over the last month and the area code which houses the university and most of the student rental properties shat out a covid test positivity rate of nearly 30% last week.
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Drunk Nerds posted:I'm in Washington State and just became eligible. Do I just keep trawling vaccinefinder.com for chud areas? Nowhere in my relatively blue area has it. These helped me: http://covidwa.com/ https://vaccinelocator.doh.wa.gov/ https://twitter.com/covidwashington What part of Washington?
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infraboy posted:Already got one Moderna dose, CVS here in California at least schedules you for both doses so no need to hunt down a second one, makes a lot more sense.
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Daughter's first Pfizer jab has now been scheduled for the end of this month. Because of the required spacing, she won't be able to get her flu jab until well into May. If she'd known her employer was going to schedule the covid jabs this late, she could have had her flu shot weeks ago. Australia really needs to start doing better.
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Drunk Nerds posted:I'm in Washington State and just became eligible. Do I just keep trawling vaccinefinder.com for chud areas? Nowhere in my relatively blue area has it. Update: Yelm got the hookup 
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We've got a great system where I live. I registered in January and haven't heard poo poo since then. I can check a website to see the canton vaccinated 7000 people yesterday and that there are 10 more groups to open up before I'm eligible. No energy wasted on making a timetable or even estimates. That's Swiss efficiency for you. More efficiency comes on Monday! Rather than wait for a meaningful proportion of the population to be vaccinated or the reproductive number to be under 1 or the number of new cases per day to be below where it was at the start of the second wave, we're just opening almost everything up on Monday so we can go Back To Normal with no more of this stupid waiting around for numbers and science and poo poo.
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greazeball posted:We've got a great system where I live. I registered in January and haven't heard poo poo since then. I can check a website to see the canton vaccinated 7000 people yesterday and that there are 10 more groups to open up before I'm eligible. No energy wasted on making a timetable or even estimates. That's Swiss efficiency for you. Honestly I have mixed feelings about the openings; The outside dining I think will work, although I don't know how protected like the actual employees are. Gyms opening up seems pretty unnecessary and this is coming from someone who is strongly craving some deadlifts. Also the fact that they are allowing singing in enclosed spaces is borderline criminal, imho, but god forbid you get in the way of the choirs in this loving country. Cinemas is an interesting conversation for me because like immediate, gut instinct is that it's a bad idea. But then the more I think about it, you can spread out, they're crazy ventilated and generally speaking people shut up in theaters, after the intro. So no comedies, I guess. And I seem to remember reading a headline that said that there were actually not really a source of transmission , but I am definitely willing to be told that I'm wrong on this front. But yeah this vaccine rollout is pretty abysmal, especially from the standpoint of information clarity. The likelihood that I will get the JJ when I travel to the states in June is getting higher by the day. This loving cold snap isn't helping anything, I don't think. Did you get your 5 tests per person? The ones that Roche said are only 30% accurate for asymptomatic carriers? Did you get those?
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Yeah I got my tests but mostly because my wife is really keen on them. She and I have really isolated ourselves well I think during this whole time but she still wants to be suuper sure she's clear before she visits her mother. She has suffered from some pretty strong anxiety in the past so I haven't told her my opinion of the test but I agree that they don't seem all that useful. So far she hasn't gotten a false positive yet, but she's only done two. The completely lovely thing about the opening for cinemas and restaurants is that the businesses will still be absolutely hammered by the reduced capacity--especially restaurants and cinemas. All of their finances have been calculated based on a certain capacity and they cannot meet their obligations running at 50% or less. The cost of turning the lights on and paying enough staff to just open the doors is already going to make it unfeasible, plus all of the sanitatation theatre that has to go on so everyone can avoid liability for any infections. It's going to be a lovely several weeks until another lockdown is the only choice just in time for summer. Coinicidentally, we're voting on COVID powers in June so I think the SP might have just decided this is their last chance to let the SVP and the other fuckheads really wreck poo poo so the whole situation is extra grim just when it's time to go to the polls.
