BF2S Forums Pandemic thread

Australians: coming back home from India.
Dilbert: those darned Indians.

got my second shot yesterday
kinda sore all over this morning.
starting to get chills now.

Last edited by RTHKI (2021-04-29 05:47:11)

i need to go to the doctor sometime now that im vaccinated. its been a long time.

I made an appointment for the Pfizer. Available at a lot of nearby drug stores, and nausea is a possible side effect that I'm eager enough to avoid that I'm fine with two appointments. Loosely related (may have already mentioned), a contact told me their cardiologist recommended J&J to them, though I wasn't clear on the reasons described.

I was also told to expect to wait for up to 30 minutes of observation after the injection.

Yeah, I'll definitely pick an ebook to start on while sitting around. I don't know if they mean waiting in a room or just stick around the store. If the latter, I'll happily go browse gardening. A lot of stuff is being rolled out deep into parking stalls at hardware/grocery/drug stores.

First admitting I once had a pet chihuahua, now with the flowers. Whatever will the internet think of me now.

If Jay were he'd kick yo ass.

No huge side-effects on the Pfizer after a few hours of first dose, just some area muscle soreness that might have been helped along by propping on an elbow as I read.

e: 5 hours later, noticeably sore, but still localized. No other symptoms. I hope the second dose won't destroy me like I've heard from people.

e2: Some of the questions I got surprised me. Family wants me to keep them updated on stuff. So far, it pretty much feels like a flu shot. Second one might be more interesting.

e3: While reading up on info about these, found one of the most annoying (fwp) publications. Some online mag called "best life" that builds groups of articles like some monstrous nesting doll. Followed it just to see how deep it went. "Don't do within 2 hours." *click* "Don't do within a week." *click* "Don't do within two months" *click*

It's not a rabbit hole, it's a rabbit city. If I opened every one of them I'd probably have 200 active tabs, and maybe 4,000 ads if I didn't block those. Very ugly way to milk readers of your pandemic info writings.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56963996

Hopefully the world will remember the Chinese are not our friends.

By our I meant anyone's.

Yes Boris Johnsons private burblings are exactly the same as the CCP's public media outlet.

Anyway - On the plus side David Warner is stuck in India.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-03/ … /100112852

Dilbert_X wrote:

Yes Boris Johnsons private burblings are exactly the same as the CCP's public media outlet.

Anyway - On the plus side David Warner is stuck in India.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-03/ … /100112852

the conservative party have made any number of snafus on their official twitter account - which is why i said i'm not shocked and appalled when political messaging is very crass or insensitive. and don't even get started on the trump white house or GOP in the last 4-5 years. you won't have to look very hard to find 'public media outlets' committing serious comms blunders.

but i guess one poorly conceived videoclip on a website undoes the fact that, er, china have been much more immediate and responsive in their offers of aid to india, where the EU/US has dragged its feet and majorly hemmed and hawed. india immediately sent thousands of ventilators to the UK during our direst hour; how long did it take us to send a significant portion of aid back, now they're in a crisis? make u think. but let's talk about china being the great evil because of, er, a social media post.

why are you so hard on india when brazil has been the exact same open air petri dish? i thought india were 'us' too in the fight against marvel super-hero villain china? you only seem to get into conniptions about india and china -- i guess because they directly affect your sheltered little life in australia. but you're very good at the 'our plight', oh-the-humanity-scale stuff when it suits your argument.

Last edited by uziq (2021-05-04 04:27:52)

brazil and india are two of the world’s biggest democracies, you’d think if the plight of humanity was your genuine concern that you’d be equally concerned about brazil too.

as it turns out, you’re angry at indians because they come to your tiny, irrelevant country (which makes up about 0.5% of the global population), and because they drive your taxis.

you’re honestly one of the most trivial people i have ever encountered. strong opinions resting on the most petty foundations.