Are people waiting until 6 months after pfizer or moderna? It seems like a lot of the people getting boosters might be doing so too soon?
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We waited 6 months and the site we got our boosters was verifying the 6 months.
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Glad to hear it. Iāve just had people asking me why I hadnāt signed up for a booster yet, when I didnāt get my second shot until June, which was when the state sign-up app told me to do so. They seem incredulous that I would be waiting. My position before was to wait in line and get the shot when the state figured they had covered most of the at-risk people first and it seems silly to rush it now.
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How racism makes the impact of the pandemic even worseā¦
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im at about seven months*, and just scheduled my boosterā¦ based on what other people are saying here, it sounds like i was super lucky. i only scheduled mine this morning and the appointment is for tomorrow!
if youāre worried about appointment slots at all ā i wonder if you might be able to schedule now for a time thatās at your six month point.
(* when i first got my shots, i was working at a grocery store and was seriously considering lying in order to be seen early. retail wasnāt initially considered āessentialā in my state 
. iām not working there anymore, so i figured iād just wait my turn properlyā¦ iām definitely glad they opened things up to everyone. )
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I feel so owned
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Well, it could be worse. You could feel pwned, which I hear is much worse.
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My second Moderna shot was early/mid April, so mine was seven months. CA was a bit ahead of most states and actually signed off on boosters for everyone a few weeks ago.
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I thought about spelling it that way but I suspect that would now mark me as an uncool old person
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Here in Finland, you can get a booster shot six months after your second shot. Currently, this only applies to 1) elderly, ie. people 65+; 2) people in medical risk groups; and 3) health care personnel who got the first two shots at an accelerated pace.
There are plans to extend the third shot to everyone, eventually, but since we still have ~15% of eligible people who havenāt had any shots (goddamn idiots), the focus is on pushing them into getting vaccinated.
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As usual, I take serious issue with the wording here without even looking at the actual data (just out of experience) - but I take every good news I can get, even if I definitely consider this very likely to be overstated:
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When my kids were ~9 and ~10 I took them to the supermarket one October day. They wondered why I was filling out forms at the pharmacy counter. āSurprise, kids: flu shots!ā 
Seems Theo Moudakis, Toronto Star, has an even better ideaā¦
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Iād rather see Santa asking what they want this year. The kids could reply, āI want to spend Christmas with my grandparents.ā Then Santa brings out the vaccine.
For adults, they could wish that theyāll live to celebrate Christmas this year, but thatās probably too much for a cartoon.
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Sooooā¦ how are they going to enforce the mask mandate in the outer burbs of Buffalo???
The shitshow is about to get really nasty in these parts
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I wish I understood what is going on with New Mexico. We havenāt ever dropped the mask mandate, are 63% fully vaccinated and yet weāre still getting a nasty surge.
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The good news is that our region of Peel in Ontario 
will be holding vaccination clinics at schools as well as the usual locations. A little dash of useful advertising does, I understand, help the numbers.
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I doubt thereās a satisfying answer. But itās been a year since NMās last big surge, and thereās not a single state I can find that hasnāt had a significant surge sometime within the last year, with most of them experiencing a surge much more recently than NM.
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