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Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Tue Mar 02, 2021 5:34 pm Vaccinated! Second dose, it turns out, will be four weeks later. Or at least that's the current understanding. I'll get an e-mail in about a week that will allow me to schedule the second dose.

Some states allow you to register for the second when you schedule the first. Some states schedule the second one for you when you get the first shot. But that would be too logical.
And, yes, the reaction to the second one is often (but not much) worse.
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metsmarathon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 1:39 pm i am apparently doing a super-shit job of getting vaccination appintments. my 82-year old mom is still without her first. on her behalf, i'm signed up for all the relevant appointment alert systems that appear to apply, but don't get any notifications.

A friend of mine in Morris Plains just posted "Who needs vaccines?" on facebook. She might have a way in. I just texted her.

i was able this past weekend to get her an appointment at rite aid, using their website. she gets her first poke tomorrow.

today i got a reminder from nj's vaccine system that i'm still on the list. which, well, isn't nearly helpful enough.

Things seem to be getting a little easier. We'd been hitting refresh for a friend's 80+year-old mother and she finally got one this week.

NJ is opening vaccines to teachers on 3/15.

Dolly Parton is a national treasure.

So if Biden pulls this off, we'll have saved summer and all kids will be back in school come September. That will be enormous. There'll still be deaths from COVID, but there won't be any excuses- those who don't get vaccinated will only have themselves to blame.

Except that a lot of people who aren't white, middle-class, college-educated professionals don't have access to basic healthcare much less vaccines. But they probably live in "red states," so fuck them, right?

Willets Point wrote: ↑Tue Mar 02, 2021 8:21 pm Dolly Parton is a national treasure.

No, she's a scary plastic cyborg. But, you know, tomato, to-mah-to I guess.

He finally got stabbed back.


O.J. Simpson
@TheRealOJ32

Got my 2nd shot. Go get yours.

My mom and stepdad got dose #2 today.

They're vaccinating the apes at the San Diego Zoo.

I know that there aren't many apes at the Zoo, and that it's important to protect the apes, but this sends a terrible message while there are still humans who are desperately trying to get vaccinated. Why don't they just vaccinate the humans who come into close contact with the apes? There can't be that many of them. And if the apes decide to go to a supermarket or a restaurant, make sure that they wear masks.

My first shot is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, months ahead of what I had presumed to be realistic. I don't expect to stand behind any apes as I wait my turn.

I had my first shot on Saturday. NYU texted me saying "we got 'em if you want one." Took me in right away. My arm hurts but I'll get over it.

Ohio lowers its age cutoff to 50 on Thursday and just out of the blue, I figured I'd call my doctor's office and see if maybe I'd be able to get an appointment for June or something that I could use as a safety net in case constantly refreshing CVS's appointment website didn't work out.

Turns out they had an opening Friday at 11:20.

Way to go!

My daughters a teacher and her school district arranged for the entire staff to get their shots...awesome!

TransMonk wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 5:36 pm My mom and stepdad got dose #2 today.

How did they make out?
Mom got her second on Thursday and had some intense discomfort Friday but it was short lived

Saw Czar Cuomo decreed (I thought his powers had been stripped) that everyone 60+
now vaccine eligible statewide.

whippoorwill wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 4:15 pmHow did they make out?
Mom got her second on Thursday and had some intense discomfort Friday but it was short lived

Neither had any side effects other than mild fatigue for about 24 hours. They were expecting worse and were pleasantly surprised.

Great!

I've been Pfizered! Vax went smoothly, lots of folks showed up, scheduled to flow evenly, have my second shot scheduled for 3/30. I had voted for September 2021 in the poll and considered that conservative. Turns out when you get a genuine leader and people who understand what they're doing and how logistics work, what would usually be just SOP becomes a miracle. So far, no side effects but it's been only a few hours.

We have a friend who's a lawyer for pharmacies. He's in touch with pharmacies who may have extra doses at the end of a day, and we have to be ready to drop everything and drive to a pharmacy somewhere in NJ on a moment's notice if they have extra vaccine after all appointments have been satisfied. It's like flying standby with your health.

And people who don't have a friend who's a lawyer for pharmacies and don't get vaccinated and die of COVID don't have any excuses - "those who don't get vaccinated will only have themselves to blame."

Well, that's certainly not true yet, but maybe it will be in a few months, if the current projections turn out to be accurate.

Just quoting LS upthread when he made his racist/classist proclamation that people don't get the vaccine deserve to die despite the fact that the distribution of the vaccine is extremely inequitable. Now he's bragging about using his privileged connections to jump the line on a vaccination that poor people of color and rural people aren't going to get a chance for months, if ever. But it's there fault for not being a white, college-educated, professional, suburban dude, right?

He did say "come September" and "if Biden pulls this off". It doesn't look like he was talking about the present.