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Wish our VA van was running. It is still shut down because of the pandemic' I hope it gets going pretty soon. I no longer drive and it is very hard to scrounge rides for that 55 mile trip to the VA. I was able to get both of my Covid shots from our county health department. No problems at all.
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I got my first dose of Pfizer vaccine two weeks ago and go back next Wednesday for my final. No side effects or discomfort at all.
Here in Pennsylvania it was a mad scramble to get appointments and my wife was spending much of her time searching. Finally she was told about a new site, called and was successful! The catch was that this was a two and a half hour drive each way! It was a nice day and a pretty ride up into the mountains out past State College.
It was actually nice to get out!
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We have a network of women in our area who are constantly on the computer trying to get appointments for people...my wife got her first shot in New Paltz about 30 miles away...Friday we go to Troy N.Y about 65 miles away. Thank goodness our local VA clinic still has the van runs . Too bad you could not take advantage of the APS while you were near State College.
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Dakota, have you reached out to your local American Legion or VFW post? Oftentimes, these organizations are willing to help vets get places, especially important runs like the VA. My home Legion Post does a lot of community service work, although others are mostly social clubs these days. Worth a phone call!
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Second shot yesterday. First one was bad, I fell while walking nearby and had to get help to get home. This one, not much results. I am waiting and know it's early yet
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I haven't had any problems getting transportation. The VA arranged it so I get my blood draws at our local clinic
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Well it hit me, hard today! Went walking with my wife this afternoon, felt so so but on return had dizziness.
My wife thinks they minimize the after effects especially on older folks.
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Got my first Pfizer shot today. No pre-existing health conditions. Just a sore arm from the shot. Get the second shot in four weeks. I'm guessing I'm two years younger than Snick1946.
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Snick,
Please let us know how you get on. I know that everyone here is hoping and wishing for you to pull through without any more symptoms, and get back to enjoying life with your family!
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Got dose 2 Monday. Saturday night and I'm still feeling it. Throat dry and sore. Usually that subsides evenings but today it hasn't. Will call my doctor Monday to check in if this isn't better.
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My wife and I both had covid back in December and actually shared the same room for about 4 days, since she went in before me and then I left after she did. Later she was able to get her immunization a couple of weeks before me and of course had a reaction to it and then it was my turn and I had to have a reaction also. Same thing with the second shot for both of us.
But the shots were certainly worth it, to us anyway, because going through all involved with having covid was something I wouldn't wish on anyone. Like most of you that report to be still waiting, or have waited a long time to get the immunizations, there are still a lot of people down here waiting also. Having my wife working at the hospital has been a boon a couple of times, but that all ends April 1st, which is coincidentally "Doctors Day" and she will attend the party they will have for the Doc's and then when she leaves she will be retired and 2 weeks later will have her 78th birthday, sharing it with the part of the family we have in Seattle.
Stay safe and get those shots,
Mike
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Two weeks Monday since my second shot. Throat still sore and dry; my wife says its swelling of pituitary glands, like you get when you have Covid. just annoying.
Lots of people don't get this but I did. Also no energy, I walk a couple blocks and get very tired.
Still beats getting it.
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I took my wife for a doctors appointment at Vassar in Poughkeepsie.... i waited in a sort of lobby where a 20 something girl was checking temperatures and asking people if they knew where they were going. We spoke a bit and i asked if she had her shots...i was surprised when she said No..that she was going to wait she did not trust the vaccines. I guess being vaccinated is not a condition of employment.
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Got our shots booked for 14th. April, hopefully we will not have to stand around like these folks.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/covid-19-winnipeg-supersite-delays-1.5966128
Regarding the medical staff, I think an awful lot of them have not been vaccinated, seem to recall a news article recently that said just over 50% in some hospitals.
As someone said the best shot is the earliest one you can be given. Any of them are better than none.
My rellies back in UK have all had the AstraZeneca one, no after problems at all.
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I have completed both shots, arm was sore for a day after the first one, about like after a nuckle punch when I was a kid so nothing really, and no issues at all after the second shot. The shots were the Pfizer vaccine.
