colt45
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Post by colt45 on Feb 27, 2021 14:34:27 GMT
Got my shot yesterday, followup shot 1 month from now. It was easy with only a slightly sore arm.
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Post by quincannon on Feb 27, 2021 15:34:32 GMT
Far from veggie Ian: Along with the mushrooms and Swiss cheese, there is a quarter pound burger as well.
Did not even have a sore arm. I came away from the shot feeling different. When I mentioned feeling different to Joan, she said you are feeling a sense of relief. She went on to say she had the same feeling after she got hers last week. I think she is correct. I mentally turned the corner. One thing I did notice though. I had not been to the grocery store for quite some time. I was struck by how well the store itself and all of the customers seem to have adapted to this radical change of conditions we now all live under. The store had been retrofitted with at least a dozen more self check outs, everyone was wearing a mask, everyone was keeping their distance, and except for the masks you could not tell any difference in the activities from say a year or more ago on a typical Friday afternoon. Human kind, once the need is seen to do so, drops their initial panic over something new, and adapts to the situation at hand. That encourages me.
Looks very much like the goal of 100 million vaccinations in the first hundred days will be easily surpassed by 50 million or more.
The new vaccine approved yesterday, that requires only one shot may even speed up the everybody that wants one goal of mid July. Can't see why everyone would not want one, but there are some in this world who are ignorant, stupid, or both, and don't give two shits about the welfare of their fellow countrymen.
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Post by Beth on Feb 27, 2021 19:14:59 GMT
We are still waiting to hear if we even on the list for a shot. The storm has effected that as well plus they keep changing their minds how to get everyone shots. First it was through your primary doctor's clinics then there was going to be set areas in each county (ours would have been the community center in a +55 neighborhood (Sun City in Georgetown) now we have no idea what they plan to do. I am considered 1c but until Steve gets his we are stuck not being free. I have been in quarantine for a year next week except for MD visits, hospitalizations and that one night in a hotel. I want to see family, walk a garden center, go into a grocery store. I want my life back. Most of all I want everyone else to also have their lives back.
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dave
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Post by dave on Feb 27, 2021 19:47:48 GMT
Pleased everyone has gotten at least one shot. Got my first on January 17 and was scheduled for the second on February 18, but got weathered out. We received about 5 inches of sleet and snow which snarled things up awfully bad. The coldest night was 4 degrees, the lowest since 1994 that I recall.
We did not lose electricity or water and few in North Mississippi had either problem. It was mostly between 10 and 20 degrees and we were below freezing for 10 days. Needless to say we were lucky and fared much better than Beth and her fellow Texans. We average a snow event every 5 years or so and temps rarely fall bellow 12 degrees or so. Our neighborhood has underground power lines. So this was a major event for us unlike Colorado.
Cruz is a political animal and thinks only of himself but alas there are many more in Congress and in political positions of power. Texas has her problems but so does New York and other states. God knows Mississippi has been poorly served by many in her history. Shelby county, Memphis, TN, is being investigated for poor recording keeping, missing vials of COVID vaccine, inoculating teens under the age of 18 as well as a dysfunctional distribution system. The county medical director resigned, the county mayor said they had to improve their accountability to the people and the city of Memphis has taken over the inoculation process. It has been announced that perhaps some of the vials may have been out of storage too long when given to people.
Cruz is a tone deaf idiot but sadly is receiving far more attention than the situation in Memphis. Beyond the state of Tennessee Department of Health beginning an examination into the situation, little is being done officially. It has been announced that 2,800 doses were lost and it looks like many other problems might emerge. Memphis, Shelby county have both Democrat and Republican representatives so this is not a political issue but about citizens. A far worse matter than Cancun Cruz. I hope that no lives are lost due to this criminally negligent situation.
I sincerley hope and pray all are well and we will have less turbluent times in America. Regards David
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Post by yanmacca on Feb 27, 2021 20:16:46 GMT
Keep on trucking Dave! Nice to hear from you.
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Post by quincannon on Feb 27, 2021 20:37:52 GMT
Every state has problems Dave. Some are better equipped to deal with emergencies than others, and even then those preparations vary from state to state depending upon the type of emergency, be it cold weather, flooding, wind events, or even pandemics.
