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bearz2 17-Mar-21, 02:21	Corona virus jab What is your opinion about getting the jab. I'm very much in two minds.
checkcharlie 17-Mar-21, 04:47	Had the jab. Best chance of getting back to something like normality.
bumblingbishop 17-Mar-21, 07:03	Deleted by bumblingbishop on 08-Apr-21, 17:24.
brigadecommander 17-Mar-21, 19:15	I got the Virus more then 2-months ago. My Brother (67) also. I had a slight fever but recovered quickly. My Brother almost died. But just managed to make it. Since then my Brother has got his two jabs and i await my turn in my age group. For me it's civic duty.
royal_knight1 17-Mar-21, 20:49	I have friends in the UK have had the jab and were laid up in bed for a couple of days,i want the jab but I would like to know what the side effects might be. I am in western Australia and we don't have any cases thanks to our premier who closed our borders but things may change when everybody starts moving from country more freely which could be our downfall.
bearz2 18-Mar-21, 00:08	Your lucky with your premier...Victoria isn't as lucky ours stuffs up all the time.
saguaro 18-Mar-21, 12:18	My wife & I have both completed our 2 shots. She had Moderna & had a sore arm for 3 days. I had Pfizer and had no pain at all. We're near Chicago.
bumblingbishop 21-Mar-21, 10:52	Deleted by bumblingbishop on 08-Apr-21, 17:23.
mo-oneandmore 21-Mar-21, 11:39	I've been stuck twice Both hurt at the location for a few days and I was also tired and a bit stupid feeling for at-least a week after the second shot, but I'm rolling hot again now --- still feel stupid though.  I say go for it when you're time comes up, even if you're scared shitlless every time you walk into a doctors office. ATHENA: Mine was Moderna too, hon --- that's almost as spooky as both of of us having a first pet named Toby, huh? It's an inside story between Brigadecommander and me, y'all (see the correct THINK Club forum and join the club if ya want to)
joveyboy1 30-Mar-21, 22:54	Both my parents have gotten their first dose. My dad gets his second in a few days, my mom should get hers by the end of April. I should be eligible for my first come April 15. We'll see if there's enough supply by then...and hopefully a earthquake doesn't derail everything right before I get it. I know I'm in SoCal and all, but I keep having the thought that will happen. Hopefully it's just a thought and not reality...so if there's an earthquake here before I get my first dose, you can blame me lol
urbanascott 05-Apr-21, 23:34	I strongly recommend that everyone get vaccinated as soon as they are eligible. I see it as the only way of ever returning to some sense of normalcy, and I think that proof of vaccination is going to be required to do many things: get on an airplane, visit other countries, be employed, step on a cruise ship, etc... Proof of vaccination is already required to attend events at Madison Square Gardens, and many sports venues and states are planning on implementing the same requirement. As a consumer, I am much more likely to stay at a hotel, or dine at a restaurant, or fly on airline, if I know that all of their employees have been fully vaccinated and that they require all of their customers to be fully vaccinated. I do understand this create separate classes of people—those who have been vaccinated and those who have not been vaccinated, and I normally am against such discrimination, but when it comes to my medical safety I will target doing business at places who ensure all of their customers and employees have been vaccinated and I will avoid those businesses who don’t provide such assurances. I do have to admit that I am strongly committed to the vaccination efforts. My wife and I volunteer at our county’s main vaccination sites for three 12 hour shifts per week. We were vaccinating ~1100 per shift about two months ago and now we are averaging ~1600 people per shift. We have EMTs and ambulances on site, but we have yet to have a single person have a negatively reaction immediately after getting their shot. Very few people have any reaction after the first shot other than a mildly sore arm for a couple of days. After the second shot some people have mild side effects over the next 24 hours. A few people might run a mild fever and feel a bit wiped out for 24 hours, but I think avoiding the virus far outweighs such short-term side effects. The most common comment from people right after getting jabbed is claiming they never received their shot because they felt no pain. In the first clinic shift I volunteered at I had a 96 year old women who only spoke Italian (her grandson translated) who was quite adamant that she did not receive her injection and I had to take her back to the person who gave her the shot who removed the band aid and allowed her grandson to see the small needle prick mark at her injection site. All of my experience has been with the Moderna vaccine. Our clinic has only received the Moderna vaccine to date and that has helped to simplify things since we have to provide the same vaccine four weeks later for their second shot. My understanding is that the Phizer experience is almost identical. I probably would get the Johnson and Johnson vaccine if that was the only option available to me when going to a vaccination clinic. However, I am not very confident in the Astra Zeneca vaccine that has been used is other countries and will likely be approved in the US soon. A few countries had to stop using that vaccine because of some potentially dangerous side effects and because it is not very effective against some of the variant strains. For those that do get vaccinated I suggest taking great care of your vaccination cards. Both Staples and Office Depot are laminating vaccine cards for free. In the vaccination clinics run by our county and state, all of the vaccine histories are stored in a database and within a few minutes of receiving your second shot you receive an email with a link to your vaccination history. The problem is, every state is doing their own thing when it comes to digitally documenting vaccination records and it doubtful that all of these databases will be able to talk to each other and create a centralized database that airlines, border control, employers and cruise ship companies could readily access. And, Biden is not allowing the federal government to create a national vaccine passport; he wants it to come from corporate America.
