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Are You ready to get the vaccine?
By: MartinSR Date: December 25, 2020, 3:06 pm
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It's probably one of the hottest topics during the last weeks.
There's a lot of conspiracy theories, some of them full of
absurd and pseudoscience, while the others just being the
manifestation of unknown. I have no time to check all the
theories, but I had to decide for myself. We all have to...
sooner or later...
The questions are:
1) Is it possible to get the vaccine where you are?
2) Have you already decide? Are you already on the vaccination
list?
3) Are you already vaccinated? If so... how did your body
tolerate it? And do you feel safer now?
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Re: Are You ready to get the vaccine?
By: MartinSR Date: December 25, 2020, 3:16 pm
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And my own replies are:
1) The vaccinations hasn't started yet in my country. Probably
they start in a few days.
2) I have subscribed for the vaccination. I had this opportunity
in my working place. Most of my colleagues with university
education level decided to subscribe (though some of them
hesitate). My work colleagues with high school education only,
in majority hasn't yet decided.
3) I hope to be vaccinated in January. I hope there will be no
serious side effects (I got vaccine for flu and B hepatitis, and
during my childhood all recomended vaccines - nothing bad
happened). I will write here how will I feel this time. My only
concern is that the vaccine may not be very effective, because
of the virus mutation. Anyway it's worth trying ... Next Sunday
we will go to the funeral of my wife's friend - 48y.o. doctor
who died of covid-19...
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Re: Are You ready to get the vaccine?
By: Nikola Date: December 26, 2020, 4:08 am
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The supply of vaccine arrived yesterday so it's just starting
here.
1. I think the official start is tomorrow. There is a strict
order in which people will be vaccinated. People over 65 or
people suffering from certain diseases + healthcare
professionals, then staff in care homes and similar facilities,
the government, emergency services, the army and staff in other
essential services... and then regular mortals. Everyone should
be able to get it at some point.
2. I'm going to get vaccinated but I haven't taken any steps yet
because there are so many people who need to get it first.
3. No but I can let you know how my parents are finding it once
they've had it.
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Re: Are You ready to get the vaccine?
By: Aliph Date: December 27, 2020, 5:46 am
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Hi Marin and Nikola,
Indeed it is a hot topic. Where I am living the vaccination
hasn’t begun yet and one cannot subscribe.
I stopped discussing the matter with people, it’s worse than
talking about politics.
Among my older friends and family (+65), the most eager to get
vaccinated are those who live by themselves (either divorced or
widowed) and are suffering more from loneliness due to the
social distancing.
Here, people over 75 will come first, then medical staff in the
hospitals and homes for the elderly, then other +65 and so on.
I will get vaccinated as soon as I will be eligible for it, but
I don’t know when it will be possible.
My husband hasn’t made up his mind yet.
I am vaccinated against (almost ) everything: seasonal flue,
hepatitis B, tuberculosis, rabies, ticks. since I used to travel
a lot to remote places, I never had any allergies.
A friend of us, a priest, said that, since a month, he has
everyday one or two funeral services. He is exhausted and sad.
Now there is this frenzy about the new British variation of the
virus which is more contagious.
The experts say that the vaccines that were approved should
handle also this kind of virus.
Let’s hope so.
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Re: Are You ready to get the vaccine?
By: Aliph Date: December 27, 2020, 11:32 am
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In Italy it’s Vax Day!
They started to vaccinate hospital personnel. People are quite
euphoric especially in the Lombardia that was hit so strongly by
the pandemic.
HTML https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cronaca/2020/12/27/vax-day-vaccini-pronti-a-partire-da-niguarda_3a851b47-02fd-4744-b6bb-beb159293311.html
A politician from the Neapolitan region was strongly criticized
and accused of power abuse by others who think that medical
staff and very old people should have the priority.
Personally, I think it isn’t a bad thing if politicians get
vaccinated, it may help the anti-vaccine people to question
their own rigid ideas.
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Re: Are You ready to get the vaccine?
