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[Vector]

At least in the US, they're saying frontline workers -> old people and people living in compressed housing -> young adults (superspreader population)

[ChairmanPoo]

IMO it doesnt save anything. Its not like superspreaders are going to admit they are behaving as such and get fined. Plus  you're rewarding risky behavior, they might not wait to get the two doses before throwing covid parties (and might feel false security), and it's questionable how willing rules floating douchebags would be to get the vaccine shots.

Better to frontload  sensible vulnerable population and frontliners in general (including but not limited to hcw. I think Vector should get the vaccine too)

[Frumple]

Y'know...folks that have been paying closer attention, is there actually recommendation floating around that older diabetics not take the vaccine? Grandparents have picked that up from somewhere or another.

[Vector]

Better to frontload sensible vulnerable population and frontliners in general (including but not limited to hcw. I think Vector should get the vaccine too)

Thanks, but in my opinion I should be last in line I teach at the university level now and at least in theory the 18+ population no longer need me to handle their socio-emotional learning, so we can handle online for a good while.

Monkeyhead, on the other hand...

[Starver]

But you're a self-proclaimed vector, Vector!

 

[ChairmanPoo]

Y'know...folks that have been paying closer attention, is there actually recommendation floating around that older diabetics not take the vaccine? Grandparents have picked that up from somewhere or another.

Nope, quite the contrary. Having diabetes puts them more at risk of covid so they should get the vaccine

[MonkeyHead]

Yeah, youd think poor sods like me who spend all day in poorly ventilated rooms with +30 small humans of age 11-18 featuring no PPE would be rather high priority.

No dice there though.

At least all my delivery (even my work with universties) is now done remotely, for the foreseeable future.

[scriver]

My commune decided to start the school season up with distance teaching in elementary school too, which is nice.

[Loud Whispers]

noice I just got the first vaccine dose. 16 weeks later I'll complete the course

[Starver]

I thought it was supposed to be 12? And, originally, 3.

...is it the Oxford or the BioNTech? (Too early to be Moderna, I'm sure.)

[Loud Whispers]

12 to 16, I assume the longest delay because logistics. Pfizer one

[nenjin]

Turns out my friend who had Covid already once......tested positive a second time in November. She *said* her husband tested positive and that's why she was staying out of the office for two weeks.....now I'm kinda doubting that. Like, good, she stayed home. But she shoulda told us the truth. I'd probably have gone and gotten tested again if she had. When she said she may have just continued to shed the virus since her first infection, I was like....uh well that means you've possibly infected a lot of people.

None of us have had any symptoms but I dunno. If she's just been carrying it around the whole time it's likely one of us also got it at some point and was just asymptomatic.

*sigh* Please let this shit be over this year.

[ChairmanPoo]

It doesnt normally work like that.

Meaning: the current consensus is that persistent covid + dont imply infectivity in general, although there's still controversy with persistently positive immunocompromised patients

[Starver]

Spoiler: Updated priorities (click to show/hide)

[Akura]

Oh hey, so one of my coworkers that I work in relatively close contact with tested positive. Our manager won't tell us who, which kinda makes sense, although I'd have a much clearer picture of what happened if he had. Instead, people who were at risk(including me) were told individually of the possible exposure, and I was recommended to get tested. Except that the possible exposure happened more than two weeks ago and nobody has reported any kind of symptoms since.