We are still trying to get my wife in for vaccination shots as she just became eligible.
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Hey Snick,
I'm so happy to hear that you are feeling better!
And Phil, I would guess that you didn't take any science courses in High School. Political "science", maybe?
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I must be lucky. I have had both of my shots. I got the second shot on February 26. I had no problem at all with either shot. I had the Moderna.
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Had my first shot of Sinovac March 15, no after effects, Just a lil tired waiting in the lineup on the malecon for 10 hours, second shot in a couple of weeks
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All of us, in our family unit, are fully vaccinated (2 "jabs" of Pfizer): That's 10 vaccines altogether. Usual symptoms: tired and sleepy (which I blame "retirement and not doing much of anything", and confinement during the Pandemic--with a capital P. My wife's mother (my 90-year old mother-in-law) suffered from the vaccine "red arm." She's OK now.
FLORIDA: As of today, Friday, April 2, 2021, 3,501,600 Florida residents have been fully vaccinated with the coronavirus vaccine. The St Augustine Record, 4/2/2021
Florida's total population, 2021: 22,223,716
Percent of Florida residents vaccinated with at least one dose: 29.57%
Percent of Florida residents fully vaccinated 17%
Florida does not require a citizenship/nor full residency to receive the vaccine.
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As of Wednesday I’ll be invincible! Got my second dose of Pfizer a week ago. I had no reactions, funny thing is my arm was sore after my Shingles shots!
I was in the supermarket today, still wearing my mask, but less apprehensive than before!
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Notified today that I get my second jab on Monday.
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I finally booked my vaccine this morning. Shot #1 is on May 7, #2 is on August 27.
Fingers crossed neither is cancelled!
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My second shot is in early May.
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Got my first this week on Thursday; next one in May.
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I am hoping to hold out for the Novovax vaccine.
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What is getting scary is all of the people who have just decided enough is enough and are out and about. Someone I know posted that they went to a car show in New Jersey yesterday and it was packed. Note that the virus has been on the upswing in that state!
My wife's sister is a social butterfly that cannot sit still. All during this pandemic she and her husband were out to dinner, visiting friends and going about their lives. My wife questioned her about getting the vaccine, as my wife could see all her friends did, and she said it wasn't a big deal.. she'd get it when it was easily available locally.
On Easter we see on Facebook they were in Boston. And were inviting themselves to see my daughter and her three kids, age three and other this week... My daughter told her no, she wasn't comfortable with a visit.
Guess what they have now?!
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Wife and I had our first Pfizer shots on 14th, she felt a bit heady for a couple of days but is ok now. I had no after effects.
I appreciate the medical profession would treat everyone with the illness but I sometimes think that the ones who say it is a hoax or who will not be vaccinated should sign a disclaimer to say they are not to be treated if they get sick with Covid 19 or it's variants.
We have stayed home, no visitors and not gone visiting for over a year now, I get the groceries as necessary, wife goes out to get her meds once a month.
Missing the children and grandchildren but so far no one in the family has become ill. Yes it is annoying when folks think the "rules" are for everyone other than them.
Does seem to be getting worse here in Canada at present.
Stay safe everyone.
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Got Pfizer #2 on Friday. Arm less sore than with first shot. Not a big deal either time, but I did have minor flue-like symptoms yesterday (beginning about 24 hours after the shot). The symptoms lasted about 14-16 hours. And now we wait for the booster to arrive???????
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Don't we just LOVE the panic porn!!!
Anybody see Bill Maher - yes, the lefty, on Friday night? I suggest you creep out from under your bed to give it a look-see. It's on twitter:
https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1383296276020617224
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Flue-like symptoms? A sooty kind of feeling?
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Had my second shot this past Saturday ( 4/17 ) It was the Moderna brand. No reactions to the first one, but after second dose, My arm and left side of my neck felt stiff as a board. Then I started getting headaches and was running a mild fever. Today is Monday and all that is left is the stiffness in the arm.
