Hooray!
Unless people think it’s annoying, I’m going to post these once a week:
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Aaaaaaaaaand now I don’t know how I’ll go about re-integrating with the wider world and am a little anxious about that aspect of the vaccine? Wow, that came out of nowhere! Nothing to do with the champagne gif though, that’s awesome.
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Yeah, I feel ya.
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We’re definitely feeling that here. Partly we’re being pushed a little: our elders, some of whom we were podding with, are close to being fully vaccinated (two weeks and mother-in-law and step-mother-in-law will both be set, getting their second shot this week) and some of them, particularly family not in the pod, are fidgety. In fact the father-in-law shows up from CA this evening (he’s, I think, two weeks past his second shot). I continue to be concerned for my son, who at 4½ won’t be getting any shots for a long time. It sounds like our family will be floating around at 80%+ (but maybe closer to 70% protection against actually contracting it?) immunity in short order, but the wider community?
We spent a chunk of our stimulus check on a backyard playset because he so missed playgrounds: we’ll probably have to sort out how we feel about him playing on those, though, before we consider kindergarten.
Here’s what the CDC says:
Onebox isn’t accurate:
When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated
How to Protect Yourself and Others
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html
Also reading, re-reading, and mulling this:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/25/health/parents-covid-vaccine-wen-wellness/index.html
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Good help me, someone on NPR this morning: “But, deaths aren’t rising…”
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Thank you for all of this. We’re in a similar situation with a little one scheduled to begin 1st grade this Fall. Strange days.
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Alternatively, she blamed state prime ministers who negotiate joint efforts and harmonised rules with the federal government and fucking do something else entirely the day after the negotiations every fucking time since fucking September.
They have been delaying measures, have been slow at implementation after they agreed on measures, and started circumventing or even dropping measures before that was agreed (after they pushed for it).
I know it is a tough job to to the right thing, politically. I can even acknowledge that more is at stake sometimes than individual lives, even if I disagree on arguments brought forth that there is no all-trumping universal right on life and health. (Fuck that noise.)
But what we are experiencing is incompetence to understand basic natural sciences.
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Honestly, I don’t feel like anything changed except my anxiety level. All the usual covid behaviors remain, but I worry less. So, all good, I guess.
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Just for the record: not everything is terrible, just the most of anything.
One of my in-laws is down with a fever, her immune system works: she’s the first in the family who has received a vaccination. AZ. Yay for her, even if she feels shitty.
OTH, a municipality where I got a lot of contacts which go way back today again stopped giving doses of AZ (to women under 55) after two cases of sinus thrombosis.
Sigh.
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While Pfizer and Moderna used fetal cell lines only in testing, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine used a fetal cell line called PER.C6 in manufacturing and development. PER.C6 is from an 18-week-old fetus in 1985 — the vaccine itself does not contain fetal cell lines.
It is currently uncommon to receive the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in Summit County. St. Anthony Summit Medical Center, for example, has only received Moderna and Pfzier vaccines. Nevertheless, the hospital’s scheduling system tells the public what vaccine they are receiving in case people want to reschedule.
County vaccine distribution volunteer Ken Maldonado said he has witnessed only one Johnson & Johnson vaccine drive-thru clinic. Maldonado, a Catholic, received the Pfizer vaccine before the Johnson & Johnson one was available, and he said he has no issues with helping people get vaccinated with it.
“If you did the research, you would see that the stem cells that were used were so far removed from the aborted fetus … and it did not contain any of those cells.” Maldonado said, adding that the Pope getting vaccinated made his decision even easier. “This is years of regeneration.”
Maldonado likens vaccine preferences to any issue individual Catholics are divided on, such as gay marriage or contraception or what holy days and practices people do or don’t obverse. He said it’s mainly the older parishioners who are worried about the fetal cell lines.
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Meanwhile, other Catholics are…the pope.
(deep sigh)
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According to General Paulo Sérgio, the Brazilian Army expects the 3rd wave of COVID-19.
General Paulo Sérgio is the responsible for the Army’s human resources sector, including the health area.
The general believes that Brazil will face a new stage of the pandemic in 2 months.
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Not that anyone here needs this, but, coming soon to a “journalism” outlet near you…
With the COVID-19 pandemic potentially nearing an end, Trump administration officials responsible for managing the crisis have begun to try to spin their way out of the carnage that the virus left behind.
A CNN documentary on the course and handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, released this past weekend, provided an opportunity for some of the top officials involved to tell their version what happened.
In this case, former HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir and White House COVID Response Coordinator Deborah Birx went out of their respective ways to play down the consequential decision to leave handling the pandemic to the states and to release guidance that would artificially lower the number of positives in the run-up to the 2020 Presidential election.
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School vans will transport the dead by Covid to cemeteries in São Paulo. The company that was selected by the city to carry out the corpse transport service hired iddle school transport drivers, who were out of work because of the measures that suspended classes.
The vehicles will be adapted and will operate without seats and the yellow school identification stickers.
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Good? This way, they are promoting the value of life-saving therapies derived from stem cell lines to the general public. The people who will be scared off by this we’re already firmly on their side and people on the fence aren’t going to be drawn into the false boogeyman any more.
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Or my mother-in-law who will not get any of the vaccines. She does not see the selfishness inherent in putting her moral qualms about dead fetuses ahead of the health of her own children and grandchildren. Or her own health. She also won’t stop traveling. I expect she thinks she’ll get access to my child when my husband and I are vaccinated. Which is not the case. That conversation is going to be epic.
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