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Got my annual COVID vaccine yesterday. I get it every year but always dread it because I typically feel like shit afterwards. This time has been no exception. Woke up last night with severe pain and body aches, now I have the typical fever and feel like I got hit by a bus. Hoping I feel better tonight because I am working tomorrow and I would feel like a loser if I had to call out because of a shot that I got two days prior. I can't even take the dogs out today though, it is rough as it always is. Maybe one of these year's they'll make a version of the vaccine that doesn't make people feel like ass afterwards.
 
ZZLPHeels said:
Got my annual COVID vaccine yesterday. I get it every year but always dread it because I typically feel like shit afterwards. This time has been no exception. Woke up last night with severe pain and body aches, now I have the typical fever and feel like I got hit by a bus. Hoping I feel better tonight because I am working tomorrow and I would feel like a loser if I had to call out because of a shot that I got two days prior. I can't even take the dogs out today though, it is rough as it always is. Maybe one of these year's they'll make a version of the vaccine that doesn't make people feel like ass afterwards.
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I've rarely had a reaction to Covid boosters but this current one knocked me on my ass, too. Fortunately, it was just a day. Got it Saturday afternoon a few weeks ago. Felt horrible all day Sunday. Woke up Monday morning feeling completely back to normal. Hope it's the same for you.
 
This is absolute insanity and reckless.

‘Never seen anything like this’: alarm at memo from top US vaccine official​

Vinay Prasad memo said at least 10 children had died from Covid vaccination – but offered scant evidence for claim

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“The ultimate outcome will be fewer vaccines and more vaccine-preventable illness,” said Dan Jernigan, former director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases until this year.

.......The 10 child deaths were among children aged seven to 16 in 2021 to 2024 and reported in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a crowdsourced database to which anyone may submit reports, according to Vinay Prasad, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) and the chief medical and scientific officer at the US Food and Drug Administration.

www.theguardian.com

‘Never seen anything like this’: alarm at memo from top US vaccine official

Vinay Prasad memo said at least 10 children had died from Covid vaccination – but offered scant evidence for claim
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
donbosco said:
My recollection...


Looking back to March, Five Years ago. For my students and I the Eighth Week of the Spring Semester of 2020 (ending March 6, a Friday), was scheduled to lead us into a week-long break. Over the 7 days that followed Covid-19 drastically changed the way the world was arranged. Presaging it all, on that same Friday - way out west - the University of Washington announced that it was going online with classes “for at least the next few weeks.” We watched and waited but little suspected that we were on the cusp of something for which we had no schooling whatsoever. Information was garbled and overload slowly but steadily set in.

The trump Whitehouse offered mostly obfuscation and “ass-covering-doublespeak.” The nation was leaderless and many of our other institutions seemed caught off-guard. At my school, an email on March 11 directed us to extend our Spring Break an extra week and return to class online by way of Zoom or Google Meet technology on March 23. The projection was that we should prepare to teach that way until April 6. As we all know, we did not return to campus in early April but rather finished out the semester online and stayed in distance-learning mode through the Summer and Fall of 2020, and the Spring and following Summer of 2021. I did not return to a brick and mortar classroom until the Fall of 2021 — and at that time with all of us masked and most vaccinated. Myriad good reasons meant that others would take longer to go “face-to-face.”

Amidst all that hurly-burly and having not planned for a planetary event I was attending the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies gathering in Austin, Texas — Wednesday, March 4th through Sunday the 8th. I arrived in Austin early on Tuesday to keep a commitment with a local high school college prep program called ‘Austin Achieve.’ I noticed a few masked passengers in the airport upon landing in Texas. Nothing was different at all at the high school.

On Friday, March 6, the second day of that conference the city of Austin canceled the music festival known as South By Southwest. That was the same day that the U. of Washington moved online. The next day, Saturday, I gave my paper at an afternoon panel. Heading out by plane the next morning there were considerably more masks along with a palpable, and growing, sense of trepidation.

In the background a cruise ship had been stranded — off the coast of California and refused docking due to virus suspicions - ultimately crew members tested positive. In the meantime I had caught an interview online with Dr. Michael Osterholm. He convincingly cautioned that what we were seeing — now called the Corona Virus or Covid-19 — was deadly, on the rise, and would change the world. Sickness and death in New York City and Italy were making the news. My family and I were scheduled to fly into Newark on Wednesday, March 11 for a few days in The City. We canceled our plans. That very day The World Health Organization noted 118,000 cases in 114 countries and declared a Pandemic. On Thursday college basketball was cancelled just as March Madness was set to start.

The world seemed to be crawling with deadly invisible killing germs. No one knew if it was in the air or on the things we touched. Masks were urged but they were nowhere to be found. Recipes for hand sanitizing liquids, to supplement the now bought-up supply circulated. Panic buying and hoarding brought shortages. There was no toilet paper. We would learn so very much over the months to come. A new kind of education was aborning. Thoughtful folk were scrambling for information. We did not ‘come together.’ Things changed. Normal evaporated. A new normal began to shape. And still is.