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Here in the USA it’s been reported that 50% of adults have had at least one dose. Also reported is that new cases are up 25% and hospitalizations are up 10%... no doubt because people are out and about.. doing what they wish! It ain’t over!
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Fully vaccinated for almost a month now. Still avoiding crowds and still masking up when out and about. But thEn out and about is very limited. Went to grocery store the other day and 99% of folks were masked and politely leaving room for others. No crowdinb Everyone was still doing the social distance thing!
Our last stamp club meeting was also fully masked and socially distant as well.
But then stamp collectors have not been an overly gregarious type. Much rather stay in the den with the stamps and the albums1
One of the clubs I belong to has been meeting regularly for a few months, but most of the stamps we auctioned ended up smelling like hand sanitizer after being passed around the table! And all of us are of an age that we have been fully vaccinated.
As for the antivaxxers, after 14 years i the US Army and tours in Saudi Arabia and Viet Nam, I have had enough vaccines (with the accompanying microchips) to trigger airport metal detectors! No ill effects from the microchips except at the airports!
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"Flue-like symptoms? A sooty kind of feeling?
Big Grin"
I must have been unaware of a minor longer-lasting brain function symptom I was experiencing as well! 
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Had my first Moderna jab yesterday. No idea when second jab will be. They keep taking our vaccine allotments for 'hot spots'.
In British Columbia, Canada, we are about to be confined to health Zones. Anyone stopped outside of their zone without a valid essential reason for travelling will be fined.
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My first Moderna was a piece of cake - zero soreness or anything at all. The second Moderna gave my immune system a mild workout - ran a temp of 102 for a day, some arm swelling, and then felt much better the third day after. But definitely worth every bit of it!
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“I need to see your papers, miss” Holy cow. I had no problems with either shot and am glad to be vaccinated.
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I am one week past my second doze of Pfizer. I had no reactions at all to either doze !
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I got my second Pfizer jab on Monday.
Sore arm, sore neck and a bit woozy until this morning.
Now fighting fit and raring to go.
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Very good for all of you on getting your vaccines, well done! I hope the momentum keeps going and we don't hit that "vaccine wall" where not enough people will be willing.
Tom, so glad your daughter had the good sense and the backbone to say "no" to her aunt's visit. So hard to resist pressure from family sometimes. Good for her!
Theresa, yes my experience was similar with Moderna. No reaction at all to the first, but the second hit me hard. 103° fever and chills first night, 101° fever and bedridden next day. After that, 2 days of fatigue and then back to perfectly normal. Wasn't fun, but I would do it again in a heartbeat. At least I know it wasn't a placebo!
Now getting my 26-year-old son vaccinated; he just had his first last week. The worry is, he is on chemotherapy and his platelets are getting lower every month. Understand this is a concern with the vaccines, but the doctors tell us frankly, they don't know. So his 2nd vaccine next month is going to worry me sick for sure.
At any rate, I'm still getting groceries via curbside and not going anywhere except necessary medical appointments until he's off chemo, so still isolating. But every time I have to drive somewhere, I decide I'd rather be home than out there in the world anyway! Now if only I could find time to work on my stamps....
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StampWrangler: There was a very short bit on CBC news a few weeks ago about the Astra-Zeneca vaccine, saying that people with low platelets should not get this vaccine. He should be OK if it isn't that one. I'm wondering myself, 12 days to my first vaccine shot appointment, no idea of which I'm getting. If it's the AZ vaccine, I'll politely decline and try re-booking. It's the government doing my shot, so hopefully it'll be something else.
I do believe the AZ is a one shot deal. So if your son has a 2nd upcoming, as do I, we should be OK.
EDIT: whoops AZ is a two shot affair, according to Brechinite. I thought it was a one shot deal.
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The AZ is a two shot system.
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I believe we are at a critical point in the USA. There is enough vaccine for everyone but a good number of people are refusing, and now have had enough of social distancing and are out and about, doing as they wish. Covid numbers are up in a few states. Millions are not showing up for their second dose. We need 80% compliance for herd immunity.
