To Vaccinate or Not---The Rat Flu Odyssey Continues

[The AD]

Yes, I suspect this is probably fairly accurate.

[old goat]

AD--put your arms out straight to the sides so your hands are at shoulder level and have someone push down on your arms. If there is severe weakness of the affected shoulder it's possible that the injection hit the axillary nerve. If you can't lift the arm at all it's very likely. You will probably notice some weakness from the pain even if the nerve is intact. That's OK, but dramatic weakness is not. If you flunk the test see a doctor. That's about the only thing the injection could have done to the shoulder that won't get better on its own and fairly soon.

[summit]

Seen swollen axillary lymph nodes after vaccination that caused soreness to the point of interfering with athletic activity

[The AD]

AD--put your arms out straight to the sides so your hands are at shoulder level and have someone push down on your arms. If there is severe weakness of the affected shoulder it's possible that the injection hit the axillary nerve. If you can't lift the arm at all it's very likely. You will probably notice some weakness from the pain even if the nerve is intact. That's OK, but dramatic weakness is not. If you flunk the test see a doctor. That's about the only thing the injection could have done to the shoulder that won't get better on its own and fairly soon.

OK, I passed this test so that's good.

[knumbskull]

Colorado is joining the vaccine lottery program "Colorado Comeback Cash"

https://covid19.colorado.gov/coloradocomebackcash

The odds are pretty good as far as lotteries go. If you haven't been dosed yet, no rush. The money is ALL MINE! BACK OFF! You don't deserve a shot or the lottery winnings! Just kidding, get dosed already.

[MTT]

Let's see what you experts make of this: I'm now over a week past my second shot and there's no question that the shot fucked up my shoulder. I'm a swimmer and I know about shoulder problems, and that's what this is. Not to say my shoulder was 100% healthy before the shot, but I hadn't had any significant pain prior to the shot for years, so it was the shot that was at least the straw that broke the camel's back. Does this even make sense? Could it just be some residual inflammation? Could they have jabbed me in just the wrong spot? I really didn't expect to still be affected by the shot eight days later.

My shoulder is also really messed up. Really messed up. I keep reinjuring it by sleeping the wrong way or lifting myself up with my left arm. Started about a week after first shot. Got second shot April 7th.

[The AD]

My shoulder is also really messed up. Really messed up. I keep reinjuring it by sleeping the wrong way or lifting myself up with my left arm. Started about a week after first shot. Got second shot April 7th.

Yeah, those are the things that really aggravated it the first couple days for me, too. Hopefully I'm beyond that stage now, but it definitely isn't back to 100%.

[Mofro261]

My shoulder is also really messed up. Really messed up. I keep reinjuring it by sleeping the wrong way or lifting myself up with my left arm. Started about a week after first shot. Got second shot April 7th.

Dood, my left shoulder is the same, been a couple horrible months of sleeping and arm pain.

My pain started ~5 weeks before the first shot so I had them put the vax in the right arm instead. Sure, I got some immunity now, but man neither dose of the vax did anything to stop the pain in my left shoulder!

[old goat]

Dood, my left shoulder is the same, been a couple horrible months of sleeping and arm pain.

My pain started ~5 weeks before the first shot so I had them put the vax in the right arm instead. Sure, I got some immunity now, but man neither dose of the vax did anything to stop the pain in my left shoulder!

My doc injected my supraspinatus tendon and it's helped my impingement syndrome a lot you should try it. (It's nice having an internist who likes to do stuff like injecting sore parts, burning precancerous skin lesions, etc. rather than sending me to a specialist.)

[frorider]

On Wednesday, WSMV reported that a woman in eastern Tennessee was arrested after she drove recklessly through a drive-in COVID-19 vaccination site to protest the administration of the vaccine — nearly hitting several health workers in the process.

"Deputies arrested Virginia C. Brown, 36, of Greenback, TN, on Monday morning after she drove through a vaccination center set up at the Foothills Mall," reported Chuck Morris. "Deputies assigned to assist at the site saw a blue Chrysler SUV traveling at a high rate of speed through a closed cone course and through an enclosed tent with several Health Department and National Guard personnel working under the tent.

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[Not DJSapp]

Food for thought: with places offering more and more incentives for getting vaccinated, how long before someone who hails from Florida ends up in a headline for OD'ing on vaccine because the government was offering $100/shot and they were just going on the vax clinic circuit? There's gotta be some bath salt smoking meth head that's going to try this.

