Congratulations to all who have gotten at least one vaccination!
Anyone still waiting for the vaccine?
If you need to find a place to get the COVID vaccine, just text your zipcode to 438829. You’ll get locations near you where you can get vaccinated! Text to VACUNA (822862) for Spanish. (lifted from a tweet by Ron Klein, who should know what he is talking about.)
Or go to https://www.vaccines.gov
For Canadian readers, if you’re looking for a shot, vaccinehunters.ca is doing incredible work to highlight locations with available appointments.
Tell me which stickers you want, so I can sticker you!
ruemara’s kitties, Odoroki and Himesama:
Dr. Fauci and Nancy Smash:
Samwise, Baby Champ and Henry:
Rosie & Thurston, Lily, Tikka:
Balloons!
Green balloons!
Kamala and Joe!
One and done for Johnson & Johnson:
Now with Dolly, Penelope and ducklings!
Katalin Kariko who was laughed at her entire career for researching mRNA, and Kizzmekia Corbett. Two scientists who happen to be women, and saved our lives!
Stickers by MazeDancer!
Are any of you still unable to get an appointment? Find A Shot
If you are still waiting for access to the vaccine, these stickers may be for you!
Another Scott
3.5 hours into Pfizer #2. Two green balloons, please!
Thanks for doing this. It’s fun. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Ken
Appointment 2 is next week.
namekarB
Looking in California?
https://www.vaccinateca.com/
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
I’m two weeks out from Pfizer #2 on Monday! Feels really good.
WaterGirl
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?: Yay! You deserve a sticker. If you want one, let me know which one.
SiubhanDuinne
I’m getting Pfizer #2 this Thursday, and I already know which sticker I want [cough*Tikka*cough] once I’m done.
West of the Rockies
@Another Scott:
It IS fun, I quite agree. I always dig your comments, Another Scott, including your cheerful Cheers.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: Would you like a Tikka a little bit early, or someone else to tide you over.
Did you see how many stickers I gave you for your first shot? :-) If your answer is “a ridiculous amount”, you would be correct!
dmsilev
Monthly polling on vaccine attitudes
Lots and lots of detail if you want to know why people aren’t getting the shots.
zhena gogolia
Well, watch out, everybody, when all your friends get vaccinated they start having dinner parties. We’re about to leave for our third one this week. It settles down after this, I hope.
For one thing, I am NOT ready to have guests. The house has become Tobacco Road over the course of the pandemic, and it wasn’t too great to begin with.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: My friends are not there yet, and neither am I.
Mike S
As of noon pdt today I am fully cooked and ready for my Red O braised beef rib enchiladas at the restaurant. Rick Bayliss knows enchiladas. Margaritas too.
Rosie woof woof please.
Xantar
Got my second Moderna shot on Tuesday! I’ll take a surprise sticker.
(I couldn’t decide. ~WG)
HalfAssedHomesteader
Got #1 on Thursday. Completing the circle on 6/3. Held off only because I wanted to avoid lines and crowds.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@zhena gogolia:
Heh. I woke up this morning vowing to get my house in enough shape so that somebody dropping by wouldn’t think I belong on “Hoarders”. I have done very little to make this happen.
I’m half-dreading an invitation from my neighbors who like to have people over, even though I like them. And someone might want to have a neighborhood potluck. God forbid.
I did meet some people for dinner outside last night– my first draft beer in fourteen months!
MagdaInBlack
My 2nd Moderna is the 20th. I’d like to reserve a Tikka to go with my Baby Champ. ?
randy khan
Shot #2 tomorrow. 16-1/2 hours away.
MagdaInBlack
@zhena gogolia: I like to think of it as ” it looks a wee bit lived in.” ?
M31
I’m just into the ‘fully immunized’ state and it feels so odd to actually go shopping when I feel like it.
gimme a Steve please
WaterGirl
@Mike S: Is this the one you wanted? Because Rosie is with Thurston, and that don’t say Woof Woof.
If guessed wrong, let me know.
Matt Smith
Got my second Moderna yesterday. Feeling pretty good today. I’ll take a VP sticker, please and thank you!
WaterGirl
@HalfAssedHomesteader: What stickers would you like?
WaterGirl
@MagdaInBlack: One Tikka, reserved just for you!
WaterGirl
@randy khan: Come back for a sticker tomorrow so we can celebrate with you.
MagdaInBlack
@WaterGirl: ?❤️?
rikyrah
@Another Scott:
Yeah??
rikyrah
@West of the Rockies:
I love his signature too?
rikyrah
@WaterGirl:
I am not ready.