Still the world isn’t in great shape. I’m just watching TV and India is having a surge. I was in touch with a car friend in South Africa this week who said they don’t have vaccine available yet.. maybe beginning of 2022 he said.
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Here in Scotland we have eased some restrictions but I have this feeling that cases will start to rise again as the population goes crazy for the shops and pubs.
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Our new restrictions in Manitoba as from Wednesday.
• no visitors will be allowed to private households either indoors or outdoors with certain exceptions including allowing one visitor for people who live alone:
• no indoor gatherings will be permitted and outdoor gatherings of up to 10 people will be allowed in public outdoor spaces only:
• faith-based gatherings will be limited to 25 per cent capacity or a maximum of 10 people, whichever is lower, with indoor mask use required at all times:
• patio dining will be restricted to groups of four people only with no household restrictions:
• food courts in malls and shopping centres will be required to close:
• gyms and fitness centres continue to be limited to 25 per cent capacity, but individuals, patrons and staff will be required to maintain physical distancing of three metres (nine feet) from others:
• spectators at outdoor sports and recreation facilities will be limited to one parent/caregiver spectator per youth participant, if physical distancing of two m (six ft.) is maintained:
• dance, theatre and music schools will continue to be limited to 25 per cent capacity, but the new orders will limit the maximum number of people on site to 10 with one parent/caregiver spectator per youth participant, if physical distancing of two m (six ft.) is maintained:
• personal service business will be able to continue to operate at 50 per cent capacity, but appointments will be required:
• day camps will be permitted to have up to 10 children indoors and outdoors: and
• retail stores must be limited to 25 per cent of the capacity of the store or up to 250 patrons, whichever is lower, and malls will be limited to 25 per cent of the facility’s capacity.
These will apply for the next 4 weeks as we are starting to see a third wave take hold.
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I got my second Pfizer up the road apiece from Philb, in Queensbury. My arm was sore both times but nothing more than that.
I don't believe I've seen any anti-vaccers post here; not sure if that's because there aren't any or they just haven't chimed in.
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The VA van took 7 of us up to the VA hospital in Albany for our second dose...its a 60 mile straight run on the Thruway...we left Kingston N.Y. at 8 a.m. ...at 10 a.m. we were back on the bus and 11 a.m. we were back in Kingston....the driver does not change lanes...he was in the fast lane all the way. 12 hours later my wife is waiting for me to keel over...no bad effects yet !
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Wish our VA van was running. It is still shut down because of the pandemic' I hope it gets going pretty soon. I no longer drive and it is very hard to scrounge rides for that 55 mile trip to the VA. I was able to get both of my Covid shots from our county health department. No problems at all.
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I got my first dose of Pfizer vaccine two weeks ago and go back next Wednesday for my final. No side effects or discomfort at all.
Here in Pennsylvania it was a mad scramble to get appointments and my wife was spending much of her time searching. Finally she was told about a new site, called and was successful! The catch was that this was a two and a half hour drive each way! It was a nice day and a pretty ride up into the mountains out past State College.
It was actually nice to get out!
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We have a network of women in our area who are constantly on the computer trying to get appointments for people...my wife got her first shot in New Paltz about 30 miles away...Friday we go to Troy N.Y about 65 miles away. Thank goodness our local VA clinic still has the van runs . Too bad you could not take advantage of the APS while you were near State College.
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Dakota, have you reached out to your local American Legion or VFW post? Oftentimes, these organizations are willing to help vets get places, especially important runs like the VA. My home Legion Post does a lot of community service work, although others are mostly social clubs these days. Worth a phone call!
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Second shot yesterday. First one was bad, I fell while walking nearby and had to get help to get home. This one, not much results. I am waiting and know it's early yet
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I haven't had any problems getting transportation. The VA arranged it so I get my blood draws at our local clinic
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Well it hit me, hard today! Went walking with my wife this afternoon, felt so so but on return had dizziness.
My wife thinks they minimize the after effects especially on older folks.
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Got my first Pfizer shot today. No pre-existing health conditions. Just a sore arm from the shot. Get the second shot in four weeks. I'm guessing I'm two years younger than Snick1946.
