Getting the vaccine??

The mood here is vaccine priorities change every week, what a cluster@#$# it all is. Probably should have always done it by age as they are now more settling on (only the age windows are too big and there isn't enough vaccine).

At night I go to bed wanting to scream about when I'll ever get my life back, sinking into despair. Oh and PS they have decided to open more things up despite having ZERO ICU capacity.

But my mom will get one soon but I still can't visit due to other vulnerable people. Supposedly it will take until June just to vaccinate the over 65 ... (that could change if the Fed gov provides more vaccine supply, it's all on them). Oh maybe I'll get a vaccine 12th of Nevuary. I don't say it's unfair, although I know younger people with preexisting conditions and they aren't getting a vaccine and that's very very scary with so much virus. But it's fair to vaccinate many other people before me, I just realize there isn't much hope of anything changing before summer or maybe 2022.

Rich people are trying to cut the line:

https://news.yahoo.com/rich-people-t...182500683.html

Winter weather, which you would think northern states would have anticipated, is wreaking havoc on vaccinations. My parents are still too discouraged to attempt to get shots and don't want to go out now due to the snow even if they could get a slot. Vermont is planning for roving EMTs to visit homebound seniors but my state can't even get a hotline set up. I wish the Feds or the locals rather than the decidedly unfabulous Charlie Baker Boy were in charge of vaccinations in my state.

I don't know why blue states elect Republican governors, what's up with that. If they had a Dem governor Elizabeth Warren might have had a shot at treasury, instead we have people selling 800k speeches.

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Originally Posted by bae

I'm quite curious about the basis for his skepticism.

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DH informed me this week he wouldn't be getting the vaccine right away. He has concerns about RNA vaccines, whatever that means.

I will get it because I believe it is more dangerous for me NOT to get it.

When I asked DH how he expects me to interact with the world with me vaccinated and him not vaccinated he said that I need to continue to mask up and social distance. Well that’s kind of what everyone’s doing anyway so I don’t see a real problem with this. Yet anyway.

My first planned social interaction is a flower show school in June for two days. The organizers say they have a very large place where everyone can sit in the classroom distant from each other. we shall see.

Sounds like all the variants popping up will add to the fray. Booster shots I guess. All one big cluster truck.

"Concerned about RNA vaccines" sounds like he's been infected by QAnon to me. :laff: You might ask him to explain further.

ETA: https://www.bbc.com/news/54893437

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Originally Posted by JaneV2.0

"Concerned about RNA vaccines" sounds like he's been infected by QAnon to me. :laff: You might ask him to explain further.

ETA: https://www.bbc.com/news/54893437

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Imdont know if that is it. He scoffs at GMO fears, but who knows.

MRNA vaccines are brand new. No one knows any long term effects of these yet, the data just not exist yet. The current ones on the market have your body make the spike protein. I can't find any information as to how this piece of RNA knows when to STOP doing this. As someone who has had adverse reactions to a vaccine, this concerns me. I am not a Q anon believer, just someone a little skeptical about a rushed medicine with no long term data.

I don’t think of this vaccine as rushed. Moderna and others have been working on the basics for mRNA vaccines for years (that’s even why moderna is named moderna, it’s the whole reason for the company’a existence) and the covid vaccine was made as soon as they had the genetic sequence for covid, way back a year ago.