Talk to me in September
Ken
As Randall Munroe has noted, these claims run quite a gamut. Be objective: Are you closer to this end of the spectrum, or this one?
Taken4Granite
Got Moderna #2 yesterday. Side effects: I’ve been pretty tired today and didn’t sleep well last night what with aches and pains, but the sore arm actually wasn’t as bad as with the first dose.
I’ll take Odoroki for this one.
Jacqueline Squid Onassis
We got the 2nd Moderna on Thursday. After ~36 hours of flu-like symptoms, I’m finally beginning to feel human again.
Rosie & Thurston for me, please.
Princess Leia
Was 2 weeks out last Wednesday and was able to visit face to face with a good friend (also fully vaccinated) on Thursday. Surreal and wonderful!!! Nancy Smash for me!!
KM in NS
Mr. NS had his first Pfizer dose a couple of weeks ago. Mine is scheduled for May 14!!
Kamala for him and ducks for me. ??
J R in WV
@dmsilev:
Lose your job?
Not allowed into a grocery store? A theater? a bar, any bar?
I bet after a few weeks of that, everyone will break down and get one…the question is can we bear down on the asses like that. I hope so.
Joy in FL
I had my 2nd Moderna shot about 11:30 on Thursday. Thursday afternoon, I felt exhausted. Friday I watched Harry Potter movies and napped. It was so nice to be able to stay home and just rest and know that in two weeks, I can feel safe enough going to the grocery and a few other places. Today the shoulder is still a little sore, but I definitely feel ok.
It is pleasantly hard to decide which sticker to ask for. All our animals are so adorable, and the humans are pretty cool, too.
I asked for Baby Champ for my first shot, but I have lost where I downloaded that sticker. Could you give me Tikka and another Baby Champ? And if it’s ok, would you also include the two scientists who helped save our lives?
Thanks : )
dmsilev
@J R in WV: If you read through the (long) full report, the great majority of the ‘hard no’ people claim that nothing will convince them. The ‘soft no’ (‘only if forced’) group are much more open to being swayed by, for instance, vaccination requirements for concerts and other large events. How hard the hard nos actually are is open to question; so far, it’s just hypothetical.
O. Felix Culpa
I hit the two-week out, fully vaccinated mark this past Thursday (Team Moderna). Nancy Smash please.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@dmsilev:
I guess they’ll have free pizza for the second shot
Argiope
I worked my last 7 hour full shift as a volunteer vaccinator with Medical Reserve Corps today. They are winding us volunteers down here in NE Ohio as demand slows. We’ve found and vaccinated almost all the easy and enthusiastic folks–next comes the slow slog to get to people where they live and work in smaller numbers. Lots of J&J today, and a lot of second shot Modernas. Just a few Moderna #1s. 2 more half day clinics for me and then I’m done. I’ll miss this gig; it’s been rewarding to be part of history as it unfolds.
dmsilev
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Seems logical.
PsiFighter37
Had second shot a week and a half ago. Felt absolutely awful after shot #2 – hadn’t been knocked on my ass like that for a while – but was all good the next day. I feel good about where NY is, but I have no idea how the rest of this will play out given that the GOP has become the party of anti-vaxxers, along with the rest of their insanity.
In better news, we are officially in contract on the condo we are purchasing. Board package due in a couple weeks, as well as finalizing details on the mortgage. Next stop – looking at renovation options for the kitchen and bathrooms (all require some updating), and contemplating getting a car(!) (the place we are buying comes with a parking spot, of all things).
dexwood
Mrs. dexwood reached the two weeks mark Thursday after her second Pfizer shot. We celebrated by spending some money today at three local businesses we like, but have not visited since early February, 2020. One was a hat shop in Old Town to pick up new Summer hats, but we had to pass within 100 feet of a Pro-Trump, anti-vax. anti-mask rally at the edge of a parking lot. Assholes one and all. Fuck ’em, couldn’t ruin our good moods. The second place we visited was an Asian grocery store where we picked up our favorite egg roll wraps and quite a few other items. Our final stop was La Cumbre, a great brew pub where one of our favorite servers brought our usual selections to the patio table shortly after we sat down. We didn’t need to order, he remembered. We were greeted warmly everywhere and heard many comments about how weird it is to do normal things.
WaterGirl
@Argiope: Seems like you should get some stickers just for that! What would you like?
WaterGirl
@PsiFighter37: Sounds like it’s getting real. Congratulations!