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Snick,
Please let us know how you get on. I know that everyone here is hoping and wishing for you to pull through without any more symptoms, and get back to enjoying life with your family!
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Got dose 2 Monday. Saturday night and I'm still feeling it. Throat dry and sore. Usually that subsides evenings but today it hasn't. Will call my doctor Monday to check in if this isn't better.
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My wife and I both had covid back in December and actually shared the same room for about 4 days, since she went in before me and then I left after she did. Later she was able to get her immunization a couple of weeks before me and of course had a reaction to it and then it was my turn and I had to have a reaction also. Same thing with the second shot for both of us.
But the shots were certainly worth it, to us anyway, because going through all involved with having covid was something I wouldn't wish on anyone. Like most of you that report to be still waiting, or have waited a long time to get the immunizations, there are still a lot of people down here waiting also. Having my wife working at the hospital has been a boon a couple of times, but that all ends April 1st, which is coincidentally "Doctors Day" and she will attend the party they will have for the Doc's and then when she leaves she will be retired and 2 weeks later will have her 78th birthday, sharing it with the part of the family we have in Seattle.
Stay safe and get those shots,
Mike
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Two weeks Monday since my second shot. Throat still sore and dry; my wife says its swelling of pituitary glands, like you get when you have Covid. just annoying.
Lots of people don't get this but I did. Also no energy, I walk a couple blocks and get very tired.
Still beats getting it.
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I took my wife for a doctors appointment at Vassar in Poughkeepsie.... i waited in a sort of lobby where a 20 something girl was checking temperatures and asking people if they knew where they were going. We spoke a bit and i asked if she had her shots...i was surprised when she said No..that she was going to wait she did not trust the vaccines. I guess being vaccinated is not a condition of employment.
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Got our shots booked for 14th. April, hopefully we will not have to stand around like these folks.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/covid-19-winnipeg-supersite-delays-1.5966128
Regarding the medical staff, I think an awful lot of them have not been vaccinated, seem to recall a news article recently that said just over 50% in some hospitals.
As someone said the best shot is the earliest one you can be given. Any of them are better than none.
My rellies back in UK have all had the AstraZeneca one, no after problems at all.
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I have completed both shots, arm was sore for a day after the first one, about like after a nuckle punch when I was a kid so nothing really, and no issues at all after the second shot. The shots were the Pfizer vaccine.
We are still trying to get my wife in for vaccination shots as she just became eligible.
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Hey Snick,
I'm so happy to hear that you are feeling better!
And Phil, I would guess that you didn't take any science courses in High School. Political "science", maybe?
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I must be lucky. I have had both of my shots. I got the second shot on February 26. I had no problem at all with either shot. I had the Moderna.
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Had my first shot of Sinovac March 15, no after effects, Just a lil tired waiting in the lineup on the malecon for 10 hours, second shot in a couple of weeks
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All of us, in our family unit, are fully vaccinated (2 "jabs" of Pfizer): That's 10 vaccines altogether. Usual symptoms: tired and sleepy (which I blame "retirement and not doing much of anything", and confinement during the Pandemic--with a capital P. My wife's mother (my 90-year old mother-in-law) suffered from the vaccine "red arm." She's OK now.
FLORIDA: As of today, Friday, April 2, 2021, 3,501,600 Florida residents have been fully vaccinated with the coronavirus vaccine. The St Augustine Record, 4/2/2021
Florida's total population, 2021: 22,223,716
Percent of Florida residents vaccinated with at least one dose: 29.57%
Percent of Florida residents fully vaccinated 17%
Florida does not require a citizenship/nor full residency to receive the vaccine.
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As of Wednesday I’ll be invincible! Got my second dose of Pfizer a week ago. I had no reactions, funny thing is my arm was sore after my Shingles shots!
I was in the supermarket today, still wearing my mask, but less apprehensive than before!
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I finally booked my vaccine this morning. Shot #1 is on May 7, #2 is on August 27.
Fingers crossed neither is cancelled!
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My second shot is in early May.