marcusleus 13-Apr-21, 10:58	My wife and I both have had both Moderna jabs. Both of us are at 2.5 weeks on our second. Our siblings have all had Covid. We have not. We made a very strong effort to take precautions back in January of last year. We were fortunate enough to learn about the virus before it made the news. How effective the Moderna jab will be against the variants is unknown. We are still using N95 mask and latex gloves. I still work but my wife is retired. We have turned into very recluse people.
joveyboy1 13-Apr-21, 15:09	I just got home from getting my first shot. I did feel the shot, though it was not real bad pain, and I have lingering pain in the arm, a common symptom, but that’s it. I get the second shot in about 3 weeks, so by the end of May I should be more immune, though I highly doubt I’ll be going out more still. My shot was Pfizer. My dad got his second shot a few days ago, with Moderna. The second shot hit him harder (chills, very tired) but after a couple days he was fine. Also good that you’re involved with that Scott, and thanks for all that info, much appreciated
neurokarma 14-Apr-21, 02:27	My wife has had both shots Pfizer (she's a health coordinator in daily contact with the elderly), and has had no side effects whatsoever. I'm waiting to get mine done but here in Italy they're moving at a snails pace but hopefully I should be vaccinated by June. When people ask me why we should all get vaccinated I show them my smallpox vaccine scar on my upper arm and say "this is why smallpox no longer exists because vaccines work). Get vaccinated people.
urbanascott 14-Apr-21, 03:15	Congratulations Joe! I am really happy to hear you got your first shot. Great news!
joveyboy1 14-Apr-21, 15:29	I hope you are able to get the vaccine soon neurokarma Thank you Scott, I do get my second in three weeks. Here's a certain hint of what day it will be. May the '4th' be with us all   The main side effects I've had is a sore arm and now a bit tired it seems...but I'm always tired so it's hard to tell with that one, so minor stuff, nothing even close to being bad, which I expected, I knew there wouldn't be any big side effects.
joveyboy1 05-May-21, 19:20	Got my second shot today. Headache, body aches, and tired, but that's it. I thought I would have slept better last night though. Instead I hardly slept at all, even less so than usual. But oh well, I should be fine in a day or two. I briefly mowed the lawn today, so I still had the strength for that.
urbanascott 05-May-21, 19:56	Congratulations Joe! You are protecting yourself plus your family. You are being very responsible! The minor side effects some people get from the second shot are pretty short lived and last just a day. A small price to pay for protecting you and your family from the virus.
marcusleus 05-May-21, 20:26	My wife and I both have had our 2 moderna shots. We're both glad we have them. My wife has been out of the house to go to a store since January of last year. I've done all the shopping since. We found out about COVID in mid January before the virus made the news. We really can't believe it is still with us. My wife is a retired RN and has studied viruses for the type of nursing she was in. She did not have the seriousness spelled out to her. She was at extreme risk. I was too after cancer surgery in October. The doctors that worked on me made it very plain how significant the risk were.
bearz2 06-May-21, 04:11	we here in Australia are being told about Blood Clots...mind you our goverment are as switched on as a half watt light globe in a power strike
mo-oneandmore 06-May-21, 11:23	Blood clots are apparently a problem with the Johnson & Johnson and Astraxenka vaccines 8 cases among 30,000,000 shots were reported among women in America who received the J & J vaccine and one of them died. The UK reports that 7 people have died from blood clots after receiving the Astrazenka vaccine and Australia has reported one death. As yet: It's a bit uncertain if the vaccines caused any of the blood clots, but don't take small odds on it.
joveyboy1 06-May-21, 13:43	Thank you Scott, yes I agree, I already feel fine today, I knew it wouldn't last long. My 90 year old grandma (you'd think she's in her 60s  ) got her first shot the same day. She was reluctant at first but now is more convinced, so hopefully in a few weeks she'll be fully vaccinated as well. I'm glad you and your wife didn't get the virus and are now fully vaccinated Mark. Yeah this past year has flown by, but hopefully things will improve now with the vaccines getting out more and more. And yeah I've heard a bit about the blood clots. If they do cause them, it's still so rare of it happening, less than 1 in a million I think? A lot more likely to get the virus, so I'm sure I would have still gotten vaccinated even if that was one of the providers I was being given.

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