I am far from being an expert on these things, but I fully believe that a completely integrated system of emergency management starting at the Federal level, and over time bringing all states into complete and uniform compliance is the answer to most if not all of it. Mississippi gets cold every once in a while, and Colorado gets cold during the seasonable part of a given year. It seems to me though that Mississippi and Colorado ought to have the exact same means to combat cold, or whatever the issue is, that every other state does. In other words uniformity of protective measures in all fifty being the same.
We probably will not have another COVID like event for some decades to come, but we should be prepared to deal with it uniformly when and if it comes, be that next year or next century. We should be able to take the three ring binder marked PANDEMIC off the shelf and have a uniform fifty state plan laid before us.
All these things cost money, and we have let every part and aspect of our infrastructure grow stale and old in the last fifty years, from highways, to bridges, to emergency planning. That must change or we will find ourselves trying to dig out of one emergency only to be embroiled in another. It is time we put the needs of the American People as our first priority, not to mention the millions upon millions of jobs we could create in the process. Wild fires are a good example. You could put a million people to work at a wage of $20 per hour tomorrow to clean out the underbrush in our forests, and it would pay for itself in the money saved by not having to clean up the aftermath of fires that destroy millions of acres of timberland each year.
Turbulent times should always be expected. The measure of a nation is how we deal with those turbulent times.
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Post by Beth on Feb 28, 2021 18:57:34 GMT
QC, I agree with your final line but would add that a nation should also be judged on how it handles the most vulnerable members of society, not the wealthiest. At times, life is like a game of tug of war and we are only as strong as the weakest members of the team.
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Post by quincannon on Feb 28, 2021 20:17:43 GMT
Beth: A nation that is not its brothers keeper does not remain a nation very long
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Post by Beth on Mar 2, 2021 18:39:08 GMT
I finally got an appointment for my shot--next Tuesday. This coming Friday will mark a year since we went into quarantine. Steve's shot will be a long ways off since he has no factors to move him up.
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dave
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Post by dave on Mar 2, 2021 19:03:10 GMT
Beth I am not familiar with Texas' guidelines on who is eligiable for shots but here in Mississppi you would have qualified to recive your COVID as soon as the program began on December 15. We started with those 75 and older and those who qualified under a medical condition.
We have been fortunte to have had a smooth distribution program operated by the Mississippi National Guard and except for the winter storm 2 weeks ago which threw all of us for a loop. We are a much smaller state, 3 million citizens, but we are moving so far without any major problems and no scandals.
Have y'all been able to have your plumbing issues resolved yet? I have a young friend who is really in a mess. He has a leaking pipe under his slab house and facing a major investment to have it corrected!
Regards Dave
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2021 19:03:55 GMT
My wife and I got ours yesterday, both being over 65. Go back for the 2nd shot on the 29th.
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Post by yanmacca on Mar 2, 2021 21:02:12 GMT
Susan is getting her first shot on Friday, at St Helens Rugby ground! which is a good seven miles away. Apparently they have run out of shots in Widnes so they are sending Widnesians to St Helens, which won't go down very well with the locals, if their shots are being put back.
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dave
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Post by dave on Mar 3, 2021 2:20:44 GMT
We have people in Oxford going to Greenwood (80 miles away) , Starkville (100 miles away) Tupelo (50 miles) or even to Southhaven (80) just to get a shot. The way it works here is that you go anywhere in Mississippi and we have had people from Tennessee, Louisiana and Alabama coming for shots. A long drive is worth having the protection from the virus! Regards Dave Sue and I get our second shot Thursday
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Post by quincannon on Mar 3, 2021 4:08:38 GMT
I feel cheated. I only had to drive a mile and a half.
Wearing a mask is important too, contrary to the beliefs of some Governors, including your's I understand Dave. That ain't smart. What in the hell is he thinking?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2021 12:05:28 GMT
I feel cheated. I only had to drive a mile and a half. Wearing a mask is important too, contrary to the beliefs of some Governors, including your's I understand Dave. That ain't smart. What in the hell is he thinking? Whatever they are doing, it does not include thinking. I am not sure they know how to think.
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