D&D and the rising pandemic

[Imaculata]

Getting my first shot tomorrow. Finally! I heard some people come down with pretty heavy side effects, especially after the 2nd shot; it can make you really sick. Guess I'll have to see for myself.

Meanwhile there are large groups of covid conspiracy loons and anti-vaxers in my province. It is just frustrating to see so much distrust of science and of the government. As if we haven't beaten a deadly desease with vaccinations before, and as if there is any reason for so many governments across the world to willfully tank their economy. It makes me so angry.

Part of me wishes natural selection would sort this out, but there are also a lot of innocent immuno-compromised people at risk because of these jerks.

 

[J.Quondam]

I got my second shot almost exactly three months ago. (!!)
Re: the second dose - Yeah, mine (I had the Pfizer one) was unpleasant but not too bad. Overall, i felt vaguely fatigued and a little achy all over on the day after the shot-- more or less similar to my usual reaction to a flu shot. For me the worst part was just that the site of the shot in my arm ached/stung for several days, then felt better for a few days, then ached again for a few more days.

I got the vaccine so early because I'm in one of those (US) counties with a large anti-vaxxer population of the, umm, "politically motivated" sort. Authorities opened up access to the shots because they were so desperate to get anybody to take them so the stuff wouldn't just rot. I'm grateful I was in the right place, right time and managed to get vaxxed so early. But it's incredibly frustrating now to see so many folks elsewhere still waiting on theirs, while ignoramuses here are proudly proclaiming "See, no vaccine, and I didn't get the covid!" like they're so much smarter than the medical establishment. I guess time will tell if they're also smarter than these new nastier covid variants slowly worming their way into the country.

 

[CapnZapp]

Getting shot #2 next week here.

It's incredibly frustrating to have even normally intelligent friends apparently succumbing to pandemic fatigue and declaring the situation over.

It's not. It really isn't. Not even in high vaccinated countries.

Delta plus appears to spread faster than people can get vaccinated, and the race nobody's talking about - how to improve the vaccines to stop tomorrow's strains - has already begun.

I am sad and angry to have to face the realization it's not just "people" that are stupid and ignorant, it's people I know, people i thought to be intellectual and reasonable...

 

[J.Quondam]

I am sad and angry to have to face the realization it's not just "people" that are stupid and ignorant, it's people I know, people i thought to be intellectual and reasonable...

I feel your pain. Much of my family -- well educated people -- fall into that category.

 

[Umbran]

I am sad and angry to have to face the realization it's not just "people" that are stupid and ignorant, it's people I know, people i thought to be intellectual and reasonable...

So, my apologies if I am preaching to the choir...

It is often not about being stupid or ignorant. It is about how human cognition is not free of its emotional drives. And after a year of this crap, the emotional drives can be very, very strong.

 

[Zardnaar]

So, my apologies if I am preaching to the choir...

It is often not about being stupid or ignorant. It is about how human cognition is not free of its emotional drives. And after a year of this crap, the emotional drives can be very, very strong.

That and Covid fatigue.

It's not really viable for the majority of people to social distance for 3 years or whatever.

Covids not that deadly as fair as pandemics go it's not like the streets are filling up with dead people. You don't really see the direct effects unless it's your family.

Throw in that humans tend to be terrible at risk assessment (let's live on this volcano) and yeah.

 

[Hussar]

Oy, I live on a volcano.

 

[Zardnaar]

Oy, I live on a volcano.

How active though? We had tourists killed because they thought visiting an active volcano was a good idea.

 

[Zardnaar]

Border closed with Australia.

Stuff

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Sydney going into a two week lockdown.

Level 2 extended 48 hours.

Stuff

i.stuff.co.nz

No new cases found the passenger from Australia infected partner upon return to Oz. No one's know is traveling anyway.

 

[Umbran]

That and Covid fatigue.

"Covid fatigue" is part and parcel of what I'm talking about.