Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

From my experience and from what others have said, the effects won't kick in until the next day. And even then, you feel crummy, but you don't actually look sick. Unless body aches and chills really do a number on you.

 

I’m hoping to fake it if I have symptoms. I do have to say that my arm was really sore for about 4 days after the first shot.

 

'Basically In A New Pandemic,' Says Merkel, As Germany Extends Lockdown

These sorts of articles really get under my skin because they kind of get to the bad-faith question I typically revert to whenever COVID stuff makes me mad, which is:

"At what point is it not my fault government and/or the medical community cannot sufficiently fix this problem?"

Because as easy and convenient as it is to rip the Trump administration for its handling of this, there are few if any places on the planet that are anywhere near "normal," even the ones that supposedly did things "right."

 

The original coronavirus surge was very severe in the EU countries (and Great Britain), but they were able to contain it with much stricter lockdown policies than in the US. The EU and the US both pretty much disregarded any restrictions during the holiday season, and each suffered January surges as a result. But 1. The new mutations were a much bigger factor in the EU and 2. EU countries (not Great Britain, though) have fucked up their vaccination programs six ways from Sunday compared to the US, and nobody would call our programs perfect by any means. As a result, the January surge in Europe has just kept on truckin'.

 

PTO, as I understand it, is a finite resource ("You have 120 hours of PTO this year . . . ").

Our company is basically saying, "Get vaccinated, and put two extra hours on Kronos when you do."

Well, other than New Zealand and Mars, the former being only slightly less difficult to get to.

Oops. You said "on the planet." Cross off Mars.

 

Correct, I'm saying we don't have to take it when we're getting the vaccine. I'll still put down that I'm working 730-4 tomorrow but some of that on the clock time will be me at the Richmond Raceway getting jabbed.

 

My arm hurt for a good week after my second shot. It was almost like someone hit me with a stick and I had a bruise.

 

How have they fucked them up beyond simply not having sufficient stock of vaccine?

 

Kronos?

 

1. Limited stock of vaccine was mostly due to price haggling by the EU. 2. Many countries went for the AstraZenica vaccine then stopped program altogether as a result of the blood clot scare. 3. Very poor marketing/public education efforts about the vaccine. I can only speak to my daughter's experience in France, but employees and management at her wine exporting company as well as many of her early '30s-late '20s friends simply do not take the virus very seriously and are a very hard sell as to why they should take the vaccine. As of this morning, a little less than 10 percent of residents of her town, Bordeaux, have been vaccinated with even one shot, compared to 25 percent of Massachusetts residents who've had at least one.