Thread: Got the jab today.

As of Wed I'm now double dosed on AZ. Almost no reaction this time around.

Originally Posted by woodPixel

Still, I have to admit, I'm a bit miffed at the anti-vaxx horde.... They promised me 5G, magnetism, a tracking module and mind control.

I'm sad to report all my implants have spectacularly failed

There's a guy in a white coat somewhere, with wild hair, watching a dot on a screen. He's rubbing his hands together and muttering "they think they're not being tracked, good, the mind control is working.."

After my jab I did instantly think about buying a Microsoft shirt.


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Originally Posted by forrestmount

After my jab I did instantly think about buying a Microsoft shirt.


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And a new pair of shoes, perhaps, so you could re-boot?

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Warb

There's a guy in a white coat somewhere, with wild hair, watching a dot on a screen. He's rubbing his hands together and muttering "they think they're not being tracked, good, the mind control is working.."

We don't need him as we already have Google knowing all about us and our habits.

58yo
Got the Pfizer vaccine.
Went MTB riding the same day as both injections (Not really recommended by the Med people. Drinking lots of water is.)
Total side effects - sore arm at injection site.

Of course, becoming magnetic might be one of the “long term” effects!
(The other long term effect, actually backed up by science, is “getting less sick” if/when I catch Covid.)

Originally Posted by sacc51

Side effects are largely a result of imagination and panic. Side effects from vaccines are largely brought on by the individuals mindset, they talk themselves into it!

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What it comes down to is, people are basically stupid!

Thank you for calling me stupid.

As someone who has had over the last 12 years prostate cancer, radiation treatment, weakened diaphragm and as such a partially collapsed lung, auto immune hepatitis, regular gastrophocies, liver cancer last year and again this year involving chemo and emblations, biopsies and finally radiation again.

My kidney functions are not good, after 17 contrast scans, so the CT scans are now required to be done with the infusion method and the amount of blood given for tests over the years would fill a warehouse. In addition my blood platelet count is so low that for each operation I now need a platelet infusion.

So I know the functions of my body intimately and I'm damned certain that I know if my arm is sore from the booster injection.

Peter.

Originally Posted by Chesand

We don't need him as we already have Google knowing all about us and our habits.

As we _should_ all know by now, Google devices pick up WiFi signals as they move about (they don't need to log on just to detect the WiFi network) and then "geolocate" that network with GPS before reporting it back to HQ. This allows Google to locate devices close to that WiFi even when they have no GPS (indoors) etc., by having a database of WiFi network locations. When they started doing this there were people who didn't like the idea, so Google provided an "out" for those who didn't want their WiFi location recorded. The out was to append "_nomap" to the end of the network name. Microsoft in a similar way used "_optout" to provide an out from their WiFi password sharing system.

Out of professional interest (I was in I.T. before I retired) I created my farm networks using both these "outs" to see what would happen. For a long time (perhaps a couple of years), we did indeed have no location. To clarify, we had no location based on Google's system - various other companies also try to geolocate based on other things like IP address, so we "appeared" in various cities and states around Australia depending on what our ISP was doing at the time. However, after a couple of years our network was suddenly geolocated to Kobel (Germany). It confused the hell out of many apps on our phones - outside we were in Australia and two seconds later we were on the other side of the planet! Apps like the Lottery refused to sell us tickets until we went outside (they can't sell tickets outside Australia). Made me laugh......

During a visit to the doctor last week he informed me that I was in need of a third COVID vaccination. I reminded him that it was only 3 months since my second and a booster was at 6 months. He shook his head and said the latest info is that some people with a blood condition get three injections for additional protection then a booster after 6 months. Maybe that’s one of the “underlying conditions” that one reads about.

Had it yesterday, this time it was Pfizer instead of AZ, only minor reaction with some aches and a painful injection site which SWMBO unintentionally? poked during the night to get me to turn over because I was allegedly snoring.

I get my 3rd on Thursday. Told we only have to wait for a week now. My last one was in August.

I had my 2nd shot of AZ in mid August so was expecting to get the booster 6 months later in Feb; then they changed it to only 5 months and then as of Tuesday 4 months thus putting me in the eligible bucket now. So while I was out and about in town I popped into the official QLD health vacc centre as a walk-in patient. About 30 minutes later I came back out with a shot of Pfizer in my arm but to my dismay; again NO LOLLYPOP .

3rd Pfizer vaccine yesterday, and the same low level aches & fatigue as after the 2nd.

Then, today I get a notification that a COVID positive person was at the same hospital for nearly the same 2 hour window 😱

So, I could be just reacting to the vaccine, or I could have ironically been infected at the hospital whilst being vaccinated.

I'm hoping for option 1, as I was inadvertently triple-masked!
I grabbed an N95 mask before heading to the hospital, then realised I had used that mask whilst sanding recently, so I popped a cloth mask over it, hoping to not spread wood dust at the hospital. Then, the hospital insisted on giving me a cheap surgical mask, so it went over the top of the other 2.
Several people in line did the under-nose/chin/gaping sides style of 'masking', so I'm curious about how they may pan out ...

Originally Posted by arose62

Several people in line did the under-nose/chin/gaping sides style of 'masking', so I'm curious about how they may pan out ...

I have heard the efficacy of that technique likened to tying a condom around the testicles.

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by sacc51

Of all the vaccinations I've had, including those as a kid, I never got so much as a sore arm or a lump where the vaccine was injected. Side effects from vaccines are largely brought on by the individuals mindset, they talk themselves into it!

What it comes down to is, people are basically stupid!

This is a strange notion given that the pfizer and moderna documents actually mention the incidence of side effects in their tests above and beyond placebo.

For pfizer shots 1 and 2, I had nothing.

So when the report said on average, lower incidence from the booster than shot two other than a headache and sore armpit, I was sure I'd get nothing.

I had the boost about 10 months after the second shot. It lit me up for three days, which was an unpleasant surprise as I was celebrating beforehand that I wasn't to get side effects because I hadn't before.

For the first day or so, I had "bone tiredness", which I thought I'd try to power through and work in the shop - but I couldn't. Then the sore armpit that pfizer predicted set in and I had localized asthma in the same region (I already have asthma) - that was annoying as I've not used an inhaler for two years. Asthma begets asthma (coughing excites it, makes it worse) and my ampit was sore with an enlarged node for five days.

Only the first three did I feel off other than the armpit.

Doc's husband was in the moderna test group - she couldn't get out of bed for a day (she was, too - months before any vax was available). Her husband had a fever of 104 for almost three days after shot 2.

I guess he imagined it.

The virtue of the side effects for most people are that they're temporary. When her husband's fever broke, he was almost entirely back to normal the next day. Since the vax group was double blind, they got an antibody test later (paid to have it done privately in a lab) and they had antibodies.

I'd get the vax again if the dominant variant was delta - it'd be nice to get the "real thing" shortly after you have the vax or booster, but most people aren't that lucky. If the dominant variant is something like omicron, I'm looking to get omicron instead at this point - vs. another booster. Data will probably show the immunity for someone who has had omicron and vax to be better than continuing to boost with a narrow profile vaccine.