Quarantine Activities

[Hair Warrior]

Update: the CHYCAPs did not like us calling them CHYCAPs so they are trying to become CHYCOMs again:

China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group - Report - ChinaPulse.com - China News, Data, Media Intelligence and Insights

Reports from China indicate that the Chinese government may be working on a plan to nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and the Ant Group. China's ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has gone further ahead with the antitrust investigation into e-commerce giant Alibaba. "Based on tip-offs received by...

www.chinapulse.com

 

[SlickAg]

Update: the CHYCAPs did not like us calling them CHYCAPs so they are trying to become CHYCOMs again:

China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group - Report - ChinaPulse.com - China News, Data, Media Intelligence and Insights

Reports from China indicate that the Chinese government may be working on a plan to nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and the Ant Group. China's ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has gone further ahead with the antitrust investigation into e-commerce giant Alibaba. "Based on tip-offs received by...

www.chinapulse.com

So. Much. Capitalism.

Jack Ma’s absence is stirring uneasy memories of a series of disappeared Chinese tycoons

Disappearing doesn't only happen to dissidents in China.

www.google.com

 

[Gatordev]

News that's fit to print discussion moved here:

News thread, but not about quarantine news

So. Much. Capitalism. https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/1952803/jack-mas-absence-stirs-memories-of-disappeared-chinese-tycoons/amp/ I wonder if we could “disappear” a few social media moguls here in the US?

www.airwarriors.com

 

[Brett327]

Today, my quarantine activities included getting vaccinated against COVID.
Side effects: profound sense of awe and appreciation for the scientists who worked so hard to make this possible.

 

[nittany03]

Today, my quarantine activities included getting vaccinated against COVID.
Side effects: profound sense of awe and appreciation for the scientists who worked so hard to make this possible.

Nice. I'm pretty much resigned that as a 40-year-old SELRES in dwell, I'm on like Tier 4 of 4 based on what I'm hearing about priorities.

 

[taxi1]

Today, my quarantine activities included getting vaccinated against COVID.
Side effects: profound sense of awe and appreciation for the scientists who worked so hard to make this possible.

Over 65 and still flying...damn

 

[Brett327]

Over 65 and still flying...damn

I just turned 50, but the vaccine is becoming available to AD folks in lots of areas now.

 

[taxi1]

Good for you...but not the family, right? Awkward at the dinner table... ?

Someone should do a comic of Grandpa Pettibone getting a shot

 

[picklesuit]

Same dynamic in my family. I got both shots already (nice to be Tier 2), kids are too young, wife is too healthy (and young), so it’s just me. In the time between my first and second round, my cousin and her husband contracted COVID, and her husband died the day before I got the second.

I have already seen/been on the wrong end of hate/discontent because, by virtue of my job, I got the vaccine before poor old grandma and the immunosuppressed types.

My guess is it will get worse as a whole as the general public has to deal with the realities of scarcity and logistics, and they get their turn to wait in long lines or be disappointed they didn’t get their shot.
I’m sure we will get a story out of Detroit or Baltimore of someone getting shot over their place in line/access to the shot.

Hopefully it’s all over and better by this time next year, and we are back to “normal.”

Not holding my breath.

 

[Brett327]

Good for you...but not the family, right? Awkward at the dinner table... ?

Someone should do a comic of Grandpa Pettibone getting a shot

I am unmarried... by design. I'm told that dependents will be eligible once the bulk of the AD folks are vaccinated.

 

[Gatordev]

A couple of the local hospitals were allowing employees to bring in a family member to get the vaccine. There is no definition of what a family member is, apparently intentionally. I'm not sure if it's still going on since the governor opened up vaccines to those over 65.

I'm supposed to get dose #2 next week when I get off work (to be legal). My wife had her second one already and didn't feel great afterwards. My first one gave me a hangover the next day, so expecting the same thing the second time around.

 

[wink]

My son is 1B due to job. Shortly after he got his shot they had run out of 1B customers for the day. They had a vial opened and not fully used. They expire quickly, so they were talking about going out and just asking folks on the street if they wanted the shot, rather than have it expire and be wasted.

 

[Pags]

My son is 1B due to job. Shortly after he got his shot they had run out of 1B customers for the day. They had a vial opened and not fully used. They expire quickly, so they were talking about going out and just asking folks on the street if they wanted the shot, rather than have it expire and be wasted.

Have heard several stories like this. Personally I think it's the right thing to do. Better to stick it in someone than throw it out. Might raise some questions in 28days but whatevs.

 

[Jim123]

Agreed. I've heard anecdotes of no-shows at various sites- not in a doom and gloom sense and probably not in enormous numbers either. It seems like it's the Pfizer/BioNTech one that has a window of about five hours, between when they thaw a batch of super freeze and mix it with saline until it needs to get stuck in somebody's arm or it goes bad. Or maybe that's the Moderna one or maybe it's both of them.

Anecdotes do not necessarily make data but at this point there's no sense throwing away vaccine. I bet some of the better run localities will soon have a standby list- get your number in line just like you do online questionnaire for any other health care these days, then if the healthcare provider has let's say fifty no-shows then you and a hundred people get a robotext that says can you be there in an hour. 28 days later (I see what you did there, @Pags ) you're a priority to get the followup shot. Or something like that.

 

[Gatordev]

It's been common at the two major hospitals here. My wife even cashed in on it when she was trying to get her second dose the day she was working instead of having to drive in the next day (the day she was supposed to get it). She went down at the end of the day asking if there was extra. She was told they don't do that....waited a few minutes, and then there was extra and told she could get a shot.

I think they started doing wait lists as well. It wasn't uncommon for the first doses for the units to get calls asking if people could come down and get shots with what was left over.