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well, shit. I'll second that that fucking sucks. Keep us updated, or have what's his piss do it. You know, that guy we all mutually know. I think his name is Relphh I dunno

Yeah I saw the headline and my blood pressure shot up and then I read the article and just fuckin' saw red. This is absolute lunacy. It's all "muh personal freedoms" to not get a vaccine or to not wear masks and "no one can tell me what to do" but then they feel they have the right to control what other people do I'm so fucking tired of this shit.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-30/dodger-stadiums-covid-19-vaccination-site-shutdown-after-dozens-of-protesters-gather-at-entrance i am going to scream into my own ass so hard it comes back out and cycles back through endlessly until I become a whirling void and the void then goes up these people's asses

Apparently just today they put out a notice saying 65+ were being added in to 1b so who in the absolute fuck knows. Alabama is a shitshow.

Yeah, I did the allergy therapy for about 3 years, covid fucked it up and now I gotta find a new place and start again... but I'm well used to injections now! I'd still get some soreness and maybe lil bumps on days where I switched vials or when I slipped a bit with the needle (I administered them myself) but I think worst injection reaction I've had was a flu shot in my teens and even though I tend to be one of those people who get the pseudoflu for a day or two I don't think I've ever had any major swelling or itching. Lee says his arm is sore today but just in the normal muscle jab way. So far so good! I'll report in if anything changes, I'm trying to keep myself available as far as questions about it go since we lucked out and got it early. I think me getting it and talking about it has really helped ease my dad's mind about it, so now he's just mad at the government but intends to take his as soon as it's offered when before he was saying he'd rather delay and get in on a later wave because he wasn't sure if he trusted it

Arm is still sore but other than a tiny lil bit of red at the injection site no lump or anything, so pretty standard for a muscle jab type shot for me. Better than typical, really, I got sensitive everything so usually I have more reddening at sites. Stomach's a lil torn up and I've got a bit of a headache but so far that's about it. Lee seems to be doing great. edit to add that we got the Moderna version for anyone wondering

Teachers belong in this wave imo. Cops can get fucked. There's a looooooooot of fuckery going down with scheduling for this, it's so disheartening. Apparently there was some kerfuffle in the DFW area because a very affluent area was magically having a lot of vaccines doled out.... to the point where our shithead governor was like cut that out or we're taking them back. Then magically we get a call that we're up for one, and since we're in the "medical condition" category it was quite a surprise, we thought our numbers would come up end of Feb or in March. We jumped on it of course, but now that I'm paying more attention to what's been going down it's SUPER suspicious. The setup for it all was like fuckin' clockwork though, so proper work was put into making it run smoothly and efficiently. It's absolutely possible to get this shit going at a good pace but it feels like people are just sitting on their hands and I want to just scream. According to my aunt, Alabama has given out about 39% of what it has, and people like her and my parents who are over 65 but under 75 but have medical conditions like heart shit and diabetes are being told basically I dunno lol you'll get it when you get it.

Yeah, I can't really blame anyone for seeking information but at the same time oof for the workers. I seriously cannot believe how coordinated and informative our city has been, we lucked the fuck out. My parents have signed up to be on a list but have no idea when they'll be able to get one, and that seems to be the way it is for a lot of people who qualify for current rounds...just no info. What a mess.

Shot #1 done! An hour or so after the fact and I definitely have soreness at the injection site (but really not any different from a normal muscle jab so far) and a smidge of achiness all over, but i dunno how much of that was already there because the weather has my arthritis goin' nuts. I'm one of those people that always seems to get moderate side effects from flu shots for a day or so so I imagine this will be similar. So far Lee is fine!