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Drunk Nerds posted:Update: Yelm got the hookup My Pfizer doses were scheduled at the rear end end of Puyallup and I'm coming from Seattle so yeehaw that's a trip and a half during rush hour
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Lolie posted:Australia really needs to start doing better. Like, sure, but... I'm really curious as to what people in this thread living in America and Europe think when they see Australians expressing this opinion.
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freebooter posted:Like, sure, but... I'm really curious as to what people in this thread living in America and Europe think when they see Australians expressing this opinion. basically  I'm glad you've done so well in the prevention part and I do sympathise with the frustrations about the vaccines, but man I wish I was making your complaints instead of wondering if I'm going to be one of the deliberate casualties in the third wave since I'll be taking the train to go teach at a college where there were regularly classes quarantined from one day to the next because infected students were spreading it to their colleagues back when new case numbers were a third of where they are now.
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freebooter posted:Like, sure, but... I'm really curious as to what people in this thread living in America and Europe think when they see Australians expressing this opinion. As a Canadian who can't get a vax in a province with a government who's making GBS threads the bed and our cases # and ICUs are overflowing ... I just lol.
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greazeball posted:basically Don't worry, we're planning on starting up infection outbreaks again here in Australia at some point, perhaps later this year. Our PM has said that we're going to have to open up international travel at some point for vaccinated people but we'll probably durop the mandatory 14 day hotel quarantine and just let people quarantine at home. He also said that this will definitely lead to at least 1000 community infections every week but he doesn't want people to get upset about that or the state governments to close borders, we're just going to have to learn to live with it quote:The Prime Minister has flagged allowing Australians to travel overseas and return home, without going into hotel quarantine, if they are vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Don't worry, we're planning on starting up infection outbreaks again here in Australia at some point, perhaps later this year. Our PM has said that we're going to have to open up international travel at some point for vaccinated people but we'll probably durop the mandatory 14 day hotel quarantine and just let people quarantine at home. He also said that this will definitely lead to at least 1000 community infections every week but he doesn't want people to get upset about that or the state governments to close borders, we're just going to have to learn to live with it  but y'all were doing so well. honestly when it comes to viewing y'all from the us, it's just confusing.
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24 hours past my 2nd Pfizer and I don't care at all about the arm pain but boy waking up at 4 am shivering and aching everywhere and only being able to warm up with a sweatshirt, a beanie, and an entire pile of blankets sucked. Pretty good headache today too.
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Saalkin posted:As a Canadian who can't get a vax in a province with a government who's making GBS threads the bed and our cases # and ICUs are overflowing Lol same, although one friend in my age group just got their first because they work with special needs kids.
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rifles posted:24 hours past my 2nd Pfizer and I don't care at all about the arm pain but boy waking up at 4 am shivering and aching everywhere and only being able to warm up with a sweatshirt, a beanie, and an entire pile of blankets sucked. Pretty good headache today too. Yeah I still have PTSD from this happening last sunday
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Derpies posted:Yeah I still have PTSD from this happening last sunday From having a fever. ??
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Derpies posted:Yeah I still have PTSD from this happening last sunday From the isolation and being under constant pressure for appeasing or covering from something who you cannot interact with that is actually really probable. If this is something that you feel problematic, you should definitely talk with an expert.
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bollig posted:But yeah this vaccine rollout is pretty abysmal, especially from the standpoint of information clarity. The likelihood that I will get the JJ when I travel to the states in June is getting higher by the day. This loving cold snap isn't helping anything, I don't think. Did you get your 5 tests per person? The ones that Roche said are only 30% accurate for asymptomatic carriers? Did you get those? Well you should definitely be able to get a shot in June in the states, although check the rules first because they did ask for a license at the place I went. Still, shouldn't be an issue at all so at least you have a minimum target
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Play posted:Well you should definitely be able to get a shot in June in the states, although check the rules first because they did ask for a license at the place I went. Still, shouldn't be an issue at all so at least you have a minimum target I still have my driver's license from the state I'm visiting
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