I personally wouldn’t be concerned. I have IBS and follow a healthy, organic, Mediterranean, FODMAP diet to avoid issues. My wife is vegan, so I eat vegan for many meals too, but where I am going with all this is I can have severe adverse reactions to food as if I am getting food poisoning, but I don’t have rashes or hives or horse throat or other issues with any food. I think we are in the same boat, and I am not worried.

Yeah, sounds roughly the same. I don't get any typical allergic reactions from food (other than like almonds, which somehow do both but never very seriously).

Just FYI, I have been talking to people at work, and I am guessing 50-75% of the staff say they are not going to get the vaccine at all, or they are planning to wait until enough people take it without issues. I’m surprised this sentiment is coming from healthcare professionals, and what’s worse, almost all of them whom I’ve talked to are making this decision from an uninformed position, which is sad.

Sometimes I feel like I am living in the movie Idiocracy.

Do you think this is mostly due to "rushing out the vaccine"?

I originally partially had that mentality, but after reading more about it and how various parts of it have undergone research in the past I've felt more confident about it.

Yes, they think it is rushed. I don’t know what they expect. Again, from my conversations with many people, this seems to be from an uninformed position. Most people don’t research things. Any doubt from anyone anywhere that is pervasive enough turns into a mob mentality where people follow the sentiment of the crowd like lemmings.

225k new cases today with 3,243 new deaths.

ICU beds are reaching capacity. Typically hospitals get full this time of year, but obviously COVID is making it worse. Typically it isn’t this bad so soon when we are still in fall.

Like you, I'm particularly saddened by this.

I have been living under a rock for the last week, has government leadership volunteered to take the vaccine first to convince people it's safe? Because if not they should.

What? No. That's what old people are for.

Actually somewhat, yeah: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronav...cine-on-camera

I've been living under a rock for the last 3 years. It's nice and cozy under here.


I'm very mixed on getting the vaccine. Not outright opposed to it, but am concerned about how it was fast tracked, the stringent storage requirements, and unintended side effects of it. Also unsure of how long it offers any sort of resistance for, sources seem to skew between 3 months to a few years, but then also say being exposed to the virus itself could offer similar protection. At the same time I've heard more than a few times the virus is mutating faster than we can build a resistance to it, so it's all in vain anyways...

I honestly don't even know which way is up anymore with all of the misinformation, pre-information(stuff that's fundamentally true, but jumps to the media before scientists can verify), and facts all getting so jumbled and jammed out everywhere faster than a flat earther can deny the curved horizon...

:D

Meh, stick it in my arm

I've had more vaccinations from everything from the flu to the plague that another won't bother me

There is a small percentage of people that "may" have an issue, like dying on the raod on the way to work, or getting cancer

Some people are idiots and need to remove their tin foil hats and get on with life

Putin gave Sputnik to his daughter.