I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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Oh, I surely love this one:
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Oh Happy Day!
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I had the opportunity to watch the signing of the bill. Dramatic contrast with the last 4 years: President Biden and Vice President Harris only ones there ( other than the limited number of news people who were mostly out of sight), no use of multiple pens to provide souvenirs, masks on all, no braggadocio. Wonderful!
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I know this is off topic for this thread but boy I would appreciate all good wishes for a vaccine tomorrow. My closest Walgreens is offering the J&J vaccine to walk ins tomorrow evening. They said to come anytime after 6. I plan to be there by 5:15 and am so praying to get it. My group isn't eligible for the vaccine until next Thursday and no one is even allowing sign ups for it yet. While I admit my first choice would be one of the other vaccines, I would be beyond thrilled and relieved to get the J&J tomorrow. If any of you have done walk in and have advice on how early to get there, please tell me! My husband was finally able to get an appointment for his first shot Saturday afternoon. Our 16 year old will be in the last group (even though she has CP...it isn't on the CDC list which is maddening). So please please send tons of good wishes and/or prayers into the universe for me to be vaccinated by this time tomorrow!
Update: So I called to see what time people usually start lining up. Turns out it really isn't a walk in, I was given wrong info...they have 5 vaccines and reserved them. That option wasn't given to me earlier. I started crying and I guess the lady felt bad for me and she took my name and number and said she would call me if they had any left over vaccines (of any kind). I can't believe how stressful this is!
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Darn it, cm! I really truly believe vaccines will open up very, very soon. Fingers crossed that they have some extra tomorrow!
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I wasn't home during Biden's speech, but just watched it now. What a refreshing change! Empathy, intelligence, truth telling......I do have hope for the future.
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It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation for new ones; too much money can put us out of touch with life; too much free time can dull the edge of the soul. We need sometimes to come very near the bone so that we can taste the marrow of life rather than its superfluities.
Joan Chittister
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cm, I am sorry to hear about what happened with the J & J vaccine. Hopefully, on Thursday you will be able ( while waiting ) to sign up in several places and surely one will come through -- hopefully sooner rather than later. I was thrilled to get mine, but was willing to wait because it has seemed that our sm. town has been mainly by-passed for a truly severe outbreak. All the cases we had were in the main ( when larger numbers were present ) in congregate settings. They were diligent in how they took care of those. Also, seemed like those cases not 'congregate' were handled strictly. I thought I could ( and hopefully would ) be safe if I had to wait a few more months. I'll pray that you are able to 'find' your vaccine soon.
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cm, as they say, the vaccine is the new toilet paper. Everyone's scrambling to get them. There's a good chance you will get called due to a cancellation, but if not, at least you can sign up next Thursday. That was smart of you to call, at least you learned the details before you went to all the effort to show up. Does your state have a website to sign up for the coronavirus vaccine? Ohio has one where you put in your zip code and it will pull up all the places in your area who are giving the vaccine. From there, you can sign up for any of them. Make sure to put your name on as many as you can. That's what I did.
About 12 hours after getting my shot on Wednesday, I had about 24 hours of side effects from the vaccine. Chills, mild fever, nausea, body aches, headache. Those were my symptoms when I had Covid. Also sore arm. Basically I felt like shit. Today I'm feeling way better.
I got the Moderna vaccine but wouldn't have hesitated to get the J&J one. First of all, just one shot. I will get a second shot but will no doubt experience side effects again. One shot eliminates a second round of that. And J&J has very good efficacy, better than the regular flu shot, which I get every year and never get the flu.
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Well, I have a lot to say. First, YAY to Joe Biden for signing the American Rescue Plan. And how wonderful to hear the goal is for vaccines to open up for everyone on May 1st. The man just keeps underpromising and overdelivering. It's a vey good strategy.
I read an article about how one line of Biden's address shows the biggest difference between him and former guy:
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Another article I read says there's a "Biden blitz" coming, where he, Jill, Harris and others will hit the road on a "campaign designed to draw attention to the benefits of the Covid-relief package". House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), a close Biden ally, said, "One of the—if not the biggest—mistakes that Obama made, in my opinion, was getting the Recovery Act done and not explaining to people what he had done."
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One Republican governor with balls often seems to do the right thing and that's Larry Hogan of Maryland. He supported Trump's impeachment. Following last night's address, Hogan put out a tweet thanking Biden: "I applaud President Biden for adopting several of our recommendations to increase the production of vaccines. We are prepared to administer every vaccine that the federal government can deliver. We are all in this together, and we will end this pandemic together," Hogan said."
Here's a second tweet from Hogan, whose wife Yumi Hogan is Korean American. I had to post the photo because, wow, what a beautiful family. Hogan thanked Biden for "speaking out against a rising tide of hate crimes and violence experienced by Asian Americans across the U.S."
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Oh and here is good news, which I am hopeful continues in this direction as our nation pulls out of the nosedive of a pandemic and people get involved in new things:
(From Axios)
For the first time in years, Donald Trump is starting to fade into the background, according to SocialFlow data tracking the number of clicks to news articles.