I realize now that with the crashing inward of the world in the Third Month of Two Thousand Twenty of the Common Era that I started writing - and perhaps even thinking - in a way that I never had. Reaching back, for good or ill, and grabbing semblances of past ‘normals.’ And realizing that such a state is, in fact, ever-shifting, never still, and both deeply personal and widely shared all at once. I wasn’t just reaching back either but also reaching out for the lost human contact of the past - of playgrounds and ball courts and barrooms and buses. I learned too - as have so many of us - that “You can’t go home again” because home did not sit waiting while you were away. Indeed…
“…the dark ancestral
cave, the womb from
which mankind emerged
into the light, forever
pulls one back-but…
You can’t go home again…
You can’t go..back home
to the Escapes of Time
and Memory. You can’t
go home again.” ~ Thomas
Wolfe

Oh yes, and while we are piling on the adages - Home is ever with my family, ever Where The Heart Is. Ever Before Me. Ever Before Us.
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Six Years Now.
 
Thank God that Dr. Lynch never figured out how to use the life raft to come over here. He was perpetually bleating about how Covid was "in the rearview mirror" as thousands died every day. Lynch and his ilk likely killed tens of thousands.

Obviously, January 6 was bad, but in my view, Trump's mishandling of COVID was the worst thing he ever did. Where is the justice when one man is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and suffers no consequences for his actions?
 
I was in Poland for work in early March of 2020, just when Covid started becoming "a thing". I think I got there on the 6th and left on the 13th. One of my co-workers, also from the US, left early over fears that we wouldn't be able to leave if international travel shutdown. I flew in/out of Frankfurt on the 13th and they basically closed it for international travel 5 days later.

My wife and I were supposed to leave on the 14th for a cruise out of Florida. When I got home on the evening of the 13th, it was still happening. A couple hours later - cancelled.

Crazy stuff.
 
lawtig02 said:
I've rarely had a reaction to Covid boosters but this current one knocked me on my ass, too. Fortunately, it was just a day. Got it Saturday afternoon a few weeks ago. Felt horrible all day Sunday. Woke up Monday morning feeling completely back to normal. Hope it's the same for you.
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That's generally a boost of interferon.

Same for me. Some boosters cause that delayed reaction. Some don't. I usually get my boosters on a Friday or Saturday so that any reaction is over a weekend.
 
UNCMSinLS said:
Thank God that Dr. Lynch never figured out how to use the life raft to come over here. He was perpetually bleating about how Covid was "in the rearview mirror" as thousands died every day. Lynch and his ilk likely killed tens of thousands.

Obviously, January 6 was bad, but in my view, Trump's mishandling of COVID was the worst thing he ever did. Where is the justice when one man is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and suffers no consequences for his actions?
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There's a poster on here whose posting style is very similar to lynch. Doesn't post often, thankfully. Can't think of the username at the moment.
 
Bigs23 said:
I wonder how many of those poor students actually survived the COVID shot....
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I went into the classroom for the fall semester of 2021 with a lot of trepidation. I had gotten my shot but the classroom set-up was not particularly encouraging. In two classrooms I had full enrollment (22) but in a classroom that seated 35 so students were required to be spaced out. They put a sneezeguard-like plate up between me and the students -- I was supposed to stand behind it while teaching (Ha! I'm a wanderer -- cannot stand still during class). I had another class (22) in a room with a capacity of 25. No spacing but the ridiculous sneezeguard was there. Everyone was masked. Students had a lot of absences -- I encouraged them not to come in if they had the slightest chance of being sick or exposed. I ran Zoom from the front of the room with my laptop facing the screen on which I projected our maps and other materials. If they let me know ahead of time I would send the link. The audio was good for me but anyone zooming in could not hear student questions and comments. It was less than idea to be sure.

Equipment that would make a truly hybrid set-up possible does exist but we didn't have it. None was ever purchased. If I had access to it today I could make good use of it. But there is a good deal of resistance to making such set-ups possible. Academia is filled with Zoom Haters -- many students feel likewise. The two groups tend to feed on one another IMO.

I still permit students to Zoom into classes if work, or transportation, or sickness keeps them away from class. Zoom technology has improved in the realm of audio a good deal...there are also some slight improvement on visuals. The Zoom Haters make this very frustrating as most of the technology is available and from what I can tell, not that expensive.
 
We don’t get the vaccine anymore. Don’t see much point now. Wife works in a nursing home and it’s not even a very big issue with the elderly there. Occasionally someone will go to the ER with it but she can’t recall anyone who has died lately.
I suspect the wife and I have had the Covid variant “cicada “ this past week. No fever but stuffy nose, nasty cough, and aches and pains with hot flashes that has lasted 4 or 5 days, which seems to line up with that variant’s symptoms. Only doubt is the wife did test herself with a an older kit we have and it was negative.
 
HandsonFire said:
We don’t get the vaccine anymore. Don’t see much point now. Wife works in a nursing home and it’s not even a very big issue with the elderly there. Occasionally someone will go to the ER with it but she can’t recall anyone who has died lately.
I suspect the wife and I have had the Covid variant “cicada “ this past week. No fever but stuffy nose, nasty cough, and aches and pains with hot flashes that has lasted 4 or 5 days, which seems to line up with that variant’s symptoms. Only doubt is the wife did test herself with a an older kit we have and it was negative.
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I get it with the flu shot. Why not?
 
I have never had a bad reaction to a vaccine or any sort of shot in my entire 71.5 years of life. The only time I was at all worried about getting a vaccine was in basic training in the Army when we were lined up in our shorts and nothing else to get mass vaccinated and the medical NCO said something like, "Boys this isn't going to hurt, but if you jerk when this spray gun injects the vaccine, it will open up your arm like a straight razor." Don't know if he was telling the truth or not, but it sure made us all hold still as the vaccines were administered.
 
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