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lyornI feel very foolish, and that is very good.
Yesterday I got my second COVID-19 vaccination jab with Astra Zeneca and with no drama at all. I love absence of drama.
Since my last posting on the topic, guidelines and handling have changed regulary (in this one of 16 federal states alone!), and all this drama (and AstraZeneca's past and present actions are not helping) has led to everyone wanting BioNTech/Pfizer, most are OK with Moderna, but people skip their vaccination appointments without cancelling for AZ. That's what rotten communication does.
So at the tail end of April, local handling was, "For f*ck's sake, anyone who wants AZ, give them the best info we have, a who-to-call in case of trouble, and get those jabs in those arms." Which, with a 7day per 100K incidence of about 170, is the reasonable thing to do.
Yesterday, Sunday, an hour before closing time, it was quiet in the vaccination centre. They just let everyone in as they came, provided they had an appointment for the day.
Guy at the registration scanned my code and said, "You'll get Moderna today."
I said, "I want Astra." (There is a joke here in German, since 'Astra' is a beer brand, though it's not well known in Bavaria. Try this in Hamburg.)
He said, "OK" and pinned a blue note to my clipboard.
Guy at the top of the stairs directed folks with no note (Moderna) to one line, folks with a yellow note (AZ and over 60) to another, and those with a blue one (AZ and under 60) to one of the two chairs in front of the "medical information" cubicle. Inside the cubicle was a young doctor who repeated what I already knew, we signed the consent sheet, and off to the very short yellow note line I was.
Five minutes later I was in the observation area, read a few pages, and was home 45 minutes after I left.
I really admire good organisation. Especially in service of a good cause.
Back home, I ate half the contents of the fridge, slept for 10 hours, and called in sick to work this morning after I had tried to feed oats to the cats, make coffee with no coffee powder, and brush my teeth with hand lotion. I obviously needed more sleep.
And that's it. Nothing of what I was worried about happened. (I still dislike very much how this whole thing has been handled.) I feel very foolish for all my drama, and quite content.
Now, if the Com-Cov study comes up with a >96 per cent efficacy of a mixed vaccine, I will feel even more foolish and even more content, because that would be very good news for everyone.
Yesterday I got my second COVID-19 vaccination jab with Astra Zeneca and with no drama at all. I love absence of drama.
Since my last posting on the topic, guidelines and handling have changed regulary (in this one of 16 federal states alone!), and all this drama (and AstraZeneca's past and present actions are not helping) has led to everyone wanting BioNTech/Pfizer, most are OK with Moderna, but people skip their vaccination appointments without cancelling for AZ. That's what rotten communication does.
So at the tail end of April, local handling was, "For f*ck's sake, anyone who wants AZ, give them the best info we have, a who-to-call in case of trouble, and get those jabs in those arms." Which, with a 7day per 100K incidence of about 170, is the reasonable thing to do.
Yesterday, Sunday, an hour before closing time, it was quiet in the vaccination centre. They just let everyone in as they came, provided they had an appointment for the day.
Guy at the registration scanned my code and said, "You'll get Moderna today."
I said, "I want Astra." (There is a joke here in German, since 'Astra' is a beer brand, though it's not well known in Bavaria. Try this in Hamburg.)
He said, "OK" and pinned a blue note to my clipboard.
Guy at the top of the stairs directed folks with no note (Moderna) to one line, folks with a yellow note (AZ and over 60) to another, and those with a blue one (AZ and under 60) to one of the two chairs in front of the "medical information" cubicle. Inside the cubicle was a young doctor who repeated what I already knew, we signed the consent sheet, and off to the very short yellow note line I was.
Five minutes later I was in the observation area, read a few pages, and was home 45 minutes after I left.
I really admire good organisation. Especially in service of a good cause.
Back home, I ate half the contents of the fridge, slept for 10 hours, and called in sick to work this morning after I had tried to feed oats to the cats, make coffee with no coffee powder, and brush my teeth with hand lotion. I obviously needed more sleep.
And that's it. Nothing of what I was worried about happened. (I still dislike very much how this whole thing has been handled.) I feel very foolish for all my drama, and quite content.
Now, if the Com-Cov study comes up with a >96 per cent efficacy of a mixed vaccine, I will feel even more foolish and even more content, because that would be very good news for everyone.
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Date: 2021-05-03 01:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-05-04 10:14 am (UTC)Now, should I end up with any of the scary side effects, I will be very annoyed at my rotten luck. But so far I'm fine.
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Date: 2021-05-04 08:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-05-04 10:11 am (UTC)I feel as if I'm the only person in Germany who actually *wanted* AZ when they could get mRNA. Or the only one following my reasoning that a) an expert near-consensus in a case like this is inferior to a good study, b) a known risk should be significantly higher than about 1:100.000 to replace it with an unknown risk on the strength of expert consensus alone. Anyway, I stand by it.
It's immensely annoying that doubting the effiacy of anything related to the vaccines has been near-monopolised by a horde of bullshitters, peddlers of woo, and conspiration fantatists, who in turn have been captured by the Neonazi movement. This is really a wet blanket on all discussion.
Some pharmacist seems to have raided the bins for the dregs in the vaccine ampullae and made a D30 homoeopathic remedy from that. If one scripted that for reality TV, it would get thrown out for absurdity.