The big picture: During the first month of his post-presidency, Trump remained as discussed as he was when he was in office, when he dominated social and traditional media. His numbers have plunged the past couple weeks.
During the first four weeks after he left office, daily clicks to Trump articles — indexed to 100, based on highs and lows during the past year — averaged 53.
In the last two weeks, the average has fallen to 21.
By the numbers:Interest in Trump over the last year peaked during the week of the Jan. 6 Capitol siege, per the SocialFlow data. It was also high during election week and when he contracted the coronavirus.
Despite high viewership for Trump's CPAC speech, the day after the address marked his least-trafficked day dating back to January 2020.
The bottom line: After four years of being subsumed by Trump, the political and media worlds are adjusting to their new normal.
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Divine, your reaction to the vaccine sounds similar to my reaction to the second dose of Moderna, also received on Wednesday. The difference is that fatigue hit Wednesday evening, gi track still feels a bit off and I'm still a bit stiff today but much better than yesterday. It makes sense that you would have a similar reaction if you still have antibodies produced when you had Covid.
In addition to all the Biden positives already mentioned, I am thoroughly enjoying that he does not always have a phalanx of people surrounding him
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I’ve admired Hogan in his handling of the pandemic. There was a commercial on local TV about doing your part to curb the spread of covid. It ended with him wearing his mask and saying “Wear the damn mask.” I loved it. It was refreshing to see a republican doing what was right and following the science and not following along the party line.
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -George Eliot
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Thank you for the support! I managed to get an appointment for either Pfizer or Moderna for next Wednesday! I happened to be on the right website at the right time and signed up super fast. I admit that I won't believe it until I actually get it. It just seems too good to be true. But I am so excited. Also, it will be one year to the day that I had the U/S and diagnostic mammo and the radiologist told me she was certain it was cancerous and I needed a biopsy. My husband gets his first shot tomorrow afternoon.
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cm, wonderful to hear! And yes, it’s true, you will get that vaccine next week!
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A Facebook post from filmmaker Michael Moore:
As someone once said at another historic bill signing,"this is a big fucking deal" — at 2:09pm this afternoon, it happened again. Millions will now live, millions will temporarily rise out of poverty, millions won't be evicted, children will eat, schools will reopen. People who had been told that their "great employer-provided health insurance system" was better than Medicare for All, soon discovered that wasn't true once the pandemic hit and they were suddenly without health insurance because their job was gone. Now many will be covered in part or full by their government, thanks to this bill. That should expand and continue. There's help now for small businesses, non profits, and the arts. Working people have new protections. And nearly everyone is going to get a St. Patrick's Day check! Thank you Joe Biden! Thank you Democrats who finally stood their ground! Thank you to the 76% of the America public who demanded this bill become law.
Only two groups are unhappy this afternoon: The Coronavirus known as COVID-19 which is now going to choke on its own vomit as it desperately tries to find new hosts who simply won't be there to accommodate it, and the Republican politicians who will never, EVER be able to explain to the voters why they abandoned their fellow Americans and left them to suffer in misery and to die. But they did have time to participate in the sedition of January 6th. Why these Republicans didn't have a single new idea or proposal of their own to pull us out of this madness and instead couldn't stop fixating on Mr. Potato Head or Dr. Seuss!They were willing to let things get even worse in the hopes that would help them at the next election. Wow. A fatal mistake, an historic political blunder. The rest of the country will now move on as there is much work still to do — stopping voter suppression, raising the minimum wage, jobs, infrastructure, climate emergency, college debt, killing the filibuster, ending racist mass incarceration — and all sorts of racism and misogyny. Let's build on today's massive victory! Pedal to the metal, full speed ahead!
(P.S. Thank you Georgia. We couldn't have done this without you! We need more Georgias in 2022!)
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Here Are The Facts: Trump Deserves No Credit For The COVID Vaccine
The media and Republicans are trying to give Trump credit for the coronavirus vaccine, but the truth is the vaccines were in development months before Operation Warp Speed.
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cm -- great news and I'm really happy for you. With variants as well as covid to dory about, the sooner we all get vaccinated, the better. I'm wondering how many Reps. will just skip it. Or, maybe they won't. They might find out that the other guy actually got his and didn't bother to tell them. Anyway, I'm really happy for you. It is beginning to feel good to me to feel I have extra protection and am not just relying on a mask or distance. Not looking to get into a crowd of sick people mind you -- but good to know that one error won't mean your doomed possibly.
Divine, couldn't agree more with your entries. I am amazed at how inconsequential the Reps. look and seem. They have nothing going on period. Most of what they are up to seems like strange roadblocks meant to thwart and not help us and their fellow Reps./citizens. Frankly, they just seem rather insane while the Democrats appear relatively orchestrated and hard at work. If this keeps up '22 and '24 will be a run-away from the Reps.
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Is it even possible -- about this sucking thing I mean !!
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and for all those Reps.
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I hope a pregnant Army Ranger catches him in an alley and beats the crap out of him.
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Ruth.
I think there is more to it than this -- like things that closed down for the first covid shutdown etc. /still this too. Until all the refineries are running full tilt again, we could see gas prices that won't make us happy -- but we will get back to where we were.
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