on coping with C19 lockdown

[Halfmiler2]

We traveled forty miles (by SUV!) in the beginning of yet another snowstorm to get my 2nd shot (Moderna) this morning. We will see about the side effects which they told us occur 12 to 24 hours afterwards.

[Atticus]

We traveled forty miles (by SUV!) in the beginning of yet another snowstorm to get my 2nd shot (Moderna) this morning. We will see about the side effects which they told us occur 12 to 24 hours afterwards.

Got ours (2ndM) yesterday and my arm is a little bit sorer than last time, and my sleep was restless. My wife was throwing up by evening. She says she's a little better today.

[jeremyp]

I am pretty selective in my reading, too, avoiding yappers if at all possible. Yapper being defined as someone who ultimately is looking to entertain rather than calmly inform.

Hmm! A famous one died yesterday. Don't all Rush to figure out who.

[Halfmiler2]

After 48 hours, I have had very little side effect from the 2nd Moderna shot. I am not quite 100% but nothing really bad.

[Atticus]

After 48 hours, I have had very little side effect from the 2nd Moderna shot. I am not quite 100% but nothing really bad.

The Missus I and feel great today, 2 days later.

[tandfman]

Pandemic Haiku:

So I'm 10 years old
School, friends, soccer, sleepovers
Not a chance this year

Twenty years old now
Full tuition, no classes
Quarantine in dorm

Thirty to 50
Can only work from home
Know where to stick Zoom

Getting much older
Out to dinner, see a show
Only in my dreams

Cannot exercise
Take a walk around the block
Mask up, cover nose

First shot, second shot
Like card to get out of jail
Hope for solution

[tandfman]

No, i'm not clever enough to have written that stuff. It was forwarded to me by an old friend (retired MD who was a fraternity brother). Not sure he wrote it either.

[gh]

from the NY Times morning briefing (bf mine):

<<Roughly one year since the first known coronavirus-related death was reported in the U.S., an unfathomable toll is nearing — the loss of half a million people. As of Sunday, the pandemic death toll was 497,403, higher than in any other country. More Americans have died from Covid-19 than on the battlefields of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined>>.

[Atticus]

Roughly one year since the first known coronavirus-related death was reported in the U.S. More Americans have died from Covid-19 than on the battlefields of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined.

Approaching the original C-word. Cancer killed a little over 600,000 Americans in 2020.

[Conor Dary]

Front page of the Times today...

[Conor Dary]

Today is National Margarita Day! Skol!

[Django]

Don't let my girfirend know, or I'll have to make one for her! Actually, her preferred drink has become pastis after we went to southern France
For what it's worth, I'm another rickety old guy who has now received the second dose of Moderna vaccine yesterday, and I have a mild degree of achiness, nothing more!

[bhall]

Man I hope this is the case...

Vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna pledge massive boost to U.S. supply after sluggish rollout

Drug companies told lawmakers Tuesday that they project a major increase in vaccine deliveries that will result in 140 million more doses over the next five weeks, saying they have solved manufacturing challenges and are in a position to overcome scarcity that has hampered the nation’s fight against the coronavirus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...fizer-moderna/

[Atticus]

Drug companies told lawmakers Tuesday that they project a major increase in vaccine deliveries that will result in 140 million more doses over the next five weeks, saying they have solved manufacturing challenges and are in a position to overcome scarcity that has hampered the nation’s fight against the coronavirus.

Outstanding news, not just for us, but the rest of the world!

[lonewolf]

Got my second shot today. Just as for the first one, I did not even feel the shot. Came home immediately for my daily walk/jog. Unlike after the first shot, I was strangely slightly fatigued with low backache for the first mile. Sat down at the one-mile bench, tied my shoe, resumed walk with no further discomfort or fatigue. All good now.