By: MartinSR Date: December 27, 2020, 11:37 am
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In Poland they started with healthcare professionals today. My
friend (doctor in Emergency dept. in Cracow) got her vaccine
today. She sent me a photo of her vaccination card (the second
dose after 3 weeks or so). I work in a hospital too (though in a
less important one, in smaller town and not on the 'front
line'), so I hope I'll get my vaccine soon (maybe next month).
All my family members want to get it... But they will have to
wait.
Besides... this funeral today... not old, strong, healthy woman
- doctor, who knew how to protect herself... this virus is
dangerous to everyone, not only to old and unhealthy people.
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Re: Are You ready to get the vaccine?
By: Aliph Date: December 27, 2020, 11:40 am
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I am sorry for your friend, Martin, it’s heartbreaking.
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Re: Are You ready to get the vaccine?
By: MartinSR Date: January 30, 2021, 4:20 am
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A little update...
The vaccination started, but it goes very slowly. Actually it
stopped around half of January for obvious reasons (the
shortage of vaccines everywhere in Europe).
I talked to my colleagues who already got one or two doses.
Normally they had a little pain both times. A colleague who got
the 2nd dose had severe flu-like symptoms for about 1 day after
this dose (especially night sweating).
I'm eligible for the early vaccination (as a healthcare
worker) though my vaccination has been cancelled twice, because
of the shortage of vaccines. So now I wait for another
appointment.
In Poland they started to give vaccines to people over 70. First
of all they started with people over 80 and now allowed people
over 70 to subscribe. But they are short of doses already. I
checked yesterday and the nearest vaccination points having free
appointment dates were more than 300km far from the place I live
in. My parents were happy to get an appointment in a town not
far from us... so they will hopefully get their vaccines by the
end of March.
People under 70, not belonging to higher risk groups have to
wait. They can subscribe to the waiting lists... but will they
get the vaccine this year... I doubt.
And what is the situation in your countries? Anything changed
during this month?
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Re: Are You ready to get the vaccine?
By: Susan Date: February 6, 2021, 10:45 pm
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I haven´t checked in here for a long time but in the process of
changing my email address decided to see if there was still
activity. I was delighted to see there is :)
I am fortunate to be considered a health care worker here and
got my 2nd dose of the Moderna vaccine last Wednesday. I felt
achey and tired the first two days, but now I feel normal. I
have been avoiding the gym and hope to get back to swimming in
about a week when my immunity should be up because this vaccine
reportedly has been 100% effective in preventing severe cases of
COVID so far, although obviously that could change with the new
strains. My husband is more social than I and has not been
practicing social distancing as much as I have and he will also
have to wait much longer to receive the vaccine. Actually my
husband has had three friends who come to our home regularly to
play Dungeons & Dragons with him and two of the three have been
tested and found they had the anti-bodies. Both apparently had
COVID mildly without being sure what they had. My husband
decided to get the anti-body test and he does not have the
anti-bodies so apparently has not had COVID.
Kansas is one of the states with the slowest distribution in the
U.S. I saw a map last week that we were at a little over 6%
vaccinated. Health care workers, persons living in nursing
homes, and persons considered essential to the distribution of
the vaccine were the first to be eligible. When I was getting
my second dose, people 80 years and over were also getting their
first dose.
The Baselang service that I use for Spanish lessons now has
expanded to have teachers from many of the South and Central
American countries. It is sad to me that many countries are
having a lot more difficulty acquiring and distributing the
vaccine and many of my teachers will probably be waiting quite
awhile for vaccine. I read that many of the poor countries
probably won´t have people vaccinated until 2022. I hope that
is not true.
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Re: Are You ready to get the vaccine?
By: Nikola Date: February 7, 2021, 4:55 pm
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Great to see you, Susan!
Glad you've been able to get your two doses. Swimming pools and
gyms are still closed here and the vaccination is going very
slowly. They have given a lot fewer doses than they had
originally planned. The situation is probably similar to Poland.
So far, 2.38% of the population have received at least one dose,
0.85% have received two. Among those are some who jumped the
queue, so to speak. It's quite demoralising for all the older
people who are still waiting.
The only person I know who has been vaccinated is our family
friend who is a doctor. My parents and their friends who are
around 70 have not been asked to book a slot yet. Teachers are
meant to be next once the 65+ group has been vaccinated,
whenever that may be.
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