WaterGirl
@dexwood:
I actually teared up when I read that. He was probably as glad to see you as you were to see him. Welcome home.
dexwood
@WaterGirl: That’s what it felt like. Welcome home. We were so happy to see him and to learn he became a dad in January.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Got Pfizer #2 this morning! Our household is done.
What a choice to make though… Nancy Pelosi or Prof. Kariko. Can I have both? (He asked greedily)
PsiFighter37
@WaterGirl: Yep…contract deposit is down. So we gotta go through or we are going to be out of a lotta money! But I am looking forward to it. Hoping this is the last time (or second to last time) we will have to move locations within Manhattan.
rikyrah
@J R in WV:
Not all these refusers are independently wealthy. If the jobs begin requiring vaccination, they will get it.
I am convinced of that
WaterGirl
@dexwood: Nice!
WaterGirl
@PsiFighter37: Maybe a Celebrating Jackals post, with pictures, is in order once you guys get moved in?
edit: How old is your little one? My parents moved us across the street when I was two years old, and my dad said that every night at bedtime – for an entire month – I would say “Daddy, I want to go home.”
I cried when he told me that.
PsiFighter37
@WaterGirl: For sure! Might need to be delayed a little bit, since we are going to get some work done before we move in (and will continue afterwards). Daughter will be nearly 2 years old when we move, so maybe that will happen as well. But while I love where we are now, the place where we are moving to is going to be ‘home’ to her when she gets older. I think it’s likely we are staying here until she is a teenager, if not longer.
Argiope
@WaterGirl: ooooh, the scientists or Dolly would be great! Thanks!
Citizen_X
Got my Pfizer #2. Gimme a Steve 2 doses sticker, please.
hrprogressive
Happy Weekend, Juicers.
I officially got my 2nd #TeamPfizer shot last Saturday. I am 1 week away from “Fully Vaccinated” given current knowledge and guidelines.
I hydrated a lot during the day on Saturday because I had heard anecdotally this helped to mitigate any issues with the second shot.
Sunday the 2nd was much like my first one – persistent headache and sore arm – except instead of just a two hour nap, I basically drifted in and out of napping throughout the day.
I don’t think I ever became feverish, never had any chills, etc. I legitimately think my headache was just as much from caffeine withdrawal as it was the shot itself so YMMV.
But I am very glad to have had a great community vax site, I am glad I got my shot of choice, and although I am not exactly rushing out next week to mingle maskless with other cohorts…
I am glad to have the protection, I urge everyone else to do it, and as the Doctors of Twitter like to say – “The best vaccine is the one you can get right now”
I don’t necessarily need another sticker for this update, but if you feel compelled to append…surprise me! :)
WaterGirl
@PsiFighter37: Just put something together and let me know when it’s time. Some “before and after” shots might be fun re: the remodel of the kitchen, etc.
Like I said, I was 2 when we moved. A couple of decades ago I remodeled my kitchen. I had this picture in my head of what I wanted:
Three sets of glass-front cabinets over the sink (2 doors in each set). The contractor tried to talk me out of it, but I really wanted them. (I have some nice dishes and glasses, etc, so it doesn’t look junky.)
Anyway, the next summer my older sister came to visit, took one look at the glass-front cabinets and said “we had cabinets just like that in the first apartment we lived in, before we moved to where I grew up.
Somewhere in my brain, that memory of those cabinets must have been there. I thought that was cool.
ThresherK
I got my second Pfizer shot this week. My wife’s already a few weeks past hers.
WaterGirl
@ThresherK: What stickers would you like?
randy khan
@WaterGirl:
You can be sure I will.
wanderingoutlaw
I got my second Moderna shot earlier this week. Only had one day of fever and lethargy this time (which is why I missed the “I Got the Shot! post during the week).
I’ll take a Steve 2-doses sticker
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
I’m happy for any and all of the stickers, whenever you care to assign them! Honestly never thought there would be a time in my life when I actively looked forward to getting a shot.
(A little encouragement while you wait! ~WG)
randy khan
Pfizer #2 is done. I arrived about 10 minutes early and as a result had my shot before the appointment was scheduled. (The same thing happened for shot #1.) Since my wife had Moderna, we now get to compare side effects, although in her case the answer was that she had none.
Fun tidbit: I went to a drive-through vaccine site (just like the first shot), and woman in front of me had her dog in her car. When she got out to get the shot, her dog moved to the driver’s seat, as if to drive her home after her ordeal.
I would like His Steveness for my sticker, please.
WaterGirl
@randy khan: I laughed out loud about the dog.
WaterGirl
There is a more current I Got the Shot! thread in the sidebar.