Got the shot

[Eadwine Rose]

Jealous alright. Over here, I'm in the very last group. Not up till likely June

[JayM]

I don't even have an idea when I can get mine. They're just starting the second round. Round 1 was for first-responders, medical workers, hospital staff and caregivers. Round 2 is for senior citizens, though I think children may also be getting vaccinated. They're doing those who are most vulnerable first, which is fine with me. The more other people are vaccinated the safer I am anyway. I suppose I'll be in the "general population" category, so maybe another month or two.

[Utopia]

Got my first shot of AstraZeneca a few days ago, no serious side effects. One day of flu-like symptoms and two days of sleep to get back to normal.
Henry

[AK-47]

The more other people are vaccinated the safer I am anyway.

Nope. Vaccines do not prevent pathogen transmission, but allow one's immune system to defend against them. Don't let your guard down.

[JayM]

The more other people are vaccinated the safer I am anyway.

Nope. Vaccines do not prevent pathogen transmission, but allow one's immune system to defend against them. Don't let your guard down.

Herd immunity begs to differ. If the vast majority of a population is immune to a particular pathogen it can't spread and eventually dies out due to a lack of hosts (like smallpox) or it mutates to something no longer harmful to humans.

I still mask up whenever I go out of my gate, wear a face shield if going "out" out like to a mall rather than just in my own neighborhood, practice social distancing and wash my hands for 20 seconds a lot and don't plan to stop. There are those variations and mutations, plus this has taught us (or should have) that another new virus that we have no immunity to could come along any time just as medical scientists have been saying for decades. They even made a film about it in 1971: The Andromeda Strain.

[AK-47]

This particular vaccine is of a different design though (mRNA type) so who knows whether herd immunity theory applies here. Maybe it does and maybe it doesn't (as many who are considered experts claim), but one thing is certain: viruses have this annoying habit of evolving.
A mask won't do much for you though, unless it's a good quality N95 or similar grade. A face shield will be useless in that sense. New viruses come and go, but there's no reason to become an agoraphobic or go excessive, though good hygiene should be maintained regardless.
As for social distancing: I'm quite good at that myself, and have been practicing for decades. I prefer staying at least 15 metres away from morons, though occasionally slip ups do occur.

[Kulmbacher]

Have a look to India B1.617 und South Africa B1.351 mutationes. Sounds not really good.
New England Journal of Medicine

Friday morning got first Astra, slight pain in the arm in the evening.
But, we have the right painkiller Astra brewery - St. Pauli
and i got tired ;-)

[JayM]

This particular vaccine is of a different design though (mRNA type) so who knows whether herd immunity theory applies here. Maybe it does and maybe it doesn't (as many who are considered experts claim), but one thing is certain: viruses have this annoying habit of evolving.
A mask won't do much for you though, unless it's a good quality N95 or similar grade. A face shield will be useless in that sense. New viruses come and go, but there's no reason to become an agoraphobic or go excessive, though good hygiene should be maintained regardless.
As for social distancing: I'm quite good at that myself, and have been practicing for decades. I prefer staying at least 15 metres away from morons, though occasionally slip ups do occur.

Only two vaccines are RNA, Moderna and Pfizer. The rest are protein, viral vector, inactivated virus, etc. https://www.philstar.com/lifestyle/heal ... de-effects. Any vaccine that prevents you from getting SARS-COV-2 will also prevent you from being able to spread it. It's airborne so it gets spread by coughing, sneezing and breathing on people at close range. If you don't have it because you're immune to it you can't spread it. It can't survive in your body long enough because your covid 19 antibodies kill it. If 94% of a population is immune the remaining 6% who can't be vaccinated for whatever reason are reasonably safe, and in time the virus will be eradicated.

Masks aren't so much to prevent getting sick as they're not that effective at that, they're more to keep our germs to ourselves should we get sick and prevent spreading our diseases to others. They're akin to herd immunity: only effective if the vast majority wear them. I use the face shield because required by law when riding in any public transport and for entry into many businesses.

Anyway, this is getting off-topic. We're supposed to just be saying what vaccine we got and what side-effects if any we felt, not discussing the efficiency of particular ones or other anti-Covid 19 measures.

[xaol]

i had my 1st pfizer shot yesterday afternoon. eventually injection site pain built until it was significant enough to limit my arm movement. it felt like someone walloped me good and made sleeping a bit uncomfortable, but luckily is only a minor tenderness about 36 hours later.

[richb]

Anyway, this is getting off-topic. We're supposed to just be saying what vaccine we got and what side-effects if any we felt, not discussing the efficiency of particular ones or other anti-Covid 19 measures.

I agree with this comment by JayM. Unless you are an infectious disease doctor let us only say whether we are vaccinated and what the side effects were. And even if a doctor this is not the appropriate site to be discussing the technical aspects of the virus and vaccines.