I had J&J for my first shot, and a Moderna booster for my second this weekend. I actually had less severe side effects. Pain at the injection site, and tiredness the first day, but no body aches this time. Oh, and I got a flu shot in the other arm at the same time.
I had roughly the same experience (including J&J as first shot). Mostly some light fatigue yesterday after the booster on Saturday. Only got some mild body aches later in the day. Today, I'm largely fine.I had J&J for my first shot, and a Moderna booster for my second this weekend. I actually had less severe side effects. Pain at the injection site, and tiredness the first day, but no body aches this time. Oh, and I got a flu shot in the other arm at the same time.
I love how your argument always falls back to "the court will rule the way I want them to because they are corrupt and activist, and I'm fine with that."Is there really a difference between political or constitutional decision when ultimately this days it's one in the same. SCOTUS will rule on ideological belief same as they did in many of the cases. If conservative justice of the court feel this is not something they agree on , that is how they will make a ruling.
I love how your argument always falls back to "the court will rule the way I want them to because they are corrupt and activist, and I'm fine with that."
We need serious court reform.
This is an underappreciated aspect of US society - people want all these big transformative changes to happen but filibuster aside they don't seem to appreciate the extent to which right wing judges will just declare any major initiatives unconstitutional.You really, really do.
It's a clearly political body, making undemocratic political decisions, that everyone pretends is something other than what it is. If you wanted some unaccountable establishment rich people making those decisions you should have just stuck with an absolute monarchy. Maybe you should go back to that? I'm sure we've got some spare George III descendants lying around we could send you.
Oh, wait, you've already got some. Maybe the Dems should appoint Harry and Merkle to the Supreme court and pack it with Windsors, just to close the circle?
It would be nice if it was just themselves.Is anyone here REALLY going to lose any sleep if MAGAts want to off themselves.? If nothing else, the mandate is very altruistic, but the bottom line is you can't save the stupid.
I say leave the whole thing to Charlie, he'll deal with it.
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Still, you're getting a one to three dealIt would be nice if it was just themselves.
Honestly at this point we have done everything that could be reasonably expected. We showed them it was safe, we made them free, we offered them money, we offered them free beers, et, etc.This is the definition of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Insurrection by other means: Republicans are ready to die of COVID to spite Biden, Democrats | Salon.com
But the truth is much darker than that. As one person who replied to Leonhardt on Twitter noted, it's less about irrational fears of the shot and more that it "became a badge of honor to remain unvaccinated" and was even seen, among many Republicans, as "[t]raitorous to cave" and get the jab. Yes, there are some morons who really believe that the disease is a hoax or that vaccines contain sinister ingredients. But it's unlikely that most conservatives are that dense. After all, they tend to live in communities where hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients and Facebook memorials to the dead are popping up on a daily basis. Millions of them can see the toll that vaccine resistance is taking on their communities, but they're digging their heels in anyway.
The irony in all this for me, is that my conservative parents used to rail about non-Christian, non-democratic (shithole) countries and that they valued life so little.Honestly at this point we have done everything that could be reasonably expected. We showed them it was safe, we made them free, we offered them money, we offered them free beers, et, etc.
At this point my feelings are:
This is the definition of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Insurrection by other means: Republicans are ready to die of COVID to spite Biden, Democrats | Salon.com
But the truth is much darker than that. As one person who replied to Leonhardt on Twitter noted, it's less about irrational fears of the shot and more that it "became a badge of honor to remain unvaccinated" and was even seen, among many Republicans, as "[t]raitorous to cave" and get the jab. Yes, there are some morons who really believe that the disease is a hoax or that vaccines contain sinister ingredients. But it's unlikely that most conservatives are that dense. After all, they tend to live in communities where hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients and Facebook memorials to the dead are popping up on a daily basis. Millions of them can see the toll that vaccine resistance is taking on their communities, but they're digging their heels in anyway.
My last physical, about a month ago, I was thinking I would be due for my booster in December. No, you are getting your booster now. I'm like, OK.My daughter (in the 5-12 age range) had her wellness checkup yesterday, and the pediatrician already had the Pfizer shot ready to go, so she got it along with her flu vax.
Her doctor is part of a large city-wide medical group here in Austin, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, but I hadn't expected them to have it so quickly.
She was super excited to get the vaccine (if not so much for the actual shot) so we can get back to more activities we've avoided.
I wonder how morons are gonna engineer themselves into rejecting this medicine and continue shoving horse meds up their asses
Pfizer’s Novel COVID-19 Oral Antiviral Treatment Candidate Reduced Risk of Hospitalization or Death by 89% in Interim Analysis of Phase 2/3 EPIC-HR Study
PAXLOVID™ (PF-07321332; ritonavir) was found to reduce the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% compared to placebo in non-hospitalized high-risk adults with COVID-19 In the overall study population through Day 28, no deaths were reported in patients who received PAXLOVID™ as compared to 10...investors.pfizer.com
Seriously though… could be game over for the virus…
Same. Booster (3rd pfizer) on friday...tired and had a headache on Saturday but can't tell if that was just life.
Felt fine yesterday. Arm isn't sore like saturday.
so you want to cull the herd?I'm wondering when were going to past the "booster" talk and start talking about what everyone has already been alluding to...yearly shots. It's November....healthcare workers started getting their first shots 11 months ago....the general consensus is that Covid will be around indefinitely like the flu, flu shots are yearly, data is constantly reporting to a fall off in vaccine efficacy ...so?
Seriously, when I got my 1st shot in Jan, I FULLY expected it was going to be a yearly occurrence. And I mean that. I FULLY assumed that I would be getting a COVID jab every year for the foreseeable future. But there doesn't seem to be any talk about this, at least not in any definitive way that I can see. There has been a ton of talk on both the fact the COVID will, most likely, be around for a very long time to forever, combined with a ton of talk about the need to renew the vaccine. What I'm not seeing is any talk of normalizing the vaccine as a yearly routine.
Yes, COVID keeps changing. Yes, it's a completely new virus. Yes, the long term efficacy of the vaccines aren't fully known with an evolving virus.
Maybe it's all the politics and anti-vax BS that's been occupying everyone, but I want some sense of normalcy DAMMIT!! For me, that means talk about an annual jab. Maybe that's too normal while we're dealing with constant surges and with huge chunks of people that aren't vaccinated. But to me, talking about yearly shots as being a normal occurrence is like saying "OK COVID is here to stay but if we can get everyone vaccinated we can get to a point that we can treat it like the flu."
so you want to cull the herd?
Then we will be doomed. Going by current flu shot participation in the US.Ummm just the opposite. I'm talking about yearly shots. Shots that EVERYONE will get, like the flu shot. Boosters are fine for people that need boosters, like the immunocompromised. All the talk about boosters first for certain people and then for everyone is just confusing and playing into the anti-vaxxer rhetoric. Maybe just say it's a semi-annual instead of a yearly vaccination? I know it's too early still to tell but whatever the routine will be, I'm fine with that, I just want to start moving towards the point of it being routine.