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VeloClone said:
They had a mass vaccination for teachers this week here in MN. They had selected a certain number of teachers from various school districts but not every teacher from each district. Apparently some asshat administrators and teachers took it upon themselves to forward their invite to a whole bunch of others so that the slots filled up before everyone selected could get an appointment. In one district they were supposed to have 250 vaccinated. Only 1 got their slot. I have to assume that part of the criteria on who originally got the slots was age so that educators older than 50 had priority. But instead there are a bunch of the young and healthy who got shots while others who might be of higher risk came up empty.

Some ass bags really piss me off.
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This kind of stuff will happen I'm afraid and the only thing good I can find out of it is at least more people have protection and hopefully transmission is lessened. Otherwise our vast improvement on more ways to communicate is further dooming us.

My g/f is immunocompromised and her specific Dr. won't put her on a list, while a colleague with similar conditions with a different Dr. at the same place, was at least put on a waiting list of some sort if there's spare doses.
Other positives are it feels like it's more common to hear about some folks' parents etc. getting in which means we're chipping away at it.
 
BCClone said:
In the news, there were complaints in Virginia, about the hard push by educators to be added in with the health care workers since they would have a lot of exposure due to the kids. They got added in the same que and got the shots, but now still say they won't do in person classes. If you are going to stay on line, let the elderly and more serious in need people get it first.
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Our governor is an educator so he pushed that from the start.

That is exactly what I have been saying. If someone goes and gets a shot they shouldn't have the option of staying with online teaching. It was incredibly frustrating for our kids last fall when they were in hybrid learning (all on-line right now) and would go to school on their in-person days and have some of their classes where they sat in a classroom with a screen for the teacher. I get it, but when you have the benefit of priority on the vaccination and actually get the vaccination you need to be there for the kids who have to go back to school and haven't even gotten to be vaccinated.
 
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madguy30 said:
This kind of stuff will happen I'm afraid and the only thing good I can find out of it is at least more people have protection and hopefully transmission is lessened. Otherwise our vast improvement on more ways to communicate is further dooming us.

My g/f is immunocompromised and her specific Dr. won't put her on a list, while a colleague with similar conditions with a different Dr. at the same place, was at least put on a waiting list of some sort if there's spare doses.
Other positives are it feels like it's more common to hear about some folks' parents etc. getting in which means we're chipping away at it.
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Get a second opinion.

From my days in dealing with FMLA, I can attest that people with pretty much nothing wrong with them can find a doctor to sign off on just about anything. They just are pests until the doctor signs it to get them out of his/her office.
 
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BCClone said:
In the news, there were complaints in Virginia, about the hard push by educators to be added in with the health care workers since they would have a lot of exposure due to the kids. They got added in the same que and got the shots, but now still say they won't do in person classes. If you are going to stay on line, let the elderly and more serious in need people get it first.
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Another head scratcher: I just read about a clinic in Georgia that gave some vaccines to teachers who didn't qualify for whatever the 1A+ guidelines are here so they shut down the clinic from giving out any vaccines now. I get they did something they weren't supposed to, but is shutting them down completely the best response when we are already struggling with distribution? It's in rural area too so it is only going to make it more difficult for the people in need to get them.
 
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I have absolutely no idea what they are doing in regards to vaccines in Omaha. I do know a man in assisted living got his second shot on Tuesday.
I just figure to keep doing what I am doing until things get sorted out.
 
Seeing stuff about the doc called 'The Minimalists'. I like the idea and it would be great if more people focused on what they can control and live by what they need and not rely on 'stuff'.

I once bought a book about it but it was ironically like 250 pages of similar information...I got the message about 10 pages in.
 
I think my MIL is due to get her second shot any day. I'm riding the AB positive negative plasma donation train as far as she goes.


One tax paper I've had to file for years now, always a pain in the butt to dig up the forms, fill them out and wait for the government to mail the back in about two months. Saw a company that online would file it for 9.99. Took me about five minutes to do everything and get the return back. Not going the old way ever again. The ten bucks was worth it.
 
VeloClone said:
Get a second opinion.

From my days in dealing with FMLA, I can attest that people with pretty much nothing wrong with them can find a doctor to sign off on just about anything. They just are pests until the doctor signs it to get them out of his/her office.
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I think that option was attempted to no avail.

