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Pastimes : COVID-19 How has this impacted your life? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Underexposed who wrote (1036)	4/25/2021 12:15:49 PM
From: musicfan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1084

Hi UE, We have to have a cell phone as well. They send a text with your confirmation number. Got our Pfizer shots on Friday. A bit sore at the injection site, couldn't sleep on that side but the pain was gone by Saturday night so slept better being able to switch sides. I registered for follow up surveys to monitor for side effects. I'll be sent the first survey nine days after the jab. Apparently it takes a couple of weeks for immunity to build and then we plan on getting together with our best friends who got theirs two weeks ago, somewhere outdoors so we don't bother others too much, and spend the first five minutes hugging. I was never much of a huggy feely kinda guy but after more than a year without I'm ready. Wife doesn't count hahaha. We'll have to wait longer to hug kids and grands though, they haven't been granted the right to vaccinate yet due to their ages. Still need to distance and put on a mask when in proximity but we do feel safer and are looking forward to the second shot in August. With the feds ordering up another 60 million plus shots for next year and the one after it sure sounds like annual boosters going forward. Maybe all the anti vaxxers will win the Darwin Award and the rest of us can get herd immunity going. Cheers, MF

To: Underexposed who wrote (1036)	4/25/2021 5:02:21 PM
From: Zen Dollar Round	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1084

I got my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Friday and other than a sore arm, I've had no side other effects. The soreness is almost completely gone today. My second shot is scheduled for mid May. I believe the Pfizer vaccine is the "safest" of the big three for side effects, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna being the other two. But that said, I think the chances for severe side effects are rare. For example, there have been 7 reported cases of blood clots in women in the U.S. for the J&J vaccine, but that's out of 9 million doses. That equates to a .000078% chance of having that issue if my calculations are correct. My brother-in-law got the Moderna vaccine and the second shot put him out of commission for a day with aches and a slight fever, but he recovered quickly. Word is that those getting the Pfizer (and perhaps other) vaccine will need a booster shot in the fall, but I'll deal with that when the time comes.