One Down…[DOT 3/4/21]

3/4/21 MegMegMcGee 53

Hey gang! I signed up for weekend duty which was probably poor planning on my part.

Yesterday I got my first vaccine shot at 4PM. I was literally yawning in the car on the way home. It is currently (checks time) 1:48AM and I just woke up from a Nap with a capital N in all my clothes, teeth not brushed, glasses still on my face, in a panic because I forgot to do the DOT. [Apologies in advance for the Tweet heaviness!]

My arm hurts like a motherfucker and I can’t keep my eyes open, but other than that I feel alright. Here’s a sampling of my true personality for you: after my shot, I got in the car and promptly lost my vaccination card. I’m sure it will turn up; it has to be in the car somewhere and I will look later today.

I don’t have much of an idea of what is going on today, so you’ll have to fill me in while we wait for Brain Drain and the gardening post. Wishing you all a great Saturday and Easter weekend, if that is your jam.

OK, I totally missed this today. WTF.

I read this wrong and thought Gaetz resigned. Tick Tock Motherfucker.

This poor bastard.

Sprots!

Should probably save this for Brain Drain, coming up, but as far as I’m concerned this is NEWS.

What else did I miss?

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    • Now – we just need Marvel/Disney and Netflix to pull shows – even though the Ga gop might not care because they just think all movie people are Hollywood communists.
       
       

      • Are you in Georgia? Apparently, and I never knew this until recently, GA provides lavish subsidies to the film industry to entice them to film there. I must have read this “The Hollywood Reporter” or something because it was a short article about whether Hollywood should boycott Georgia. As an aside, they threw in that Apple CEO Tim Cook supported the “voting reform” laws but then did a 180 and is now against them. What does Apple have to do with Georgia? I’ve never been but even I know that Delta and Coca-Cola are HQ’d there, so they might fear a backlash, but I thought Apple products were produced by child labor in Asia and never realized that Georgia has its own film industry.

        • @mattycrawley – Hi, I just saw this. Yes, I’m in GA and yes there are huge film subsidies to get work here. There are so many shows here that there aren’t enough people to staff them – it doesn’t matter if you’re good – shows right now just need someone to show up. At this point, any show that is not in Los Angeles is probably heavily subsidized – movie producers and studios only go to states that have some kind of incentive. I used to live in Wilmington, NC and we were always worrying about our jobs depending on who was running the legislature.
          Georgia is pretty solid incentive wise – but most LA people think we’re hicks here – so I’m surprised that we haven’t heard anything yet. Kemp and the GA republicans really are a bunch of entitled white people who think they know more than any of us.  I think there should be a boycott  – republicans only understand money when it’s taken from their wallets. 

  3. welp over here its business as usual as just a few weeks after reelecting the same assholes theres already trouble
    turns out other politicians are surprised a politician is a lying asshole
    (really…you’d think having spent a career being a lying fuckwit politician they would have worked out it isnt just them doing it…but apparently not)
    https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/04/christenunie-rules-out-a-new-coalition-with-rutte-as-prime-minister/
    its especially funny coming from the godbotherers

  4. I think part of enjoyment of Gaetz-gate is a lot of people wish that this were Trump going down in flames. 
    Gaetz is the next best thing as Gaetz is the over eager over confident dipshit henchman who thought they could never gaetz him.  He Gaetz himself.

    • Quote from Matt Gaetz’ book, Firebrand: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the MAGA Revolution:
       
      “I have an active social life, and it’s probably easier in the era of Trump. We’ve had ‘perfect family man’ presidents before, after all, and many of those men sold out our country, even if their wives were happy the whole time. If politicians’ family lives aren’t what really matter to the voters, maybe that’s a good thing. I’m a representative, not a monk.”

      • Quote from the Daily Mail (where do we stand on the Daily Mail, British friends? Is it legit? I have enough trouble keeping track of US tabloids): 
         
        “… Joel Greenberg allegedly turned against him [Matt Gaetz] and is cooperating with the investigation into Gaetz’s alleged sex crimes.”
         
        It says he’ll be indicted in the next few weeks. Certainly seems plausible at this point. 