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Got my first this week on Thursday; next one in May.
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I am hoping to hold out for the Novovax vaccine.
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What is getting scary is all of the people who have just decided enough is enough and are out and about. Someone I know posted that they went to a car show in New Jersey yesterday and it was packed. Note that the virus has been on the upswing in that state!
My wife's sister is a social butterfly that cannot sit still. All during this pandemic she and her husband were out to dinner, visiting friends and going about their lives. My wife questioned her about getting the vaccine, as my wife could see all her friends did, and she said it wasn't a big deal.. she'd get it when it was easily available locally.
On Easter we see on Facebook they were in Boston. And were inviting themselves to see my daughter and her three kids, age three and other this week... My daughter told her no, she wasn't comfortable with a visit.
Guess what they have now?!
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Wife and I had our first Pfizer shots on 14th, she felt a bit heady for a couple of days but is ok now. I had no after effects.
I appreciate the medical profession would treat everyone with the illness but I sometimes think that the ones who say it is a hoax or who will not be vaccinated should sign a disclaimer to say they are not to be treated if they get sick with Covid 19 or it's variants.
We have stayed home, no visitors and not gone visiting for over a year now, I get the groceries as necessary, wife goes out to get her meds once a month.
Missing the children and grandchildren but so far no one in the family has become ill. Yes it is annoying when folks think the "rules" are for everyone other than them.
Does seem to be getting worse here in Canada at present.
Stay safe everyone.
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Got Pfizer #2 on Friday. Arm less sore than with first shot. Not a big deal either time, but I did have minor flue-like symptoms yesterday (beginning about 24 hours after the shot). The symptoms lasted about 14-16 hours. And now we wait for the booster to arrive???????
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Don't we just LOVE the panic porn!!!
Anybody see Bill Maher - yes, the lefty, on Friday night? I suggest you creep out from under your bed to give it a look-see. It's on twitter:
https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1383296276020617224
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Flue-like symptoms? A sooty kind of feeling?
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Had my second shot this past Saturday ( 4/17 ) It was the Moderna brand. No reactions to the first one, but after second dose, My arm and left side of my neck felt stiff as a board. Then I started getting headaches and was running a mild fever. Today is Monday and all that is left is the stiffness in the arm.
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Here in the USA it’s been reported that 50% of adults have had at least one dose. Also reported is that new cases are up 25% and hospitalizations are up 10%... no doubt because people are out and about.. doing what they wish! It ain’t over!
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Fully vaccinated for almost a month now. Still avoiding crowds and still masking up when out and about. But thEn out and about is very limited. Went to grocery store the other day and 99% of folks were masked and politely leaving room for others. No crowdinb Everyone was still doing the social distance thing!
Our last stamp club meeting was also fully masked and socially distant as well.
But then stamp collectors have not been an overly gregarious type. Much rather stay in the den with the stamps and the albums1
One of the clubs I belong to has been meeting regularly for a few months, but most of the stamps we auctioned ended up smelling like hand sanitizer after being passed around the table! And all of us are of an age that we have been fully vaccinated.
As for the antivaxxers, after 14 years i the US Army and tours in Saudi Arabia and Viet Nam, I have had enough vaccines (with the accompanying microchips) to trigger airport metal detectors! No ill effects from the microchips except at the airports!
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"Flue-like symptoms? A sooty kind of feeling?
Big Grin"
I must have been unaware of a minor longer-lasting brain function symptom I was experiencing as well!
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Had my first Moderna jab yesterday. No idea when second jab will be. They keep taking our vaccine allotments for 'hot spots'.
In British Columbia, Canada, we are about to be confined to health Zones. Anyone stopped outside of their zone without a valid essential reason for travelling will be fined.
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My first Moderna was a piece of cake - zero soreness or anything at all. The second Moderna gave my immune system a mild workout - ran a temp of 102 for a day, some arm swelling, and then felt much better the third day after. But definitely worth every bit of it!
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03:32:13pm
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“I need to see your papers, miss” Holy cow. I had no problems with either shot and am glad to be vaccinated.
