Topic: Corona Virus Panic/Discussion Thread

@nessisonett

@zupertramp
To be fair spending 15 mil to get potentially millions of people to vaccinate could be cheaper than dealing with long term effects of them refusing to vaccinate.

@Voltan that really only speaks to part of the issue but even if that were the only consideration, this means CA spent $15 million (on 10 people) to get 43% of the state fully vaccinated. That doesn't seem like a very successful initiative, especially when you can't actually say how much of a percentage increase the $15 million provided.

Not against investing money toward vaccination... just don't think lotteries are the way to go.

@zupertramp Thanks. I also had one of the best nights sleep in ages. About 7 hours straight through, which is rare for me. I did have a paracetamol before going to bed, so that might of helped.

My arm has been aching all day, but that is a small price to pay and I've experienced way worse. Plus the booze I've had tonight has dulled the pain.

I would have thought reducing the risk of dying from Covid would be incentive enough. :-/

My second jab caused a similar, but milder, reaction to the first, with my bones feeling like they'd been drilled into. The fever wasn't as bad, so I'll call that a win and hope I don't need a booster shot later in the year!

@JohnnyShoulder Glad your jab went well and hope your arm gets better soon. Was it Pfizer?

@mookysam Thank you! Hope your reaction to the second jab does not get worse. And yeah it was Pfizer.

@zupertramp I mean, yeah, there has to be a better way

@Kidfried

@Kidfried so... How'd it go? Nothing like the gif I hope.

@Kidfried Yeah, but I bet you’re so magnetic that you can just attach your keys to your arm. No more need for pockets!

@Th3solution Funny I just literally, in the last couple hours, lost my set of car keys at the mall. Being magnetic would have saved me an hour or so of backtracking and dealing with an unhelpful mall security. Also would have saved me the $120 it cost to recut the key.

So I say if there's a vaccine that magnetizes you, bring it on!!

Edit: Wouldn't mind having better 5G cell reception either, if that's also a side effect.

@zupertramp Also, sterility for free! Save money on a vasectomy!

@Th3solution that's very true. I've already done my part in contributing to overpopulation so that'd work for me too.

I got my vaccine! The Pfizer one apparently and now my arm is killing me, I feel like I’m on fire and I have a thumping headache. Hooray! Bizarrely one of my friends I went to high school with got theirs at the same centre and got the Moderna one. And another few people I know got the AZ one from there.

@nessisonett You should do some arm exercises, it'll save you a bunch of muscle strain tomorrow.

@Octane I’ve been swinging it around like a windmill. I look like a character from Donkey Kong 64.

My arm that is. For clarification.

@nessisonett I was going to ask Wanky Kong, but thanks for the clarification.

@Octane

What’s the latest in Europe/UK as far as COVID cases and society returning to normalcy?
It seems like the US has pretty quickly been heading back to “normal” state and most public spaces are gathering again. However, I’m hearing that the new strains have some resistance to vaccines and so for the first time in a while the case counts and hospitalizations are trending up again. So I was curious if you’re seeing similar things on the other side of the pond.

The Olympics ought to be interesting. Not sure if they have decided about crowds yet. I hear Japan has a really low vaccination rate, so not sure I’d want to cram into a stadium or a subway with a bunch of people from all over the world. Seems a perfect set up for spreading a pandemic — bring a bunch of people together, mix them up and spread things around for a couple weeks, then let them all go back home and spread it back to their home countries. For a virus trying to reach maximal exposure it would be the ideal set up.