My mother is waffling on getting the shot for similar reasons. She know that being getting immunized against the disease is great and important but doesn’t want to go through the experience of going into anaphylactic shock again. It’s causing her quite a bit of stress and dissonance.
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Yeah, the situation there is messed up and the city doesn’t have a lot of great options in how they try to control spread with that many tourists in town. A curfew could send people off the beach (where, even though they’re partying like drunken irresponsible fools at least they’re outdoors) into small hotel rooms where they’ll probably continue to party in a location where transmission is easier. It’s truly a game of whack-a-mole until they can get the spring breakers to go home.
The article included this disturbing quote:
So it would seem that forcing these people to leave their hotels and drive home isn’t an option, even with emergency powers in place.
Miami Beach does still have a mask mandate in place so I hope they’re citing the hell out of violators.
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So when you force those few who have legitimate reasons to forego the shot and they go into anaphylaxis?
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Read more carefully plz…
Edit: aw, you deleted? No fun! 
Edit 2: Thanks for restoring your post. Now were having fun! (Well, sort of.)
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Reading carefully is for those who got decent sleep last night…
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This is an idea I could get behind
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I’ve been through anaphylactic shock, and oh wow do I never want to again. They told me I was fifteen minutes from death, and that the other two drugs they pushed were to keep that dosage of epinephrine from killing me on its own. I’m also pretty sure that I’ll experience a flareup of my rheumatoid arthritis, which is less terrible but still quite undesirable.
But considering what we’re vaccinating against? Hopefully I can time it so that both shots precede a crappy, rainy week.
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Everyone I know who has had two shots had one rough day after the second shot, whether 40-something coworkers or my 85-year-old father. Basically fever and exhaustion for about 12-24 hours. Presumably a good sign! My mother has RA, just one shot so far, though.
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My “research” so far suggests that the vaccination will light up the joints most likely to be lit up by a bottle of red wine (sulfites and sodium nitrite are both triggers for me) and that my odds seem best with the Pfizer vaccine. So I’m preparing for the worst and hoping for the best.
I also plan to use it as an opportunity to experiment: when my disease was poorly controlled, I consistently found zinc to very helpful. So will it have a noticeable effect when the inflammation is triggered from a different part of the system? I can find upsides to almost anything.
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In the new 32,449-person trial, two-thirds of participants were dosed with the vaccine while the remaining third were given a placebo. There were five cases of severe disease in the trial, all in the placebo group. None of the vaccinated participants required hospitalization.
Notably, the company also found no increased risk of blood clotting events or cases of a rare, life-threatening blood clotting event, called CVST, among those vaccinated
While there’s the real possibility that the cases are simply a statistical fluke, some researchers hypothesize that the vaccine may—rarely—spark an autoimmune reaction that explains the illnesses, and they have suggested possible treatments along those lines. Other researchers have also noted that a link between the vaccine and blood clotting events is not implausible; COVID-19 itself is linked to blood clotting disorders, and research suggests that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can activate immune responses that can lead to clotting.
Emphasis mine: so maybe that certainty reported above was misplaced.
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Rule of law is all right with me. My beef is with the incompetents actually made these restrictions, or rather: who thought that exception clauses would pass as-is before the courts.
I am so exhausted by this. I just want it to stop, want the political sphere to realise #NoCovid is a way forward, and shut the fuck everything down for real for once.
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Sixteen?
Update: Madame Mrs the Ratel is scheduled, as an educator. I’m weighing setting an alarm for Wednesday morning.
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I keep getting notifications about this company from various sites. Despite the apparently-legit clinical trials this one just feels snake-oily to me. I hope my paranoia is misplaced.
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Most of my knowledge of statistics revolves around maintaining awareness of just how weak my knowledge is. That said, wouldn’t only five adverse events in the control group indicate that the study lacks statistical power?
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MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2021
Maskholes
Sometime last summer, during a low case period of covid, I was out walking on a fairly wide path. A couple were coming they other way. My age or so. As I tend to do I stepped off the edge of the path to give them wide berth to get by me without getting any of my covid cooties.
This made the guy a bit annoyed, “we’re outside! breeze is blowing! we don’t have to do that!” He wasn’t a real jerk, but you could tell he probably could be a real jerk about the issue. On that side of the ridiculous “covid safety” culture war.
I’m not personally extreme about being “covid safe.” I largely make the effort to be polite to others. I’m not going to get mad if someone invades my space a bit. But that it is polite to do so will annoy the types of people who get annoyed by such things.
After All This, if there is an after, especially if it’s a mostly after, people are going to readjust their views of personal space. Wearing masks will remain normal for some, regularly or at least when sick. And some people, like my friend above, will get annoyed and belligerent about it all.
by Atrios at 15:48
This is the anger of someone who knows, deep down, that they are wrong, and someone else, doing what is right, is threatening the thin veneer of their rationalizations.
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I hope the spray works well in this application but based on the headline I can’t help but think of this:
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A whole month of free donuts for me, then…
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