I'd like to ask the colleague (also a friend of mine) to see if he can ask his Dr. to put her on the list but I also don't want to butt in too much.
 
BCClone said:
I think my MIL is due to get her second shot any day. I'm riding the AB positive negative plasma donation train as far as she goes.


One tax paper I've had to file for years now, always a pain in the butt to dig up the forms, fill them out and wait for the government to mail the back in about two months. Saw a company that online would file it for 9.99. Took me about five minutes to do everything and get the return back. Not going the old way ever again. The ten bucks was worth it.
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During my blood donation time this morning, we were talking about antibodies, etc. and the guy working with me told me about a gentleman who comes in our location and has had antibodies for months. I'm sure there's a lab or two somewhere who's studying the extreme differences of antibody presence, and I'm really interested in what they find out.
I've heard and read bits and pieces about the positive influence of Vitamin D, as in if you don't get much, you're higher risk (don't quote me) and it makes me think about the time years ago that a dietician here on campus told me that studies were showing the RDA amount of Vit. D was much too low for many people and suggested I should take more. A few years later my doctor started checking on how much I get and increased what he wanted me to have. If vit. D turns out to be a positive factor, I'll be happy and really intrigued.
 
I was going to make fried rice for lunch but the chicken isn't thawed as I pulled it far too late.
Now I have to figure something out. Could always order from the Mexican place a mile away
 
Ms3r4ISU said:
During my blood donation time this morning, we were talking about antibodies, etc. and the guy working with me told me about a gentleman who comes in our location and has had antibodies for months. I'm sure there's a lab or two somewhere who's studying the extreme differences of antibody presence, and I'm really interested in what they find out.
I've heard and read bits and pieces about the positive influence of Vitamin D, as in if you don't get much, you're higher risk (don't quote me) and it makes me think about the time years ago that a dietician here on campus told me that studies were showing the RDA amount of Vit. D was much too low for many people and suggested I should take more. A few years later my doctor started checking on how much I get and increased what he wanted me to have. If vit. D turns out to be a positive factor, I'll be happy and really intrigued.
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A 10 month ABer here.

Doesn't sound like that matters to some variants much so we'll see how things look in a few months.
 
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NWICY said:
In a surprising note today, public heath in my county called my folks and they get their 1st round of Covid shots tomorrow. I feel relief.
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Got an email from McFarland yesterday that we are part of 1B. They are calling folks to set up appointments, starting with the oldest and working their way down to those who are 66 (us). The email said they anticipate that it will take several months to finish the 1B group, so maybe late spring will happen after all. We can seek out an appointment elsewhere if we want, but if late spring is do-able, gonna go with that. Crossing my fingers.
 
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ImJustKCClone said:
Got an email from McFarland yesterday that we are part of 1B. They are calling folks to set up appointments, starting with the oldest and working their way down to those who are 66 (us). The email said they anticipate that it will take several months to finish the 1B group, so maybe late spring will happen after all. We can seek out an appointment elsewhere if we want, but if late spring is do-able, gonna go with that. Crossing my fingers.
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I saw a post on FB yesterday about McFarland having a list and calling all their patients in the 65+ group, also that they won't schedule until having vaccine in hand. That just made so much sense to me that I wished I was in that group. As it is, I'll be lucky to see grandkid #3 (due in a couple of weeks) before he/she is ready for kindergarten. (not really, just sighing here.)
 
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madguy30 said:
A 10 month ABer here.

Doesn't sound like that matters to some variants much so we'll see how things look in a few months.
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I mentioned our group's conversation here (no names, no screen names, no board name) and some folks' ongoing AB availability. I'll check on my test result next week, although I expect it to be negative.
 
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Ended up donating double reds. We will see what the AB test comes back as.

Heard a rumor that my employer is pushing for us to get moved up on the priority list. I could see it for some people that have to go in but not everyone.
 
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In today's note that I've worked in or managed too many odd places:

Sitting here eating lunch. Kiddo is smartly cutting stuff for an art project. She's never been dangerous about this.

Suddenly she says "I am so careful and smart about this!"
Head shoots up, knowing that so many people who say that stuff to me could easily be over there trimming their eyebrows with a boxcutter, surfing on a cart, or something equally stupid.

Typing it here so I don't tell her (this time) how my broken mind works.
 
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