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[Starver]

Turns out the while covid thing was just Microsoft-guy's secret plot to turn us all into catgirls

The jokes on him... Watashi wa neko desu, nyo!

[Bumber]

Turns out the while covid thing was just Microsoft-guy's secret plot to turn us all into catgirls

The jokes on him... Watashi wa neko desu, nyo!

Then you get turned into a girlcat.

[LordBaal]

The past two weeks every other day some acquaintance or friend have lost someone to covid.

There seems to be a near chance for us to get the russian vaccine. I hope we can get it before they start rolling the cuban "vaccine" which they pretend to give out massively soon.

[dragdeler]

The past two weeks every other day some acquaintance or friend have lost someone to covid.

at that rate I bet they weren't all that old. Yet shitheads will joke about me wearing a mask at my job, outside, like the rules actually prescribe to anybody entering the area... Ugh there it is, the consqeuence of our indifference. And I'm here procrastinating getting a vaccine just because I realized that like allmost everybody I know IRL ignored the option to get vaccinated in some thougtless manner or another, and like, if whichever trends wane off and the wind suddenly turns, I wanna be in that one control group an not the other simply because all my IRL contacts are in that one group. I especially don't want to be the healthiest MF around and forced to fake emphaty to any close ones who missed their invitation... Ugh I don't even know if mine is still valid .


I think there is enough vaccines out allready that there is no reason to be biased against a cuban one, other than less stats being available about it. I doesn't seem to be a near impossible task, rather reproducable. I think the invitations they give out here make it such that there is different vaccines given to people in the same household. And that doesn't seem like the worst idea to me, eventhough IDK if it's just a rumor or actual policy.

[LordBaal]

In fact drag most of them werent that old. I mean some were younger than me, incluiding a children.

The issue with the cuban vaccine is they fist brought the russian one, and then they said that vaccine is only for the people with the party ID... and then they said, hey, for everyone else (ie everyone NOT in the party) we are bringing the cuban one.

By chance of getting the russian vaccine I mean I'll be able to bribe someone so we can get it without actually having to join the political party.

[ChairmanPoo]

Tbh I think there's reason to be biased in favor of vaccines with more evidence and info available, regardless of where they are from. Plain truth is, i didn't even know that there was a Cuban vaccine, and common sense suggests that they probably don't have the capacity to run trials to the same scale larger countries or large pharmaceutical conglomerates can. So, even though I have nothing in particular against Cuban science, I think  it's not unreasonable for Baal to prefer to get the Russian one (or, for that matter, to prefer one of the mRNA vaccines over either, if given the choice)

[Lord Shonus]

There's considerable evidence that only a few plants are making a version of the Sputnik vaccine that actually works. Tests have shown that the stuff coming from South Korea (which is good) isn't remotely the same stuff others are getting. This is why there's major outbreaks in several countries with high vax rates.

With that in mind, I'd be very suspicious of a vaccine made in a country with even fewer resources. Cuba has a surprisingly capable homegrown research setup, but still.

[LordBaal]

Imagine for a moment that Biden says, hey here is this vaccine for everyone... which is in the democrat party.... and then there is this one for the republicans and everyone else.

Wouldn't you be even a bit suspicious...

[MrRoboto75]

Cuba has a surprisingly capable homegrown research setup, but still.

I thought Cuban healthcare was relatively robust, in spite of US embargo.

[LordBaal]

On one of the bridges from Colombia to Venezuela it says Venezuela is a world superpower.... you would not actually believe that would you?

[Lord Shonus]

Cuba has a pretty solid medical setup for the resources available to them. That doesn't necessarily equip them to handle something this new this fast.

[LordBaal]

Yeah, the point is that is pretty obvious, for the reasons that might be, is not much believable Cuba could have developed a safe and/or effective vaccine so soon, but that's beyond the point. I think they have accepted it's going to be a large trial with us.

Even if Maduro says they are taking whatever and shooting everyone else with Pfizer, it's more than a little suspicious and worrisome why they are segregating who they vaccine with what.


EDIT: For clearness.

[Rolan7]

I got my first jab yesterday (technically it's after midnight, so day before yesterday), finally.  Woo!

Would have been sooner, but for months I was feeling like I shouldn't take a dose that other people could use.  And then for a lot of last month I was in a really weird state.

I did instantly feel more focused once I got the Moderna, which was obviously just relief from being so afraid of the, ah, needle.

It was barely noticeable, like the flu shot!  Nothing to be afraid about.  It's such a strange phobia...  I think wearing my mask helped.  With my eyes closed and mask on, I was able to be somewhere else.  Seriously, I barely felt it happen.  My hands were literally jittering as I filled out the intake form, at my local hardware store.  I was so anxious.  But it was nothing.

It was mildly more sore than any other flu vaccine, I think, but my mom insisted on visiting and giving me some offbrand advil which took the edge off.  I shouldn't have waited so long.

[Sirus]

I imagine that part of the reason you barely felt it is that the injection personnel have been getting a lot of practice lately.

[Jopax]

So in a bit of a hillarious twist the vaccination situation in the Balkans has been completely flipped on its head.

From the initial panic due to lack of vaccines, the shitshows that happened in procuring laughably small stocks of said vaccines to now having countries like Serbia and Croatia offering literal money to people if they go and get their shots, all in a span of less than a year.

There's even a report of some guy in Serbia going around and getting 6 shots just to collect the incentive 6 times, which, for their economic situation turns out to be a fairly sizeable chunk of money.