One year of COVID, a reflection.

Sanity never wins. Madness just nukes itself and sanity briefly pokes its head out of the cave to check the direction of the wind.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

.....sanity briefly pokes its head out of the cave to check the direction of the wind....

...and promptly gets shat on by a passing pigeon. Such is life.

https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1393022731373973504

Because Big Pharma and Big Gub'mint would never lie to us or behave in a hypocritical manner in order to control our behavior.

Used to be thinking folks questioned authority. =9[.]9=

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xjjanie wrote:

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

.....sanity briefly pokes its head out of the cave to check the direction of the wind....

...and promptly gets shat on by a passing pigeon. Such is life.

Beats a mouthful of irradiated air.

Oh look, another wackadoodle source -- that dude's twitter history is a cliched joke. But sure, the video's real. So what? It's no newsflash that the medical industry has its doubters (especially in admin rather than frontline workers), or that people in the US aren't being forced to vaccinate. Were the former untrue you'd just claim the latter is too. That's the fun part about embracing conspiracy over fact: you can always just embrace another ludicrous explanation when reality gets in the way.

60% staff vaccinated tracks: it's on par with the US itself, give or take. Of course some people, a lot of people, are going to wait and see how it pans out if they aren't at risk. The AZ kerfuffle is ample proof that the long road to effective regular vaccination of a new, unpredictable virus we must learn to live with bumpy and yes dangerous.

But some of us, to whom Covid would be absolutely a serious threat, have to walk it anyway. So, to the fence-sitters and the naysayers waiting to see how we necessary guinea pigs handle these early, problematic attempts at vaccination, I say just this: you're welcome.

Got my first last week, hurt my arm like hell. but back to work today :)

Got my first last wednesday. Let's just say I'm glad I didn't have work on thursday and friday. I primarily got hit by pain and a mild fever, but that sure was enough to make me feel completely and entirely useless.

Interesting to read Pfizer is brutal as well. I sort of convinced myself that AZ wss cheap and nasty (the former is true at least) and that Moderna and Pfizer were these luxury versions reserved for countries that needed higher quality jabs. Efficacy wise it's true: both are roughly 95% effective vs AZ's 75%. But in terms of effect, it stands to reason that all three might temporarily kick your arse. They're telling your body what to do if it receives this strange invader in a very loud voice. Which is, obviously, very good.

It felt like a mule had kicked me in a 2 cm square spot on my shoulder.

I doubt I'll be afforded such a choice, unless they actually don't have any AZ on hand. I don't mind. No clots first time, certainly none the second. Interesting to read a study indicating increased efficacy with an AZ/Pf mix but it does say small study so I'm not going to put too much faith in it.

I was reading some depressing news that vulnerables with reduced B cell count don't always benefit significantly from vaccination. For them, extra boosters and higher doses may be the only way. Thankfully I'm on a TNF inhibitor which doesn't affect B cell production.