Topic: Corona Virus Panic/Discussion Thread

@Thrillho My parents were both knocked out for a couple days after their first Astra shots. I've also heard about the same happening to some after Pfizer but yeah, anecdotally it seems to be mostly what you said.
I guess I'm also feeling a little more fatigued than usually at this time of day but it's nothing worrying. I might take a little nap (my cat has the right idea)

@Voltan All I need to know is if it has in any way impaired your Returnal skills. Perhaps it has enhanced them? Have you developed super powers? Glow in the dark? X-ray vision?

My reaction to the first AstraZeneca jab was horrific. It does anecdotally seem to be better for the second jab, thankfully. I'm due to have my second one early next month. My siblings should be offered other jabs now the government have decided to not give under-40's the AZ one.

@JohnnyShoulder Mine was through my GP at a clinic they'd set up in town with other local surgeries. They haven't rung me about the second one yet, but I'm going to wait as on the NHS website the only available places are in Birmingham.

@mookysam Oof, sorry to hear you had a bad reaction to your first jab. My 73 year old mum had her second Pfizer jab a couple of weeks ago, and that wiped her out for the rest of the day. She was fine the next day however. She just got a sore arm from her first jab.

I don't drive, so am limited to where I can go.

My brother got his second shot & my mother her first yesterday (both Pfizer). Only holdout now is my father.

Everyone else is moving out of lockdown and my area’s staying in tier 3

Poland's approaching 50% of people vaccinated but it looks like it may never get past that point... because the rest refuse to get vaccinated 🤬

Texas is admittedly doing okay. I mean we killed enough people in a year's time to rival both heart disease and accidents combined but all is well that ends well I guess.

Got my vaccine 3 days ago. Extremely sore arm that 2nd day but otherwise fine. Same with my wife and children. Youngest got the Pfizer and the rest of us the Moderna. No signs of autism yet but suspiciously having a hankering to watch Funny Girl so idk, you decide.

@zupertramp After my MMR vaccine, I suddenly started craving showtunes. It just hit me like a truck, without a daily intake of Streisand I would go into withdrawal.

@nessisonett All part of The Plan.

First Pfizer vaccine yesterday. No side effects apart from a sore arm

@Voltan Somewhere there’s a whole room filled with nondescript suits saying ‘there’s no business like show business’

@nessisonett

I'd still like to know why touching the do it yourself registers at the grocery store is apparently perfectly fine but certain restaurants don't even want you to come inside at all let alone touch their order screens. Better yet there's people yelling at you for not wearing a mask when you are more than 6 feet away. I also love the people all alone in their cars wearing a mask. Seriously? Must be awful being so scared of every thing around you. How do you people even get out of bed in the morning?

As a wise Jedi master once said, "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you"

The real pandemic here is paranoia.
NB4 the flood of users telling me I'm the crazy one.

@Zeldafan79 I mean you kinda are.

Store managers can generally decide for themselves what the regulations are, so different stores, different rules. The government doesn't regulate it on that level. Some will be more relaxed with the rules, other will enforce more strict regulations. That's not hard to understand, right?

About touching the screens, on average people are touching less of them, therefore limiting the spread. Though IMO, those screens, especially the ones used regularly, should be cleaned more often during this time.

People may wear a mask in a car for various reasons. For some it's a hassle if they also have glasses, ear rings, air pods, long hair, etc. Maybe they're only driving for a couple of minutes and don't bother taking it off. The less you touch the mask, the better it is. Maybe they forgot about it? Maybe they simply don't mind it? Who really gives a flying F what people do in their own car? As long as they're not bothering anyone else, they can do however they please.

The only people being paranoid are those that make an issue about someone else wearing a mask in their own car.

@Zeldafan79 You’re in grocery stores for less time. And you have to take your mask off to eat in a restaurant. There are many differences between the two situations.

Curious to see if the numbers are going to start going back up in the U.S. now that the CDC has stated that vaccinated people don't have to wear masks most places. Because, lol, every covid skeptic in the country is going to lie and say they're vaccinated now, and there's basically nothing you can do to stop them.

I wear a mask pretty much everywhere outside of my house because frankly it's just not that hard to do. Putting on shoes is far more work than wearing a mask in my opinion. And if that's the level of effort we're talking about here, I don't know man, I'd just as soon do it than not because really what's the downside to wearing it and being wrong?

Also I think we're finding that touching things just doesn't really spread these kinds of respiratory viruses. So that's perhaps all theater (the cleaning I mean) but then again it helps guard against bacterial borne illness so idk still not seeing a serious downside.

@Ralizah honestly we let it run rampant long enough that it has probably killed enough of the most vulnerable that, with as many as we have vaccinated now, we're probably out of the woods for the most part. Might see a spike in cases but less deaths to be sure.

@JohnnyShoulder Thanks. It was okay after a few days, but I honestly wasn't prepared to feel quite that bad! My brother and his fiancée both had their first Pfizer jab the other day and haven't had any problems.
I don't drive either and am apprehensive about getting a train or bus, so it has to be somewhere close enough I can get a taxi.

@Ralizah What are the vaccination rates like in the US? Here the Indian variant could cause problems, but with the WHO and government saying that all the jabs are effective it will hopefully be okay. Luckily the UK is less vaccine-sceptical than other European countries.