I empathize with people who are hesitant over it because everything is scary and stressful but jesus christ we haven't advanced science the way we have and gotten nothing out of it

god that is such horseshit

hell yeah, get that bread hopefully it keeps up because they fucking OWE y'all shit's ridiculous

We majorly lucked out in that our city is fuckin' on the ball with scheduling and outreach for it. Local officials have posted info on stuff like facebook and nextdoor and keep a good eye for topics and answer questions. There's been a couple old people on nextdoor who have posted praising the whole process and how quick and smooth and easy it was and people immediately jump in with HOW DO I GET ONE WHERE DO I GO and bam, there's an official with details. Grocery employees should be right after healthcare workers IMO, there's nothing else as essential. Everyone gotta eat. Hopefully it's a Texas spring, considering we had spring weather today, and you'll get yours soon

you might kinda fudge the truth to her about the second one then, it can be rough. Lee's mom felt pretty crappy after shot 2. She bounced back pretty quick but she said it's definitely kinda harsh. She's apparently downplaying the after effects of it to her parents though because they're already anxious about it. Maybe if we put the vaccine in a piece of cheese we can slip it to people like they're pets! "No that's not a needle in the cheese what are you talking about *jab*"

My dad called literally minutes after we saw the email and once I excitedly told him the news his attitude suddenly shifted from what it's been ("welllllllll I just wanna wait and see I don't want to be in the first rounds just to seeeeeeee" type shit) to "oh wow that's great I sure wish I was getting mine that soon" so maybe this will make him seek his way to getting his. He talked about how Alabama as a state is incompetent and is ranked dead last in getting the vaccine distributed, and all that is true but he absolutely qualifies and if he actually starts making inquiries he'll get on track to get his. MIL got her second dose last week, grandparents in law will get their 2nd one soon, so I'm basically same boat... a LITTLE bit of relaxation. Just a lil. I ain't gonna unclench until 2nd shots are done and the take hold period has passed, but it's a damn nice sight to glimpse a lil bit of light at the end of the tunnel.

we just got emails, we're on track to get our first round of vaccines through our city on thursday!

yeah we've had a couple times over the past year that we've had vague "uh oh is this it" and lee had to get tested at one point because of his dumbass cousin but this is the only time where the timing and symptoms have really lined up to where it was panic mode. I'm surprised the whole ass planet hasn't gone grey haired from stress

been feeling increasingly shitty past couple of days and realized it was just over 2 weeks since i'd had a medical appointment where an endlessly coughing woman assured me she had allergies and checked my temp and it was climbing so i imploded and we went and got me a rapid test. It was negative though, so I just have absolute dogshit timing with seasonal crud it seems. I think I aged like 15 years in the time it took us to find a clinic and get it done. I'm so tired of this but I'm so thankful it was negative.

holy fucking shit

My mother in law got her first shot the other day but I won't really feel anything solid about it until she has that second one done. Quite a few people I know have gotten first round it seems, but I apparently know a lot of people working in healthcare related fields. My dad tried to go on some "well I don't want to be in the first round to get it just in case" bullshit and I point blank told him to shut the hell up. I mean for fuck's sake, dude has regularly told me about all his school friends that died of polio before they all got the vaccine. It's a really bitter feeling seeing the man who had me in awe of science as a child try and rope me in to this antiscience dumbass fucking bullshit. After I shut down his attempt at the "well i'm just sayin'" conspiracy shit he proceeded to complain that well he can't get it anyway because Alabama is run by a bunch of incompetent dumbasses, which is true so whatever. My city announced a waiting list for the waiting list and since we both qualify for an earlier round due to other shit I went on and signed us up, so we'll see how long that takes.

This is the hospital nearest to us/that we've had family in multiple times in recent years. Shit's grim.

we had to get out yesterday and since we were in the area we nipped in to a liquor store because we had wanted to make some cocktails at christmas but didn't have everything we thought we had on hand. We grabbed big bottles when normally we'd go smaller. Fuck it. We ain't runnin' out this time!

jesus that's depressing.

As I'm sitting here just stewing over it I'm coming to realize that he likely never was as smart as I assumed him to be, but STILL fucking hell