I have just returned from getting my bivalent COVID-19 booster, which provides protection against the Omicron variant. This makes me quintuply vaccinated, and the folks at Kaiser even tossed in a flu shot for free. I feel like I'm now ready to face the brutal Southern California winter with full protection from all common transmissible diseases.¹
¹Except for the common cold, of course.
I got those two vaccinations today, too.
I'm getting it later today.
Give Kaiser credit. They are very very good about the stuff that keeps you healthy (not surprising, as that saves them money too).
I have all of my currently allowed COVID vaccines. In 6 months I can get the 4th booster. But it is honestly stupid that that is not open to all.
Need to get my flu vax. I work for a hospital. Vaccines are NOT optional. As it should be.
American individualism can be hella toxic sometimes.
Go schedule an appointment and get your flu fax. Now.
Not.yet, but plan to be in early Oct.
Got mine last week. I will be traveling cross country by air so it seemed important to get it asap. In the past, all of my shots were Pfizer and I had no after effects. This time I got Moderna because that was what was available. Felt mild arm soreness and kind of crappy for about 24 hours. My wife, on the other hand had a very sore arm and a very large red bruise at the shot site. This has never happened to her before for any kind of vaccination. It’s been a week and her arm is still sore. The bruise is almost gone. Apparently there is something they call Covid arm that happens occasionally and she got it. We both had the flu shot too in the same arm. I would recommend different arms.
I will likely add to my four shots, but I still cannot help but be reminded of “Eat right. Exercise daily. Die anyway.”
Modulo what you mean exactly by “full protection” you may be ignoring breakthroughs…
> “Eat right. Exercise daily. Die anyway.”
Be very, very happy that humans don't last forever.
Anyway, there's dying a broken, demented blob in a nursing home, and dying on your own terms. Keeping your body functional increases your odds of pulling off the latter.
Amen. Never forget the struldbruggs.
Let's just hope that Peter Thiel doesn't get his wish for immortality; just think of the damage that he & Blake Masters could do then.
Flying back east in a couple of weeks so I got my 4th dose of Moderna yesterday... Starting to feel the after affects... body ache, slight temp, sore arm etc. Should be fine tomorrow. No flu, I'll do that later in the year, early next year.
Got mine week before last, also with a flu shot. Felt a little tired/crummy for an evening, but was fine the next morning. This is probably the new normal from here on out: every September, a coronavirus/flu booster. The very elderly/immunocompromised will still be at risk, but that was true before Covid, too. The unvaccinated will get very sick and die at much higher rates, but I guess after a while as more of them voluntarily exit the general population we'll just get closer to herd immunity.
We snagged a first Monkeypox vaccination at the end of August at a clinic set up during Austin's Pride event (which is in August for some reason), and are scheduled to get the second monkeypox shot this Saturday.
Had I know they'd be definitively making the new Covid vaccine available this month, I would have waited on that, as I feel Covid is a bigger risk to me than Monkeypox (I'm not exactly sleeping around and doing rave circuit parties) … but, it is what it is. They recommend waiting four weeks between vaccinations, so I'll be getting my Covid shot around mid-October.
Did the same thing last week
Yabba dabba doooooo! Got 'em both! Now I just need a p100 mask and I'll be ready to rock an airplane!
Frequent and obsessive hand-washing, social distancing, and wearing a mask in crowds ought to help with the cold thing. I haven't had a cold in three years now (!!) and used to get at least two per year.
I can sympathize with people who can't be vaccinated because of health concerns. It's hard to feel anything positive for people who won't, because their FREEEDUMB! or whatever. They'll keep the virus in circulation and help it breed up to more contagious, dangerous levels.
At some long-past time in the US, people wanted to prevent diseases, particularly if they might be fatal or permanently debilitating. I blame the Republican Party for turning us into a selfish, self-centered mass of same-thinking "individuals" who scorn doing anything that might benefit anybody but themselves.
Getting ready to travel, so got flu, Tdap, and Pfizer Covid booster. Wish I could get Paxlovid as a backup treatment in case I do get Covid while out of the country, but my clock is running and I have too many trips to make before I die.