        • …the “daily mail reader” stereotype is somewhat unflattering to be honest…it’s a sort of mixture of obsessive coverage of the royals & a kind of nimby-ish tendency sometimes referred to as a “little england” mentality

          …many moons ago I recall there being an edition of the daily mail which gave over the whole front page to princess di breaking a heel on a shoe while out to dinner…& somewhere around page 4 “200 die in freak air accident”…so…yeah…pretty sure it was a pro-brexit rag, too…& generally a fan of the tories?

          • Most British media is behind a paywall but I occasionally read the DM and The Guardian (two very different experiences) just to keep up with my British friends.  I think the DM is more populist than anything, and the comments section is best avoided (they have a lot of rabid Trump supporters, both from their vast American readership and in Britain itself, which I think is strange, because it would be rare to meet an American who has an opinion about Corbyn or Starmer or BoJo, or even know who any of them are.) 
             
            It’s the same with the Canadian press. Everyone I know in Canada knows perfectly well who the American president is, whether it be Obama or Trump or Biden, but if you stopped 100 Americans on the street I guarantee you that 90% or more couldn’t tell you the name of Justin Trudeau, nor did they know that the leader of Canada is called a Prime Minister, not a President.

            • …I can’t prove it but I’ve long suspected a big overlap in commenters on the guardian & the daily mail…in the sense that people will read one in the morning & then spend their lunch hour trolling the other?

              …I have thus far resisted the temptation to actually comment on the guardian but I recall an account on kinja that solely re-posted daily mail comments…which I found funny…but I think confused a lot.of people

    • Damn. I never read The Beauty Myth in full, only excerpts (by the time I was in college taking some gender courses, there was already some recognition of how messed up her parallels to race and concentration camps were), but that’s still disappointing. Seems like the crazy was always there. But still, that she’d be cool hanging with misogynists like Carlson and Jones…

      • There was something about that wave of feminists.  Some of them seemed to be just looking for things to be angry about.  Others seemed to be trolling, like the feminist versions of Ann Coulter.  And then there was Andrea Dworkin.  Oy.
         
        Of course, there was alsothe irony that the person who wrote “The Beauty Myth” was………pretty classically beautiful, and seemed to embrace it.

        • Second wave? I feel like it laid a lot of really important groundwork for progress, but the ideas needed to get developed further. There was a lot of righteous anger, but it sometimes got misdirected. I’d say the same for Dworkin in particular. I can’t say I agree with a lot of her ideas as written, but I think some of her work held value in terms of introducing a different point of view that pushed later thinkers to consider things from a different angle.
           
          I wouldn’t say it’s ironic that the writer of The Beauty Myth was classically beautiful though. The focus on women’s beauty is pretty harmful to all women, whether they’re usually considered beautiful by others or not. 

      • I graduated college in ‘96 and The Beauty Myth was all the rage. I remember girls in my dorm being obsessed with it. I must have read parts of it, but I don’t recall. 

  9. Sorry to hear you are getting the more serious side effects.
    I was starting to feel a bit guilty at work yesterday, since we were all talking about the side effects, and pretty much everyone had fevers, malaise, fatigue, headaches, etc. for 3-7+(!) days, and then they come around to me, and I’m like: “uh, I was kinda tired yesterday, but that’s just as likely to be from my dumb ass staying up late all week and not getting enough sleep…”
    Anyways, when I was sitting in the 15minute waiting area, I saw one of the staff run after someone who left something under their chair, I strongly suspect it was their vaccination card.  So you aren’t the only, or even the first to misplace your card.

    • So far I haven’t met anyone who had more than a sore arm. I heard of people milking it to take time off work — two of my wife’s employees took off DAYS (in advance) to “recuperate.” As you may be able to tell, I find booking time off in advance for possible side effects to be … dubious at best. 

      • I mean, it’s a pretty significant portion of people who get hit with side effects. I know several people who were down for the count the day after vaccine 2. I’m sure there are people who are milking it (especially if they say the side effects are lasting more than one day), but others are definitely getting the full body aches, fever and chills… My cousin and sister included, both of whom work in the medical field and I trust them to report these things accurately. 

        • Oh, I have no doubt that people are experiencing side effects. And I’m perfectly sympathetic to those taking time off when they actually do. But these people are basically taking extended weekends using sick time, not vacation time. Saying “I’m going to have side effects” a week in advance earns a side-eye from me. On the positive side, at least they’re allowing my wife to plan for it, rather than just calling in. Though I’d be willing to be that at least two will call in after their planned “side-effect” time has ended. 

