Random thoughts/comments

Lawyer with surprise cat filter on zoom.

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/TDNP-SWgn2w

^ OMG! How embarrassing.

I put in my preorder for Starlink yesterday, and then this morning, I saw the satellite train in sky. I'm so excited. I hope it's sooner than later.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/09/spacexs-...s-ipo.html
https://findstarlink.com/

I've been jabbed (yesterday). No problem. The location was the largest covered space I've ever seen - like football fields of it. We were all (hundreds of us) queued up at a 2 metre distance from each other while waiting to be jabbed. Beyond the jabbing stations was a recuperation zone where people were sitting waiting to be transported up to the mothership. I was tempted to do a little bit of Irish dancing while waiting to be jabbed but feared this might be viewed as more of an affliction than a way to pass time. Syne's suggestion of a punch in the arm to alert the immune system came to mind as the jabbing lady kind of wiggled the needle about in my arm. She might just have not liked me but we'd only had 30 seconds together and it usually takes a bit longer than that.

(Feb 22, 2021 04:54 PM)confused2 Wrote: I've been jabbed (yesterday). No problem. The location was the largest covered space I've ever seen - like football fields of it. We were all (hundreds of us) queued up at a 2 metre distance from each other while waiting to be jabbed. Beyond the jabbing stations was a recuperation zone where people were sitting waiting to be transported up to the mothership. I was tempted to do a little bit of Irish dancing while waiting to be jabbed but feared this might be viewed as more of an affliction than a way to pass time. Syne's suggestion of a punch in the arm to alert the immune system came to mind as the jabbing lady kind of wiggled the needle about in my arm. She might just have not liked me but we'd only had 30 seconds together and it usually takes a bit longer than that.

Got the second shot of Pfizer today. Sent me to a different "let's wait 15 minutes to see if you start croaking from an allergic reaction" area than the first-timers. Will find out if round two really generates any side effects that makes it tempting to take quasi-forbidden acetaminophen or something.

Just signed up for my first shot from my HMO this Friday. Vaccine isn't available at the hospital or the local clinic nearest to me and I have to travel to a hospital a distance from my home up in South San Francisco. But I can live with that, and it's free. (My brother got his first shot at a mass immunization facility set up in the San Francisco Airport parking lot, not far from where they want to jab me.) Dunno which vaccine they will give me, we don't get to choose.

Is it still only seniors? I wonder when we’ll get ours?

(Feb 23, 2021 03:58 AM)Secular Sanity Wrote: Is it still only seniors? I wonder when we’ll get ours?

If you've got a CDIB card, you might be able to cheat like I did by going to an Indian Clinic (if that tribe has already started phases below age 65). Bizarre that I get ushered into being the vanguard and volunteer(?) guinea pig, when I've never even had a flu shot before in my life, and the rest of the brood visits medical facilities as a patient several times more often than I do. "Go, you've got the opportunity; be the first. Show us it's really safe..."

I'm aching severely all over and shivered like crazy even in a warm room. Definitely going to alert anyone who might have a strong immune system that they better be prepared for misery with the 2nd shot (with Pfizer, anyway). I'm not planning on taking another vaccine any time soon, no matter what new strains cross the horizon.

(Feb 23, 2021 05:39 PM)C C Wrote: I'm aching severely all over and shivered like crazy even in a warm room. Definitely going to alert anyone who might have a strong immune system that they better be prepared for misery with the 2nd shot (with Pfizer, anyway). I'm not planning on taking another vaccine any time soon, no matter what new strains cross the horizon.

Thanks for the heads up. I hope you feel better soon.

(Feb 24, 2021 02:41 AM)Secular Sanity Wrote:

(Feb 23, 2021 05:39 PM)C C Wrote: I'm aching severely all over and shivered like crazy even in a warm room. Definitely going to alert anyone who might have a strong immune system that they better be prepared for misery with the 2nd shot (with Pfizer, anyway). I'm not planning on taking another vaccine any time soon, no matter what new strains cross the horizon.

Thanks for the heads up. I hope you feel better soon.

I finally took acetaminophen 25 hours after receiving the vaccine -- enough was enough. Extreme body pain came back six hours later when it wore off, though -- even the chills. Seems to have at last started abating on its own.

Talked to some elders (70 & 88 years) who were injected with Moderna. The worst they experienced were sore shoulders after the second shot. But their immune systems are degraded, so that doesn't necessarily mean that it's milder in comparison to Pfizer. I doubt there's much difference between the two in terms of side effects.

Second COVID Shot Packs the Big Punch: "Zubin Damania, MD, a.k.a. ZDoggMD, said the second dose of his Moderna vaccine knocked him out: 'I couldn't sleep, I had a fever, rigors, body aches, a headache -- full-on man-flu,' he joked on a recent episode of his show."

Tempting to say it's worse than the flu, but may be only because I could take something regularly to relieve the symptoms if it was a virus.