Most people I deal with day-to-day are under 60 and have not yet had their first dose. Tracker shows 24% of the US population has had at least one dose.
Ohio's fully opening up vaccine availability to anyone 16+ starting on the 29th. I figured it would be until at least end of April before I fell into an approved group, so happy to see it's coming earlier than expected. The issue is still going to be finding an actual appointment when I am eligible though.
Cool I’ll look into getting signed up. My mom has had both of hers. Come on concert season! The Reds are opening up 20% capacity at the stadium. In a normal year they’d kill their own mother to see that during the season. Pent up demand they’ll probably sell that out.
The only people I know who haven’t gotten at least one are all younger — and there’s just a few of them, as I mostly know teachers who are eligible and have gotten them — or a small handful of covid deniers who swear this is a hoax. I’ve been told, to my face, that I’m making up my own experiences in order to “further the liberal left agenda” and other variances of the same phrase. I honestly hope those people would get covid themselves and shut the fuck up. In generally though, as you said anecdotally, the vast majority of people I know have gotten at least the first shot. I’m actually incredibly surprised how quickly this has happened, and how little social resistance there has been.
Oh I encountered quite a bit of judgmental comments and people who feel I shouldn’t have been able to get it when I did. Other people who seem to just know so much about the health of other people just by assuming they seem too healthy to qualify for the 1B category. The 1B category is intentionally vague and the law prevents vaccine administrators from having access to your medical records for proof. It’s practically designed to be abused. Filtering by age range seems to be the best way to control people. As far as I’m concerned, if you were savvy enough to get your dose, good for you. The more shots given, the better.
On the one hand, I am way more able to mitigate my risk and limit my exposure than, say, a grocery store worker or someone in the food service industry. On the other hand, I think of my vaccine as the consolation prize for working at the intersection of healthcare and customer service through a year of pandemic with a population of patients that skews towards high maintenance, middle aged white ladies.
Conversely, maybe 30% of the people I know have been vaccinated, one dose or fully. It’s been a shit show here in New Jersey. I’ve been trying for a couple of months and finally scored an appointment by checking availability at midnight last night. I’m going to heed the advice and anecdotes you all shared, so thank you for that.
I also work in healthcare and feel totally justified in my getting vaccinated. I’ve also been a model fucking citizen of proper pandemic behavior with respect to not having social functions, barely seeing any friends and family, avoiding restaurants and always wearing a mask and keeping distant when I do have to go out for something. There’s piles of dipshits out here crowding bars, having massive house parties, not wearing masks, and other stupidity. I don’t care if they live or die. I want me and my close ones to be safe. I made it my business to search out every opportunity there is for a vaccine sign up and got all my relatives and close friends signed up somewhere.
Our entire small town(12k pop) has been going through an outbreak since christmas. Our entire town has skipped the age requirement, everyone gets one if they want. My appointment is for friday at 4.50.
I am fascinated by the local variability that colors the successful vs. shit show anecdotal evidence. It is very, very easy to schedule an appointment right now where I am in Georgia, but Georgia only one-dosed at about 16%. NJ shows about 24%. Because the roll out and vaccine locations have been escalated so well where I am, I am assuming the Georgia percentage is low because people just don't want to or aren't hurrying to do so. Maybe they're assuming they're not eligible yet, or maybe we've got so many rural areas. https://www.npr.org/sections/health...d-19-vaccination-campaign-going-in-your-state
Waiting to get mine now, and el hubs is scheduled for this afternoon for the Moderna vaccine. Apparently since this clinic is a federally funded sliding scale clinic they do not have to abide by state group rollout guidelines.
We're getting ours at the Veterans Affairs hospital. The woman that made our appointment said that they were opening up vaccine availability to all adults. I figured they had a bunch of doses and not enough older veterans that would willingly take it. The VA's website still says "vaccine available for eligible veterans".
You never really know the reason why a facility opens up eligibility. The amount of doses being distributed is somewhat unknown. For instance, where I work, we’ve given out almost 400k doses so far. But no one even realized my hospital had so much in stock while the city had their own unknown quantity and you basically had to sell a kidney to get an appointment. People getting easy quick appointments at the hospital were the source of jealousy of much of the population wondering how they were supposed to get a vaccine.
I camped on the CVS app just before midnight and got my appointments (Moderna, scheduled both doses). I have an antagonistic relationship with CVS - I’ve posted here about how they’ve given me wrong medication twice. Hopefully the vaccine isn’t a placebo. I’m eligible due to asthma. Didn’t have it as a kid, but as I got older bronchitis became an annual thing, I had ammonia 5 years ago and bang - diagnosed with asthma. Our little enclave here in western New Jersey was relatively untouched until the first week of January of this year when it swept through with a vengeance. Some cases were mild, some harsh without hospitalization, but one guy is still fighting it two months later and another has developed serious heart complications.
We just got the Pfizer shot. The woman in front of me, threw a giant fit, cussing out the registration lady. I wondered if she was going to listen to any of their pleas to get out of line and talk with someone that can actually solve the issue. If you ask me, I think it was an obvious overreaction to being called out for an obvious lie. She didn't have an appointment, when they told her that, then came the fit saying she had just made it and someone else fucked up. After being pulled aside by the supervisor, she was given an appointment for today and just had to go to the back of the line.
I’m sad bad behavior like that was rewarded. The Husband got his first Moderna today. I wonder if it’ll kick him as hard as Pfizer did me, since we both had Covid.
My arm is pretty sore, especially when I lift it overhead. Right after receiving my jab I could feel the vaccine circulate in my wrist and hand and my eardrums felt a little pressure-y. I had a slight headache later that day. My husband had a really bad headache he basically had to nap off, and went through a period of a couple hours where he was just sweating his ass off. Plus arm soreness. I think dose #2 is going to knock him on his ass.
Dose 1 fucked me up but good. to be fair, I’d just had surgery and I had Covid at the end of December, but damn. My arm was sore, and it just made my whole body uncomfortable. I didn’t have a fever or anything I just felt overall tired and uncomfortable.