Our antipodean and central European friends are slow getting going, so it would not surprise me if the majority of them were still not vaccinated.

i'm curious too
add a poll

andyman wrote: Sat Aug 07, 2021 7:11 am Got both the second I could.

Same.
Laurel Bristow has been a reliable, human, and sensible source of info on covid and the vaccines for me. Especially if you need to convince some people who'd still listen.

sparky wrote: Sat Aug 07, 2021 6:46 am Full Moderna, written while firing imaginary six-shooters in the air.

Now I'm wondering which Looney Tunes / Cartoon Characters are vaxxed and which are Nitwits.

Bugs Bunny - Vaxxed
Daffy Duck - probably not (or maybe he is but won't admit it)
Yosemite Sam - no

Popeye - no

Mickey Mouse - probably, do you know how many kids he has to hug every day in Orlando?

Oh, and to answer the question, yes, I signed up as soon as I could and had my second shot at the end of April.

Wife and I got our first shots when our bandmate was running a vaccine event for his school district and they couldn't get enough people employed by the district to get shots. This was ~2 weeks before it was opened up to all adults in WA, so we jumped the line a bit, but he was literally asking if we knew anyone else who could drive there that evening and get a shot.

Glad to be in one of the most vaccinated counties/cities in the country.

I live in Florida, where it's safe to say things aren't going well where the battle against Covid-19 is concerned. Got vaxxed in the spring, and plan to get a booster in the fall, but it now seems iffy going to a writer's conference upstate in a couple of months. Typically for me the summer months here are marked by an avoidance of spending too much time outdoors during the day, as it can be uncomfortably hot and humid then and I take pills for things (mood-related) that don't jibe well with prolonged exposure to the mid-day sun. But things usually start to ease up as hurricane season draws to a close and from about midway through the MLB post-season to maybe the end of March, weather-wise, it's often close to ideal here and I tend to enjoy it. Had a six-week dog and house sitting stint earlier this year, while my folks got their ducks in a row to sell their cottage in WI; got paid for it and figured I'd bide my time with reading and movie watching and whatnot during peak heatness and that the pandemic situation would ease up as we moved to fall and more people got vaccinated and were freer to mingle more. Instead, now it seems as if things are going in the opposite direction, with record infections and hospitalizations, including those of children. Ron DeathSantis's bungling of the whole matter has more than a little to do with this, as does mixed messaging from other GOP politicians and news outlets, and the general sowing of mistrust toward vaccines that began many years ago. The other day I read about the near inevitability of vaccine-resistant Covid-19 strains emerging before the end of winter. Am not trying to sound gloomy here, let's hope that's just speculation, but unfortunately 2021 probably won't be the last we see of the virus or ones like it.

Owen wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 7:40 pm My mother works in a major Chicagoland Pharmacy and 3 of the 5 lead Pharmacists are not and do not want to and about half of their techs are not. The head pharmacist literally knows nothing, and my Mom has to fill her in on basics. One of these unvaxxed people just went to Disneyworld and then came back and went straight to Lollapalooza. These are health professionals with degrees and shit, and this is what we are dealing with.

I know a handful of docs (one of them an actual factual virologist) and nurses and none of them are interested. This (imo) is telling.

I'm currently unjabbed and quietly reticent to do so. I haven't heard a clear and convincing reason why anyone under the age of 50 w/out underlying health conditions (esp linked to respiratory issues) would seriously benefit. My understanding is that the vaccine minimises your personal risk of the virus causing you serious problems (but being young and healthy-ish does that too), but has a limited effect on reducing transmission rates (you'll be less likely to be coughing and spreading the virus, but if you have a mild or asymptomatic case then it makes little difference). So you can have both jabs, catch the virus and spread it unknowingly. If you want to minimise the risk the virus poses to you, cool. But that's as far as it goes.

I suspect the fact I worked all the way through last year in front line outreach position and didn't see anybody even mildly effected by the virus has made me somewhat less fearful - if I had lost loved ones or had elderly relatives I'd be more suggestable. I suspect when our weak, risk adverse and effeminate ruling class mandate vaccine passports then I’ll eventually cave in because I don’t have a principled opposition to not getting it. But it seems a matter of personal choice - not a matter social responsibility - if you should get it or not.

Double pfizer’d, and my 30 weeks pregnant wife just had her first dose too. She was understandably unsure about getting it but having read extensively about the effect of the vaccine on neonates (zero adverse effects on growth and cognitive development) and the risk of covid to third trimester pregnant women it was a no-brainer.

M.H. - I’ve been in several ICU wards with work in the last year or so. Covid might not hit everyone hard, but when it does it’s devastating. My brother’s bandmade, a paramedic, died from it. Get vaxxed.

I caught Covid in November of 2020. It wasn’t fun. I’m a youngish healthy person, no underlying conditions, and Covid gave me a pulmonary embolism in my right lung. Went to the ER. Spent 4 months on bloodthinners. Got the jab as soon as I was able to in 2021.

Double Pfizered. I have a sibling who is down the rabbit hole with it all, and it's beyond maddening.