Topic: Corona Virus Panic/Discussion Thread

Getting my first dose on May 12. Honestly much earlier than I expected.

And how are the results? Did you feel unwell after the vaccine?

@M0rriss I wish I could tell you but I don't know the future
May 12 is in 2 weeks

Yes, sometimes. It looks like I’m already in May =)

@M0rriss I’ve been double Pfizer’d and had a dead arm for a couple of days after the first one and almost nothing after the second.

My wife felt pretty rotten for under 24hrs after her second Pfizer.

I've had both Moderna shots.

Nothing after the first other than soreness in the arm a couple days, but after the second shot I had a light headache, chills, & tiredness the next day (along with numbness in my fingers on my shot arm), though all that only lasted one day.

Mine's AstraZeneca - I know a few people that had it and had flu-like side effects for one or more days but apparently Pfizer is the one statistically most likely to cause mild side effects and Moderna is the safest one.
We shall see

@MarlonJohan maybe if I were smarter I'd see a difference between this and any other fiat currency, but I don't. All of it only holds value because people have agreed it does. And the likelihood I'll live to see the day that everyone stops believing in the value of the US dollar or the Euro or the British pound has got to be somewhere near impossible.

Idk, maybe if I were in someplace like Turkey I'd see it differently. As it is now the crypto craze seems comparable to the fearmongering doomsdayers peddling gold on Fox News.

Also anyone worried about gov debt, at least in Europe and US, should check out Stephanie Kelton's work regarding Modern Monetary Theory.

@zupertramp Crypto’s also needlessly draining with its environmental footprint. Same as these bloody stupid NFTs. What started as some sort of middle finger to banks has just become its own culture of nonsense perpetuated by new-money billionaires instead of old-money billionaires.

@nessisonett I've seen the environmental downsides mentioned frequently (especially with NFTs) but it's a critique I don't follow. Which isn't to say I don't believe it, I just don't understand and haven't cared enough to educate myself. But, devil's advocate, I'd ask isn't there a similar footprint to paper money/coin manufacture?

@zupertramp Well crypto won’t ever replace traditional money and let’s face it, unless they’re massively unrealistic then the progenitors of crypto believe that too. So it will always be an additional environmental impact than replacing the existing issues with traditional money. Even then, just mining Bitcoin will increase the global temperature by 2 degrees Celsius in the next 20 years. It just doesn’t really strike me as a particularly helpful endeavour at this crucial moment in time for so many communities affected by climate change.

That's where I personally and many others believe XRP/Ripple will come into play, once cleared of this SEC lawsuit. & as of now a judge has ordered the SEC must prove why bitcoin, doge and others were not claimed to be investment securities while Ripple was. Not to mention the ex head of the SEC(the one who brought this lawsuit) and his recent shady private investments/maneuvers. It just got really interesting.

Alright - getting stabbed in 1.5 hours. Hopefully it doesn't interfere with my bluetooth earbuds.

Turned out I got the Pfizer vaccine after all (my appointment was originally for AstraZeneca), which means I'll get my 2nd jab sooner.
So far so good, I feel normal.
Didn't notice any difference to my internet speeds

@Voltan Yeah, my mum got the Pfizer one even though everyone else we know got the AstraZeneca one. Idk how they’re deciding who gets what.

@nessisonett It's basically what's available but apparently they don't actually know what's available
When the appointments opened for my age group, it was basically impossible to get one for anything else than AstraZeneca here in the city (Pfizer and Moderna were available in some other regions) but apparently they ran out. I'm not complaining though. If I had the choice I'd probably go with Pfizer anyway.

@RogerRoger My arm hurts a little today (which is expected, I think) but so far nothing else.

I've had my letter from the NHS about booking my vaccination appointment, but still waiting for something more local to pop up. Apparently my sister had a letter from her doctors surgery (which is the same as mine), so will probably just wait for that at this point.

@Voltan That's all I got from the Pfizer the first time and even less second time. It does anecdotally seem that the second is worse for people with Pfizer and the first for AstraZeneca but I've not heard of many people having problems for more than 24hrs either way.