I'm getting the bivalent one on Friday afternoon. I've gotten side-effects from every Covid vaccine shot I've had (it doesn't help that I actually got Covid before getting the vaccine), so I'm planning around having a day or two to recuperate from that.
I've needed a week or more to recover from every damn covid injection so I've been avoiding going through it yet again.
Probably make an appointment tomorrow.
Oh, good to hear. I did, too, and I was wonderilng how come nobody else here seemed to have. Havent gotten my 4th yet, but they say the side effects are pretty much the same. (groan...)
I had no reactions with my first two Pfzer shots but when I got Moderna for the booster, I was under the weather for a week.
I got my 2nd booster dose back in May. And I got Covid about two weeks ago (picked it up while attending the FSU/LSU game at the Superdome in New Orleans I am pretty sure--that place was absolutely packed). I think I will wait a couple of months for another booster. Honestly the booster makes me pretty sick for a full day every time. Covid made me only slightly sicker, but for 4 days instead of 1. I can't say I feel in a hurry to be sick for a day again.
Scheduled for the bivalent Covid vax and the flu shot on Monday.
BTW, reading this comment thread I am guessing our average age must be 55+. I'm 72.
That's Level 55+.
Finally a place where I'm the youngster - only 55.
Is the flushot trash like it has been for most of the last 5 years?
I got Moderna first available day but both my wife and adult daughter have had appts CANCELLED by CVS in the last few days. So...I suppose many are aware of the bivalent vax and are rushing to get it. That's good? I know I (foolishly) put off booster #2 until it became available.
I am. Wife will be the 26th (we don't get them at the same time). Our 28-year-old kid, who has been SUPER CAUTIOUS and had #4 scheduled this week, just caught covid. 🙁
Yeah, got the flu shot in the left arm and the Moderna bivalent one in the right arm last week. I always feel a little under the weather right after I'm vaccinated, so doing both at the same time seemed more efficient (only one sick day instead of two). I couldn't raise either arm above my head for a full day, though.
There are two variants spreading quickly in different parts of the world, both of which are present in the US but currently under 3%: BA.2.75 (Asia) and BA.5.2.1.7 (Europe, shorthand is BF.7).
I haven't stopped wearing masks indoors.
I've seen those two coming up the chart at the CDC. The older variants are on the way out, but these two aren't.
OT: I know you don't follow the day-to-day comings and goings of the Trump-Cannon saga, but the 11th Circuit Appeals just temporarily stopped (stayed) Cannon's order regarding the classified documents -- https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000183-625b-da48-a3e3-e2ff83050000
It is long but it is meaningful. Skip all the way to page 15 in the PDF to the "Discussion".
I'm convinced that the arguments put forth and accepted by the Appeals Court, with regard to equitable jurisdiction, suggests that the entirety of Cannon's order could be thrown out. Applying the Ritchey test (whether equitable jurisdiction is allowed) to the non-classified items, it's clear that Trump would fail on the first step, and that should be the end of it.
Note that this is a rebuke of Cannon. She -- the "District Court" -- wrote that Trump had failed this first step of the Ritchey test, and thus, his lawsuit should have been rejected. Yet, she seemed to apply an exclusive logic -- that being the plaintiff was FPOTUS -- that only 1 of the four parts of the Ritchey test need apply for her to exercise jurisdiction.
Well, I'm fully vaxxed with two shots of Sinovax and a CCP-approved booster. In other words I'm spending the winter in a plastic bubble!
We got our bivalent boosters on Monday. So far, just sore arms. The symptoms are much milder than the earlier boosters. We're in for flu shots in a week or two. Flu shots don't completely prevent the flu, but it becomes much less common and less severe.
We've had some more serious vaccine reactions. Typhus and yellow fever were monsters. The latter was scary too. We had to go to one of a handful of clinics that had them. Then, we were warned to watch for yellow eyeballs as yellow fever was a potential side effect. In contrast, the three shot rabies series was pretty mild. The shots were lurid pink like Pepto Bismol, and we got to say things like "We're here for the rabies."
First four shots were Pfizer, but had to get a Moderna this time. Recieved the flu shot as well, both in the same arm. The Pfizer shots gave me a full day of feeling pretty crappy; this Moderna just made me a little tired and sore the next day