@zupertramp And by way of follow up, it does look like the government says they’ll cover the cost of the vaccine for the uninsured, just so long as you have a social security number.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution Yeah I still can't find anything concrete on that. In fact, where I've found it mentioned that the vaccine is covered, it also mentioned providers can still charge for the syringe etc, and the service more generally which is kind of funny in it's own ridiculous way.
Guess I'll see though whenever my state gets to 30-40 year olds who aren't essential and have no pre-existing conditions.
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@Thrillho Thanks for article. Haven't checked it out yet but I will.
@nessisonett I thought of you yesterday as I saw my neighbors outside and I brought up the vaccine during our extremely socially distanced conversation about things hopefully returning to normal by mid year but my neighbor wasn't having it. He said he wasn't trying to turn into a zombie and then literally cited the movie Legend (the Will Smith one not the Tom Hardy one) as his reason.
So I feel less of an ass for my mild trepidation.
Edit: my bad, I believe the Will Smith film is called I Am Legend. It's that old Tom Cruise film that shares a name with the Tom Hardy gangster flick.
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@zupertramp That line of reasoning kinda baffles me. Like, at this point, Covid is fact and we know that it’s at the very least having dreadful, long-lasting effects on your respiratory system. Whereas the vaccine having side-effects is a mostly unknown quantity. So it’s like... ‘no vaccine that might, if I’m very very unlucky, turn me into a zombie, I’ll take my chances with the widely reported virus instead’?
@nessisonett I'm not gonna lie, I mostly just don't like the idea of injecting obscure sounding ingredients into my body. Kinda have the same view with processed food. But the idea of becoming a zombie really doesn't factor into my assessment at all.
For what it's worth, I tried to reason that he and I both will at least have quite some time to observe whether anyone turns into a zombie but I still don't think he was sold.
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Throw in the lack of support from much of the African American community on account of the Tuskegee thing and we might have a real hard time getting the coverage we need.
There's this large local hospital that was hit extremely hard by Covid received an allotment of vaccines but had so few takers on staff they had to open it up to other segments of the community they thought could benefit. Really seems like something the employer should make mandatory in this case but I guess not.
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@TheIdleCritic that was the meaning i got from it. Kinda like, oh, a spontaneous combustion on live tv... So business as usual for 2020 then.
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@zupertramp Yes lol. Standard stuff. The earth literally splitting into two would elicit a bigger response but still be like, so that's the big finale huh?
@TheIdleCritic You say that but Ian got his head caved in and then married Sharon in the space of like 2 days. Sharon then poisoned his Christmas pudding because Ian locked her son in a room on a sinking ship like 9 months ago and he died. Phil getting shot again is tame compared to the fever dream that is Eastenders.
New Year's Eve curfew issued in my area for everyone 17 and under to help curb spread of covid. So basically problem solved. Pandemic cancelled everyone.
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@nessisonett Keeping a beady Eye out for when I can go back to Australia. What with the mandatory hotel quarantine costing around £2000 in total, and all the restrictions with flying, I need to take my earliest chance. Not that Australia has done amazingly with this pandemic, but the climate certainly makes things easier!
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