My First COVID vaccination

What a load of bollocks he writes.

I noticed who posted it and…didn’t waste my time.

My vaccination (Moderna) is booked for “about the 21st”. The local chemist will call me to specify the exact date and time.

I have luckily not experienced Covid so far. I am grateful to all those who are getting their vaccinations. Entertaining conspiracy theories is for the empty-headed and the selfish. As Pindar said:
φθονος κενεαφρονων  ’εταιρος ανδρων.

Conspiracy theorists would be fine. Theories have to fit the facts at least reasonably well, while explaining something that isn’t better explained elsewhere.

It’s conspiracy fantasists that get my goat. Don’t flatter them by calling them theorists.

This Covid seems different – in that if you are exposed multiple times it gets worse – where people in hospitals usually would get a degree of immunity.

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In my humble opinion if you get the chance get the Jab – note all vaccines have a risk.

Look at what is written on the various pill packets for a idea of the list of no no’s

This Covid seems different – in that if you are exposed multiple times it gets worse – where people in hospitals usually would get a degree of immunity.

From comments by clinicians, the whole thing comes down to “viral loading”¹.

What people are used to, and that includes hospital staff, is a low level exposure to many of the common viruses. New staff tend to have multiple illnesses in the first 6-12 months, and then they are generally OK.

SARS-COV-2 is brand new, no one has the low level exposure, so the exposure level required for an active infection is lower.

In my case, I’m reasonably certain that an evening shopping trip at a time reserved for NHS staff exposed me to one or more asymptomatic staff. (3 paramedics and a couple of nurses, plus others)

In my humble opinion if you get the chance get the Jab – note all vaccines have a risk

To quote from one news article:
Speaking on the Today Programme, Professor Ferguson said: “It’s important to say that most people being hospitalised at the moment with this variant, and with any Covid variant, are unvaccinated.”

Closer to home for me, recent stats have for our locality show no hospitalised Covid sufferers that have had one or more vaccination shots. If that doesn’t convince people, nothing will.

¹ Apparently one of our virologists is a leading light in the field.

The use of masks – (which at the beginning was frowned upon) I Presume that the virus is so small that it has to hitch a lift to travel any distance.

So for ordinary peasants crude masks work.

Just had my first hit.

He rubbed my arm and I was “oh crap oh crap” and then he said “c’est fait” and I replied “quoi?!”.

For non French speakers, he said it’s done and I was like “you what?”.

Didn’t feel a thing.

What happened afterwards was weird, though.

My hands felt cold, and pins and needles. Not the affected arm (had it done in the right as I’m a leftie), both of them.
The rest of me feels fine.

I’m home now, it’s an hour later and my hands are still tingly. I’m not wheezing, wetting myself, throwing up, convulsing, or anything like that. Just tingly hands.

Which is kind of weird.

Anyway, after sitting quietly for a little while (and buying a charity teddy bear), I decided that what I really wanted was chocolate. So I’m home, sitting in the sun, about to stuff eight sticks (two packs) of Kit Kat into me. ☺

Presume that the virus is so small

The virus is so small that it isn’t optically visible.

The picture of the spiky thing that you might have seen was done with one of those electron microscope gizmos. And it took a while because it was like finding a needle in a haystack.
You could literally figuratively have a few thousand of them on your finger tips and not know.

Human spermatozoa (if you ever looked at that with a microscope) is about 55 microns, most of that being the tail. The female human egg is massive in comparison, about 120 microns.
Human hair is about 70 microns diameter.
People generally cannot see things less than 40 microns.
Airborne pollen is about 15 microns. You see it accumulated but you don’t tend to see it wafting through the air.
Respiratory droplets (every time somebody breathes out) is around 7 microns.
The original ARM chipset used a 2 micron process, where each transistor (there were 27,000 of them) was that small.
1 micron is about the limit of optical microscopes.
Smoke particles (that can hang in the air for days) around around 0.5 microns.
Coronavirus is 0.1-0.3 microns.
For comparison, there are 1000 microns in a millimetre.

And to really blow your mind, your average modern processor contains about a billion (or so) transistors. In order to fit them all in, processor fabrication sizes have shrunk over the years. Cutting edge silicon is made on a 7nm process. That means they’re capable of mass producing devices where the individual transistors are 0.007 microns in size.

Using a 7mn chip fab, we would need an area of around 25 microns in which to hold the three and a half thousand transistors in the 6502. That correlates to something around about six microns across. So we could easily fit a 6502 onto pollen particles.
As for the human egg? Well I reckon there’s space for about a hundred and sixty thousand transistors. Forget fitting a Beeb into that, one might be able to squeeze in the entire original ARM chipset!