[Casey E]

Seems a “mobility pass” just unveiled in Chile, for fully vaxed folks registered with the govt (should be all via the “unique tax number”, which you carry to your grave), is doing well.

Log in online and you get a digital pass with your data and a QR code. Coppers and other officials just scan it for control. This allows for moderately greater mobility intra/infra regions and comunas.

Bonus: Got my first overnight stay in over a year at our ski area apt. Fines were high before, if infrequently enforced.

The measure was/is hotly debated and criticized by many MD’s, but the vaccine centers have seen a surge in interest, important now that the 20 somethings are up for the first dose, and the vaccine drive started to stall with the under 40’s, in the midst of a third wave. The mobile vaccination vans directed at hotspots, large industry, etc have also been overwhelmed.

Over 50% of adults are now fully vaxed, and getting to the 80% objective for July 1 was looking improbable.

[Adolf Allerbush]

Food for thought: with places offering more and more incentives for getting vaccinated, how long before someone who hails from Florida ends up in a headline for OD'ing on vaccine because the government was offering $100/shot and they were just going on the vax clinic circuit? There's gotta be some bath salt smoking meth head that's going to try this.

I've been wondering this as well. It has to happen right? And then the antivaxxers will latch onto it and use it as a reason to not get vaccinated.

[Not DJSapp]

I've been wondering this as well. It has to happen right? And then the antivaxxers will latch onto it and use it as a reason to not get vaccinated.

And the rest of us that can understand context will say 'yeah, it's not a good idea to get 12 vaccines in a week'

[old_newguy]

The future for the unvaccinated:

“Kroytz and the other ICU nurses have not seen this many COVID-19 patients at once in six months. As of Thursday, all 24 beds were full in the ICU, including five patients with the virus. Three of the infected patients are on ventilators.”

“ Dr. Louis Davignon, who works in the St. Charles Bend ICU, sees the benefits of getting the vaccine. Since March, 98% of infected patients were not vaccinated, he said.”

https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavir...accinated.html

Sucks for the rest of us who might need that bed when we have an emergency.

[The AD]

Food for thought: with places offering more and more incentives for getting vaccinated, how long before someone who hails from Florida ends up in a headline for OD'ing on vaccine because the government was offering $100/shot and they were just going on the vax clinic circuit? There's gotta be some bath salt smoking meth head that's going to try this.

Sounds like a great idea for a new superhero origin story: Vax Man.

[k2skier112]

And the rest of us that can understand context will say 'yeah, it's not a good idea to get 12 vaccines in a week'

In Oregon, the state puts your name in the lottery once you're vaxed. You only get one entry in OR

[neufox47]

Food for thought: with places offering more and more incentives for getting vaccinated, how long before someone who hails from Florida ends up in a headline for OD'ing on vaccine because the government was offering $100/shot and they were just going on the vax clinic circuit? There's gotta be some bath salt smoking meth head that's going to try this.

Paging Mofro for this most serious issue. What would happen if you kept getting another vaccine every week? Day? Could you actually OD without some stupid dose like .5 Liters? Inquiring minds want to know and I smell an Ig Nobel Prize for the answers.

[Jacques Strap]

[old goat]

Paging Mofro for this most serious issue. What would happen if you kept getting another vaccine every week? Day? Could you actually OD without some stupid dose like .5 Liters? Inquiring minds want to know and I smell an Ig Nobel Prize for the answers.

You start growing spike proteins out of your head.

[bennymac]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...ancy-1.6044904

Death bed denials, pandemic 'hoax' accusations common in southern Manitoba hospital patients, doctor says

Staff at Boundary Trails Health Centre are routinely hearing from sick and unvaccinated patients who believe the pandemic is a hoax — some remaining defiant even on the brink of death.

"We hear this almost every day, and I know that's startling," said Dr. Ganesan Abbu. "It's difficult ... to know that almost 100 per cent of our admissions have not been vaccinated."

“ I've had two patients who have died and even right until the time that they died, they didn't believe that they had it," Abbu said.

"I think nurses have found it difficult to handle a community, certain segments of the community, who believe that this is a hoax, that the virus doesn't exist, and other untruths, like the vaccine is going to put a chip into each one of us who's been vaccinated and people will be able to track us," he said.

[LeeLau]

That's sad benny. What's the predominant cause of hesitancy in So MB?

[bennymac]

I’m not sure. Mennonites?

[wooley12]

The internet.

[XXX-er]

The guy-in-the-sky people are wanting to meet unmasked every sunday, 3 local churchs were fined last weekend, can they really aford the 2300$ ticket ?