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So True, Now the very people who don't want the shots want me to mask up again while blaming conservatives for being the problem. Not going to happen …
I'm not wearing a mask to protect their stupidity, Be they Conservative or Liberal… Stupid is stupid..
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Both sides need to stop politicizing Covid. Period.
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Noll, sorry for the delay in response. I believe the wait is at least 15 minutes at all vaccination locations, no matter the vaccine, and I know that some providers require up to 45 minutes of observed wait time. I didn't see in my post where I mentioned an hour long observed wait, but that's neither here nor there. The observed wait time varies.
It's kind of like Gardasil 9, the HPV vaccine (and, incidentally, the only vaccine ever to hit 100% coverage, meaning it "takes" in everyone). For whatever reason, it can cause dizziness, lightheadedness and syncope. Patients are vaccinated, given apple juice and observed for at least 15 minutes). Anecdotally, in the case of vaccinations of my two older sons--no problems. Hopped off the exam table and strolled out every time. The youngest, though, did have syncope (fainting) with a controlled fall. I believe it was his third dose--like his brothers, he'd tolerated the first two doses fine.
With both their first and second doses of the Pfizer vaccine, they were given Quaker Soft and Chewy granola bars, sliced apple (prepacked) and apple juice. Both were fine, and they pocketed everything but the apple juice.
The message is this: If you have an egg allergy or a history with issues with vaccines, discuss this with your provider--I don't know that the "traditional" vector vaccines, the Janssen product and the Oxford/AstraZeneca product, are produced using chicken eggs, but I'd guess that they are produced in that manner. Otherwise, if you have the option, go for the Pfizer or Moderna mRNA products. And yes, the second dose of Moderna will kick your ass.
This isn't a reaction--it's that the Moderna product is essentially the actual virus, with a lipid coating. Pfizer removed/modified substantial chunks of the RNA of the virus; Moderna, to my understanding, removed/modifed only a very small amount of the virus. So when you receive the second dose, your body, having produced B- and T-cells (as opposed to antibodies, with the vector vaccines) that are specific to the SARS2-nCoV-19 virus, sees the second Moderna dose as the real virus and your immune system goes into full elephant-on-meth on the "virus." Which is a good thing.
However, in some individuals (including myself and perhaps 10 other nurses I work with), because the immune system thinks it is fighting off the real thing, causes your body to slow or stop production of anything "normal" , like red and white blood cells and instead starts producing "killer" T-cells as fast as possible. "Killer" T-cells are specific to the virus, and they are produced in the long bones, same as "normal" blood cells. In my case, since "killer" T-cells are produced over about seven days, almost to the hour, and in those long bones and ribs, not only did my upper arms (humeri), ribs and femurs hurt, literally bursting with "killer" T-cells, but I had very bizarre delayed fatigue. As in, I fell asleep the Friday morning a week after receiving the second vaccine--and didn't wake up for something like 26 hours.
This same thing happened, again in least 10 of my colleagues, and the bizarre sameness for all of us was that when we woke up, our bedding was totally undisturbed, as if we hadn't moved at all while asleep. The immune system essentially decides that nope, don't need higher cognition, we need to kill this fucker, and thus the sleep and the ensuing 24-48 hours of feeling like I was walking in Jello.
Again, this is a good thing, but yah, be prepared.
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The lack of public trust across the board is appalling and covid is being used to erode personal choice and freedoms across the board.
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Latest news from the CDC is that 80 % of the new cases of Covid are now the Delta varient which apparently came out of India .
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Latest news from the CDC is that 80 % of the new cases of Covid are now the Delta varient which apparently came out of India . They are saying that the infection Rate is up 63% since July .
I have a friend who is a nurse , her brother and three co-worker's who were vaccinated have reinfected with the Delta varient . She says that where she works 3 of the ER staff that were vaccinated have now come down with the Delta varient .
Looks like my hesitancy to stop wearing a mask when I go into stores May have not been so stupid .
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No.
I don't see myself from this point forward not wearing a face mask or gloves.
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We are impatiently waiting to be given the third shot seeing as it's necessary but first come the ones that truly need it.
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Get vaccinated. Plain and simple.
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Stop making it about politics. Get vaccinated.
I am against mandatory vaccination on general principle. My body. My choice. I also don’t much care to be taking an experimental drug that failed the animal trials. Having said all that, I took the J&J vaccine because it is a traditional vaccine, like the flu shot. My wife chose the Pfizer, got Covid anyway, took Ivermectin and had Long Covid for six months.
Yep - got both Pfizer shots. Was not in risk category. After my first shot, I had a little fever and mostly muscular pain for 2 days, but all good. Did a full medical test after both shots, everything normal, no clotting, nor issues found. I still wear a mask even if here we've gone maskless.
It makes travel easier and I do travel a lot.
I am all the way vaxxed up.