I’m home now, it’s an hour later and my hands are still tingly. I’m not wheezing, wetting myself, throwing up, convulsing, or anything like that. Just tingly hands.

Under the heading of “Uncommon (may affect up to 1 in 100)” and after the main five items:
“In clinical trials there were very rare reports of events associated with inflammation of the nervous system, which may cause numbness, pins and needles, and/or loss of feeling. However, it is not confirmed whether these events were due to the vaccine”

However, it is not confirmed whether these events were due to the vaccine”

Came on almost immediately, so I’d say “kind of yeah”.

Thanks for the confirmation. Seems to be settling down. It is not confirmed whether that’s due to large amounts of comfort chocolate. ;)

BTW. That was a quote from the AstraZeneca vaccine leaflet

Seems to be settling down. It is not confirmed whether that’s due to large amounts of comfort chocolate. ;)

Balanced diet covering all five¹ of the food groups is your best bet :)

PS. Christine says: “Do your keys stick to you now?” ;)

¹ Fat, Fibre, Carbohydrate, Protein and Chocolate

Get it right; meat, potatoes, chocolate and alcohol.

Well, we all knew there had to be more data on the Pfizer & Moderna vaccines, and it seems the info from Israel finally got out

So there you go, downsides with those too. The most interesting part is the reference to Israel as a “test tube” and having results that might not fit their PR, Pfizer & Moderna delayed/buried the info.
Obviously, those vaccines are best not used on young people, particularly young males.

We did cover the risk factors and risk groups stuff earlier as I recall.

It is interesting that the so called ‘Spanish Flu’ seemed to start in the trenches of WW1 – it seemed to target around 20 year olds.

Seeing both sides were playing around with Gas weapons etc !!!

Probably effectively finished the War.

It is interesting that the so called ‘Spanish Flu’ seemed to start in the trenches of WW1 – it seemed to target around 20 year olds.

It apparently originated with a farmhand from the mid-west of the USA who volunteered, and was posted to field kitchens in France. From there…

Well, we all knew there had to be more data on the Pfizer & Moderna vaccines

Of course. We’ll find some horrible side effects in the J&J vaccine once it’s been around long enough for dots to be joined.

So there you go, downsides with those too.

As I point out in the talkie video that I made (on my blog today), even something as seemingly innocuous as Amoxycillin (often prescribed by dentists) has side effects including seizures. Too much Paracetamol (Acetaminophen in America) causes liver failure. Mild continual overdosing has the same effect, just over a greater period of time and often with non-specific symptoms so it can easily be missed until it’s too late. Too much Vick’s VapoRub especially if put near to the nose (and moreso on children) can cause camphor poisoning. It’s potentially fatal.

There is a risk with things like that. It comes down to a decision as to whether you’d rather risk it with the vaccination or the virus. There’s no third option unless you are self-sufficient, living up a mountain, and don’t plan on interacting with other humans (or anything they have touched in the past 3-4 days) at all, ever.

Pfizer & Moderna delayed/buried the info.

Are you certain this was malicious? Look for how long there was disagreement about whether or not AsZen was responsible for blood clots. When something like this happens, the irresponsible act is to say “Moderna makes your heart blow up!”. It’s better to put this as a “possible maybe” and wait for further data before making a proper correlation.

Yes, it may, it seems. This is now a known known, and a rare side effect. Which, like the fact that AsZen is restricted to older people over here, may well affect who the vaccine is best aimed at. This shouldn’t be a surprise, mind you. People are so varied.

What I find interesting is that the mRNA shots don’t actually give you the virus itself, they’re the encoding of the spike protein that the virus uses to attach itself (which is why these vaccines are considered effective against the current variations, because while the virus itself might change slightly, the spike protein doesn’t appear to be different). Anyway, I wonder what part of the process has the potential side effect of upsetting the heart.
Especially given as Covid itself seems to be causing a lot of heart damage.

I wonder what the underlying mechanisms are.
People are complicated.

From there…

The original viral explosion in France last Spring was a big religious gathering. The current problems in India are due to millions doing some sort of religious thing involving bathing in the Ganges.
All it takes is a dose of stupid (mass gatherings during a pandemic) compounded by even more stupid (god will save me / Trump said “fake news”) and it’s a recipe for disaster.

India’s widespread cultural belief in karma don’t help a bit. Nor does widespread lack of education. Fact is, USA culture, while different, has similar problems, and the UK is heading the same way at breakneck speed.

All it takes is a dose of stupid

There is no cure for that one.

American farm hand – I suppose it as good as a Bat pooping on a Paladin!