        • Same here, on the “folks personally known who went down for the count”😉
          Most of my coworkers who got their shots–whether Moderna or Pfizer–had at least a day or two after that second shot, where they felt like HELL. 
           
          And heck, in my case, that extra stress on my system seems to have tipped me over from “on the edge of getting it” to actually *having* a bout of pancreatitis…
           
          I talked with my NP this week–we both are of the opinion that it didn’t actually cause the pancreatitis, but that there *is* a possibility that the additional stress load on my body meant that I wasn’t able to prevent the tipping point, like I most likely would have, had I not gotten the shot that particular week… since I’d had a few days in that previous week, where I’d had some “twinges” happen, which (in the past) were often the precursors to a bout–but which I’d *also* used in the past as warning signs,snd then managed to avoid bouts, by getting more rest/drinking more water/rating healthier foods.
           
          Co-worker wise, the one who’d had a diagnosed case of covid had it the worst out of all of us, with regard to her shots. She was sick, fever-y, and out a few days after both. Pretty much everyone else (with minor exceptions) just needed a day or two, to recover after the second shot, *maybe* one after the first.

          • Oof. I’m sorry. Stress can do some shitty things to the body.
             
            I was shocked that my husband had no side effects other than the sore arm (though he said his arm was spectacularly sore, and he could barely lift it at times). His immune system freaks out at the drop of a hat, but he did just fine with both shots. 

            • It really IS odd, isn’t it?😉🤣
               
              And I’m REALLY happy for your husband! Both that he’s all shotted-up, AND that it was just a sore arm!😁💖

              • Same! I just wish I could get my shot now. And that they’d get the kid version soon. Recent estimates I heard was teens this summer, 6 and up early 2022, younger kids “to follow” 😭

      • lol…  I booked two days off – one to get the vaccine, and one for potential side effects (that I did not get…), but that’s what pretty much everyone at my workplace did, with the ok/approval of our supervisors and such. 
        We were granted almost three weeks of covid-leave last year, and it’s set to expire this summer, and hopefully now that we’ve all been vaccinated, we won’t end up using any more of it, so I figure might as well burn a couple days of it for the vaccination.
        ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • Hey, if it’s sanctioned, take it. Where my wife works, it’s technically a violation of sick policy, though as a practical matter how could anyone tell? My job has paid time off, and you use it for what you need, no questions asked. But her employer still distinguishes between sick time and vacation time.
           
          The biggest problem is that she’s down two employees already (one has severe cancer and probably won’t ever be back to work and another has a broken leg) and they all know that. That’s 2 out of 10 people. So my wife is working 6-day weeks and 10-hour days to cover already. So the whole “I need three days for possible side effects” does not sit well with me. But they are following the rules, so nothing to be done. 

          • Oh, yeah, that’s a different situation, and I agree with you on that.
            My workplace is pretty chill, and someone taking off doesn’t really increase other’s workloads, it just sorta slows things down a bit that week.  It’s kinda hard for me to explain without getting into pointless details, but we sorta have an unofficial queue of projects to work through, but not on a set time frame, so we just work through things as they come up.  We’ve already got things slowed down a bit for various other COVID associated stuff, and I think the managers and supervisors are spending about half their time in zoom meetings, so I feel like there is a general acceptance/expectation that things are just going to be running a bit slower than normal lately.
            But, there is some hope of things opening up pretty soon, I was the last person to get vaccinated at my workplace, and while I haven’t checked recently, I think the local numbers/stats are looking promising.

      • It seems like in my greater social circle that people who were already heavily struggling with seasonal allergies are having the worst time with the side effects. My uneducated guess is their immune systems were already pissed off and then WHAM! vaccine to also deal with. 

        • My examples defy that theory. My sister has no allergies and was knocked out the next day. My husband has plenty of seasonal allergies, but no side effects other than the sore arm. Plus he has an overactive immune system, maybe some sort of autoimmune problem, and gets fevers every time he has a cold, but nothing with the vaccine. I’ll be very curious if we can figure out at some point who’s getting side effects more and why. 

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