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Torn Mind

Lifer
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I was thinking similarly, so when the first vaccine I got a chance to get was Moderna, I surprised myself how fast and efficiently I got to the site and rolled up my sleeve! It may have been less than an hour including going through the online sign-up process.

Scroll down at this page for a photo (the last one on the page) of the guy through the windshield of his car with the thumbs-up... that's me! ;)

I can now find solace that at least someone here is actually older than my mom. :D
 
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Red Squirrel

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Ended up getting a reaction from the vaccine. The day of, nothing, not even sore arm, the next day (yesterday) I had sore arm, but otherwise normal. Then in the evening before bed I started to get chills and feel dizzy, happened pretty fast. Given this was my first day shift in a few weeks at first I thought it was just because I was tired. Getting up at 6:00am is pretty rough on the body. But I felt it was more than just that. Went to bed since I was about to anyway, and this morning I still felt really dizzy and had chills so called in sick. If I was scheduled to work from home I probably would have been ok but I was in no position to drive and best not to go to work with any symptoms just in case anyway.

Feeling mostly ok now though.
 
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blankslate

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True, but I'm not sure if more stimmies is a good idea right now. We already have inflation and shortages of things like electronics and lumber right now.
given that prices dropped in 2020 sometime after covid 19 became a thing I would question where the measuring point is that persons raising concerns about inflation are using...
just saying.


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dullard

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sdifox

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Ended up getting a reaction from the vaccine. The day of, nothing, not even sore arm, the next day (yesterday) I had sore arm, but otherwise normal. Then in the evening before bed I started to get chills and feel dizzy, happened pretty fast. Given this was my first day shift in a few weeks at first I thought it was just because I was tired. Getting up at 6:00am is pretty rough on the body. But I felt it was more than just that. Went to bed since I was about to anyway, and this morning I still felt really dizzy and had chills so called in sick. If I was scheduled to work from home I probably would have been ok but I was in no position to drive and best not to go to work with any symptoms just in case anyway.

Feeling mostly ok now though.

The vaccine also works against souless gingers.
 
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ultimatebob

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given that prices dropped in 2020 sometime after covid 19 became a thing I would question where the measuring point is that persons raising concerns about inflation are using...
just saying.


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That inflation seems pretty damn real to me. My total food costs are up a solid 25% over the past 18 months, which is amazing considering that I'm working from home and eating out LESS now.
 
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Torn Mind

Lifer
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Sadly pretty sure I also qualify here lol .... it sneaks up on you! ;)
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On the contrary, young pup, she's so old she could be close in age as your mom. (72 years old). But due to China being a bad place at the time...having kids was delayed until 39 and she had immigrated out of there.

My (pretty bad and conniving) late daddy's first batch of kids, and one particular half-sis he favored, are 50+ years old. And he'd be 88 and a few months old if he were living.

No inheritance from dad whatsoever besides the genes, an SNES system, and some other minor things I forgot about. Might as well have been bastards, and my sis had it even worse. The rest is a genetic inheritance. So I'm like a dog with a modified predation complex. I understand how POSes do their shit and get away with it(in law and other matters), but I myself am not inclined to want to do the same things.
 
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That inflation seems pretty damn real to me. My total food costs are up a solid 25% over the past 18 months, which is amazing considering that I'm working from home and eating out LESS now.
My single data point says that food costs for me have remained flat.
 

Muse

Lifer
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It does matter. It may very well be more effective at 112 days. No one knows that exact data, but it has a better antibody response at 84 days than 21. https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladi...mes-higher-antibody-response/?sh=28869044a6a3
Yeah, so, like I said, no biggie. Advantage of getting 2nd in 21 days is you're better protected 5 weeks after first dose. Getting it later, you'll be better protected 140 days from first dose. No major thing, but best to be not too cavalier until a couple weeks after 2nd shot, either way. It's 80% efficacy vs. 94%.
 

Captante

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On the contrary, young pup, she's so old she could be close in age as your mom. (72 years old). But due to China being a bad place at the time...having kids was delayed until 39 and she had immigrated out of there.

