This is the reason I am drinking heavily.
[Contest] When will I get the COVID Vaccine?
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The pressure and pain has abated since I woke up tonight. Got lots of water on hand for the shift.
Lost the entirety of Saturday to fever, chills, sweats, and pretty debilitating pain. Still kinda headachey and slow today, though not enough to skip (a likely pathetic attempt at) exercise.
My brother had the same deal when he had his Pfizer #2 a few months ago (hospital/ER physician). On the bright side he says an outsize reaction seems associated with a higher antibody counts later on (they test them at his hospital, apparently), so yay?
#2 received on Sat. Feelin' fine.
Check back around lunchtime.
Jason Kenney literally ran away from dealing with shit today, left the Assembly to the protest of the NDP.
Thousands flock to 'No More Lockdowns' rodeo in rural Alberta
On the same day when Alberta announced 2,433 new cases of COVID-19, thousands attended a rodeo outside of Bowden, in defiance of the province's health regulations.
calgary.ctvnews.ca
Silence from the government and the RCMP do what they do best, nothing.
This patent waiver shit reminds me why we need to divest profit from our health system ASAP.
All the pharmaceutical companies making the vaccines were getting huge gains on Wall Street, until Biden announced a patent waiver so other countries can have easier access to the vaccines. The share price for every single one of the companies that make the vaccine immediately tanked. Does any of this feel right to you guys? It was bad enough investors were flocking to those shares to make a dollar off the pandemic, but it's even more annoying that once the profit gains were stalled by opening up the vaccines for the betterment of the world, all the profit hounds started jumping ship. I swear, this shit makes me so angry.
All the pharmaceutical companies making the vaccines were getting huge gains on Wall Street, until Biden announced a patent waiver so other countries can have easier access to the vaccines. The share price for every single one of the companies that make the vaccine immediately tanked. Does any of this feel right to you guys? It was bad enough investors were flocking to those shares to make a dollar off the pandemic, but it's even more annoying that once the profit gains were stalled by opening up the vaccines for the betterment of the world, all the profit hounds started jumping ship. I swear, this shit makes me so angry.
If you actually look at the market, the crashing thing is a load of BS anyways.
No.
And this sort of thing has already been the subject of plenty of sci-fi (and other) stories. "We've discovered the cure, but we will keep it to ourselves and only distribute it to the favored few. *CRASH* Oh no! It's Dr. Protagonist and his crew!" "You villains! That cure belongs to everyone!" <scuffle ensues>
--Patrick
As an update, my son and I didn't really have any side effects from shot 2. Even my arm hurt for less time, even though it hurt more initially. My husband pretty much slept away 36 hours, except for taking my daughter to school on Wednesday morning. My dad got his shot a few hours after us, and he said he got feverish and chills and still feels terrible. My husband also planned ahead and took yesterday off, my dad has still been going to work.
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@blotsfan clearly should have held out on his vax. 
buffalonews.com
Free beer offer results in more vaccinations than all Erie County first-dose clinics last week
"It's been a success," said County Executive Mark Poloncarz. "We figured it would be pretty good, but now we're seeing the results."
Feels better now, hopefully the flu symptoms don't hit me too harshly.
"Mmm. Donuts." - Homer Simpson
4th shot in 6 months.
Followed by a specialized Omikron side-shot 3 months after that.
Oops.
arstechnica.com
Y’know how there’s that scene in Spirits Within where President Snow tells Hades not to fire the giant space laser into the pit full of angry ghosts, but he goes and does it anyway and almost destroys the world? This kinda feels a bit like that.
—Patrick
Anti-viral drug backfires: COVID drug linked to viral mutations that spread
Merck’s small-molecule molnupiravir linked to mutated viruses that spread in people.
arstechnica.com
—Patrick