[GeriS]

Originally Posted by kcrazorbackfan

Well, whatever. I guess it something everyone needed to know. I’m 67 also and decided to get the shot to up my odds of not getting the virus.

To each their own....

So do you know you can still get it, spread it to others & are supposed to wear a mask or two & social distance? Did you knowingly you wanted to modify your DNA?

[jabacon6669]

Wife and I got our second shots yesterday at Groveland. Went at about 12:30pm. no lines, in and out in less than one hour. No appointments needed. Yesterday they were giving second shots only.

[Oneiric]

Best of Luck to you. A 51 yr. old acquaintance in Georgia did all of that, had no risk factors, was not diabetic, or overweight, but died.

[Footer]

Way too inconvenient going to the doctor. Much easier taking my golf cart to Publix where there is no wait and I can pick up some groceries after the shot.

[Hifred]

Originally Posted by Leadbone1

Got my first shot a half a mile from my house here in the villages. Second one coming in less than two weeks right here in Sumter. I wish more people realized that this virus is 99% plus survivable. I don’t wear a mask unless I’m going to a doctors office. Don’t wash my hands all the time and I don’t avoid crowds or doing things with people. I think the media and the supposed experts who have been all over the place on this have turned the average person into paranoid compliant robots. Just yesterday morning heard an epidemiologists state that the masks that 95% of the public is wearing are useless and nothing more than a psychological crutch. I just shake my head daily watching people driving around in their golf carts and in their cars with a mask on their face? How long before this insanity ends?

Tell that to the 500,000+ families of those who have died from Covid. Masks do help to stop the spread. Viral load peaks in the days before symptoms begin and speaking is enough to expel virus-carrying droplets. We can’t tell who’s infected you can’t look in a crowd and say, oh, that person should wear mask. There’s a lot of asymptomatic infection, so everybody has to wear a mask. If you read medical and science journals there is much evidence that wearing a mask reduces risk. We can't put links on this website but if you go to pubmed and search Face Masks Against COVID-19: An Evidence Review you can see what University and medical experts have found in their studies on the subject.

[jabacon6669]

Wife and I got our second shots yesterday at Groveland. Went at about 12:30pm. no lines, in and out in less than one hour. No appointments needed. Yesterday they were giving second shots only.

[jbrown132]

Originally Posted by Mortal1

it becomes available at my doctors office. I'll not be chasing it around the state. To all you that do....kudos.

I'm 67 and my survival rate is above 99%. I've a better chance of falling off a ladder and becoming a vegetable. So I'll stay off of ladders, wear a mask where required, wash my hands frequently, use sanitizer(75% alcohol), avoid crowds out of doors, sneeze and cough into my arm and use ridiculously common sense to be safe.

Best of luck to all.

You may be waiting a long time. I talked to my doctor about this and he said he had no idea when if ever he would get vaccine to distribute.

[juscause]

Originally Posted by Mortal1

it becomes available at my doctors office. I'll not be chasing it around the state. To all you that do....kudos.

I'm 67 and my survival rate is above 99%. I've a better chance of falling off a ladder and becoming a vegetable. So I'll stay off of ladders, wear a mask where required, wash my hands frequently, use sanitizer(75% alcohol), avoid crowds out of doors, sneeze and cough into my arm and use ridiculously common sense to be safe.

Best of luck to all.

Well, this post makes no sense at all to me. If we lined up 100 people in a firing squad knowing one of them would be killed, I'd sure be a lot happier if they then changed the rules and decided to add another 900 people to the mix. Your chance of dying at 1 in a hundred seems oh so very real. At 1 in a thousand, not so much. I'd say this poster isn't nearly as in love with life as I am.

[JanetMM]

Originally Posted by coffeebean

CONGRATS on your retirement, OOB. Good for you!

Did you sign up with Synexus? Actually, I haven't heard of them. Keep us posted.

Synexus is right in TV by Culver’s on 466.

[Cheapbas]

Interesting story on the news last night about a 40 something healthy marathon runner that was flown into UCF for a double lung transplant after contracting COVID. There’s a perfect example of 99% survival rate.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

What gives you THAT idea????? The overwhelming number of COVID positive patients have no symptoms whatsoever. Those that do generally have a flu-like illness for several days. Only the sickest of the sick end up in the hospital/ICU/dead

I hate to say it, but IMO most likely the sickest of sick was probably going to go anyway?

[DAVES]

Originally Posted by Mortal1

it becomes available at my doctors office. I'll not be chasing it around the state. To all you that do....kudos.

I'm 67 and my survival rate is above 99%. I've a better chance of falling off a ladder and becoming a vegetable. So I'll stay off of ladders, wear a mask where required, wash my hands frequently, use sanitizer(75% alcohol), avoid crowds out of doors, sneeze and cough into my arm and use ridiculously common sense to be safe.

Best of luck to all.

There is no shortage of confusing and conflicting information.

Fortunately, the psychologists have a term for it. Agoraphobia-fear of leaving your home.

All of life is a risk.

Back to the real world. It will be a long time before your doctor gets vaccines. I've read that they only sell them in lots of 600 plus.

Vaccines? We will shortly be awash in them. Pfizer one of the first, has recently come out with one that does not require the ultra low storage and shipping. Also, they are talking about needing boosters in a year.

Future? We've taken the first dose of Pfizer and are due for the second next week.
Follow ups? Will boosters also be paid for? Will it be like the flu shot? You go into a grocery store get the shot for free and they give you a store credit?

People's reaction? The proper term is panic.

[Dbraisted]

I lost my close friend ...68... here in the Villages ..2 days on the ventilator.

[DAVES]

Originally Posted by Topspinmo

I hate to say it, but IMO most likely the sickest of sick was probably going to go anyway?

That is of course true. Far as healthcare, No one gets out alive and yet we do not dare to see reality. I recall reading years ago that 80% of healthcare expense goes to people who are terminally ill. However, reality is since no one gets out alive, we are all terminally ill.

[SacDQ]

Don’t look back your not headed in that direction!