My (pretty bad and conniving) late daddy's first batch of kids, and one particular half-sis he favored, are 50+ years old. And he'd be 88 and a few months old if he were living.

No inheritance from dad whatsoever besides the genes, an SNES system, and some other minor things I forgot about. Might as well have been bastards, and my sis had it even worse. The rest is a genetic inheritance. So I'm like a dog with a modified predation complex. I understand how POSes do their shit and get away with it(in law and other matters), but I myself am not inclined to want to do the same things.


FINALLY I'm younger then somebody around here other then Boomer!

;)
 
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zinfamous

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People definitely mass bought TVs with stimmy money (as opposed to say paying their Rent) albeit you would think that's only sporatic now. Plus anything related to crypto is a direct result of the stimulus. The laptop surge in demand is more due to the shutdowns than the stimulus.

the massive GPU crypto factories in the USSR and China and wherever are neutral with stimulus. It's the value of crypto which matters, and is not related to the pandemic or economic responses to that. This exact thing has happened periodically over the last 5 or 7 years, just as the value of crypto fluctuates and those currencies reach their various proof points, or whatever it's called.

Individuals in the US using their one stimulus check to buy...uh, one GPU, probably combines in total to less than a single mote of dust within the shortage.

nVIDIA has been shipping pallets of GPUS directly to "partners" building mining warehouses. That isn't stimulus related.
 
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nakedfrog

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My single data point says that food costs for me have remained flat.
Yeah, I keep an eye on the price of food items I buy regularly and haven't really noticed a change (beer, cheese, bread, meat, frozen pizza, and so forth). I buy fuck all for produce, so maybe ultimatebob is seeing the squeeze there?
 
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Yeah, I keep an eye on the price of food items I buy regularly and haven't really noticed a change (beer, cheese, bread, meat, frozen pizza, and so forth). I buy fuck all for produce, so maybe ultimatebob is seeing the squeeze there?
I mean, I've noticed a longer trend starting from when I worked as a cashier in a supermarket in the mid 2000s in high school - packages getting slightly smaller. Price increases that don't look like unit price increases. Definitely nothing big in the last 2 years though, when I think back to weekly costs
 

balloonshark

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That inflation seems pretty damn real to me. My total food costs are up a solid 25% over the past 18 months, which is amazing considering that I'm working from home and eating out LESS now.
This also happened when Obama raised SNAP (food stamps) benefits during the last economic crash. God damned grocery stores taking full advantage of that corporate welfare handout which was meant to assist folks who are struggling financially. At least that is my take on this subject.
 

njdevilsfan87

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Yet another did we have COVID in the family. My son was sick for about 2 weeks - nothing major but one of those usual toddler colds that last forever. Around day 10 of his cold my wife and I finally started getting symptoms. I guess after that long any sort of viral dose could get through natural and/or vaccinated immunity. Ours only lasted for 3 days and we were pretty uncomfortable for about one day, and had low grade fevers one night and my sinuses felt like they were burning while she had a cough, but we're all symptom free now.

Since getting the vaccine it was the first time we got sick and I wasn't at all concerned. I just thought if it's COVID we have the vaccine and it should be minor. And if it's not COVID it's going to be minor. Didn't feel the need to get tested.

Getting the vaccine is so worth the peace of mind. I will happily get my boosters when available, and can't wait to get my son vaccinated so we can finally hit the road.
 
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Red Squirrel

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Feeling ok now, but as precaution my manager dropped off my PC at my house so I'll be working from home for rest of my shifts. Basically even though the symptoms I got are probably 99% the vaccine we treat it as general symptoms just to be on safe side. Won't argue with that, always better to work from home. I still say they should just let us do it 100% of time instead of this BS of having at least 1 person in the office.
 

Muse

Lifer
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So what .... about 50 years ago?? ;)
Well, I suppose older people get more respect these days, partly because the population has aged (on average). Anyway, I refuse to subscribe to the bullshit notion that your life gets worse and worse the older you get. It ain't necessarily so.
 
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