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I am one week past my second doze of Pfizer. I had no reactions at all to either doze !
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Very good for all of you on getting your vaccines, well done! I hope the momentum keeps going and we don't hit that "vaccine wall" where not enough people will be willing.
Tom, so glad your daughter had the good sense and the backbone to say "no" to her aunt's visit. So hard to resist pressure from family sometimes. Good for her!
Theresa, yes my experience was similar with Moderna. No reaction at all to the first, but the second hit me hard. 103° fever and chills first night, 101° fever and bedridden next day. After that, 2 days of fatigue and then back to perfectly normal. Wasn't fun, but I would do it again in a heartbeat. At least I know it wasn't a placebo!
Now getting my 26-year-old son vaccinated; he just had his first last week. The worry is, he is on chemotherapy and his platelets are getting lower every month. Understand this is a concern with the vaccines, but the doctors tell us frankly, they don't know. So his 2nd vaccine next month is going to worry me sick for sure.
At any rate, I'm still getting groceries via curbside and not going anywhere except necessary medical appointments until he's off chemo, so still isolating. But every time I have to drive somewhere, I decide I'd rather be home than out there in the world anyway! Now if only I could find time to work on my stamps....
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08:48:34am
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StampWrangler: There was a very short bit on CBC news a few weeks ago about the Astra-Zeneca vaccine, saying that people with low platelets should not get this vaccine. He should be OK if it isn't that one. I'm wondering myself, 12 days to my first vaccine shot appointment, no idea of which I'm getting. If it's the AZ vaccine, I'll politely decline and try re-booking. It's the government doing my shot, so hopefully it'll be something else.
I do believe the AZ is a one shot deal. So if your son has a 2nd upcoming, as do I, we should be OK.
EDIT: whoops AZ is a two shot affair, according to Brechinite. I thought it was a one shot deal.
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I believe we are at a critical point in the USA. There is enough vaccine for everyone but a good number of people are refusing, and now have had enough of social distancing and are out and about, doing as they wish. Covid numbers are up in a few states. Millions are not showing up for their second dose. We need 80% compliance for herd immunity.
Still the world isn’t in great shape. I’m just watching TV and India is having a surge. I was in touch with a car friend in South Africa this week who said they don’t have vaccine available yet.. maybe beginning of 2022 he said.
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Our new restrictions in Manitoba as from Wednesday.
• no visitors will be allowed to private households either indoors or outdoors with certain exceptions including allowing one visitor for people who live alone:
• no indoor gatherings will be permitted and outdoor gatherings of up to 10 people will be allowed in public outdoor spaces only:
• faith-based gatherings will be limited to 25 per cent capacity or a maximum of 10 people, whichever is lower, with indoor mask use required at all times:
• patio dining will be restricted to groups of four people only with no household restrictions:
• food courts in malls and shopping centres will be required to close:
• gyms and fitness centres continue to be limited to 25 per cent capacity, but individuals, patrons and staff will be required to maintain physical distancing of three metres (nine feet) from others:
• spectators at outdoor sports and recreation facilities will be limited to one parent/caregiver spectator per youth participant, if physical distancing of two m (six ft.) is maintained:
• dance, theatre and music schools will continue to be limited to 25 per cent capacity, but the new orders will limit the maximum number of people on site to 10 with one parent/caregiver spectator per youth participant, if physical distancing of two m (six ft.) is maintained:
• personal service business will be able to continue to operate at 50 per cent capacity, but appointments will be required:
• day camps will be permitted to have up to 10 children indoors and outdoors: and
• retail stores must be limited to 25 per cent of the capacity of the store or up to 250 patrons, whichever is lower, and malls will be limited to 25 per cent of the facility’s capacity.
These will apply for the next 4 weeks as we are starting to see a third wave take hold.
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11:37:37pm
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I got my second Pfizer up the road apiece from Philb, in Queensbury. My arm was sore both times but nothing more than that.
I don't believe I've seen any anti-vaccers post here; not sure if that's because there aren't any or they just haven't chimed in.
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