I'll get the covid vaccine when...
 

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.

Better be careful around ladders and do you prefer broccoli or spinach if you fall? :)

Are you thinking healthcare staff are worried, as opposed to a regular person staying in their house for 11 months. :popcorn:

HUH? Please translate. I tried Google translate and it didn't help. I have absolutely no idea what your point is/was assuming you were actually responding to my questionable "vegetable ?humor?" in the 2nd post. ;)

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....

Do as you wish but was not that hard to go to myvaccine put us on a list for three counties and than get the first shot two weeks ago.

Definitely is easier that way. I just had my 2nd shot today set up at my hospital through my doctor. Very easy and organized.

I just got a call from Synexus, I pre-qualify for a Covid vaccine study. Next week we'll have a phone appointment to find out if I qualify for the next step. This is pretty interesting news, since I'm not eligible for a normal appointment - I'm under 65, and not at risk, and no longer an essential worker (I retired in December). So I might end up being a (paid? not paid? No idea yet) guinea pig for a new covid vaccine!

Coming soon to doctor or pharmacist near you! Johnson and Johnson!

Some Are getting CSD. ( COVID stress disorder)

CONGRATS on your retirement, OOB. Good for you!

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

You are 1100 times more likely to die from it than a group of people who are between 5 and 17 according to this graph from the CDC. My age group is worse than that. I do not care what you decide but I am sure there are several people who wish you would increase your odds simply because they love you.

Risk for COVID-19 Infection, Hospitalization, and Death By Age Group | CDC

I would imagine anybody that smoked, drinks, and on drugs legal or none legal odds go up especially if they have congestion problems in lungs? If and when I am able to get the shot I hope If I get COVID it at least reduced the symptoms, at 70 and smoker until early 20s I feel my lungs are compromised.

Good luck

I'm glad you are willing to take the chance. What about other folks that you might infect and kill?

Agree. Can make no sense of these responses.

You do know that “outside” the sun kills most of these pathogens in 30 seconds, right!

Conventional wisdom says get whatever shot that is available to you ASAP. It’s all about odds and stats. Every day you go without the vaccine the greater the chances that will contract the virus and suffer its full effects.

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?

Just sign up once
 

Why don’t you just sign up on one site and wait for them to call you. You don’t have to run around the state, just wait and they will tell you to go someplace close. Be smart!

I am sad for those who continue to want to perpetuate so much fear in people ...... what a way for people in the final years of their lives to waste away.

I think the people who love me - have more than appreciated that I travelled to see them - to spend time with them and to make memories with the grand kids - over this past year when so many have told us to stay inside - stay away from your loved ones .... you see we are all destined to die - for many of us - sooner than later..... Covid or no Covid.

Nope, haven’t received the vaccine yet - but, I take care of my self and I do not live in fear (and before anyone shames me - yes, always wear a mask and distance where I have to!)

In my opinion - I place my priorities - where I think they are important and what is most important to my loved ones .... being with them...... being able to see their smile and their eyes..... laughing with them.... crying with them ....holding their hands. Fear of something like Covid —- *** or, better yet ... let me put it this way ——— fear in death itself** —— will never prevent me from spending time with loved ones.

Hahahaha. Where do we send condolences to?

Well you can have a survival rate of 99%, but you'll have 8 weeks of hell in the hospital. I've had my two shots.

Let us know how THAT works out for you and all the other guinea pigs:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

No excuses
 

Find the time to get a shot. Turn off the TV.

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

If you're waiting for it to show up in Physician's offices, it'll be a long wait.

Most Docs don't have the refrigeration necessary to store the vaccine...

There is also the fact that something 80% of covid deaths had chronic Vitamin D deficiency. If you're walking around with 18ng/ml or less of this vital hormone, you might want to cower in your basement. Anyone else over 30ng/ml might be getting the sniffles. There are hundreds of thousands of data points from Randomized, double blind studies that all show this same thing. Get sun or supplement with D and don't die from Covid. Go figure, wouldn't know it from the NIH though, too busy pushing Remdesivir I guess.

No, too "busy" pushing real science and medicine, not voodoo nutrition crap. Where did you get those numbers from, the "Northern Bulgarian Journal of Holistic Nutrition and Bartending"?????:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

You think that is funny? What is wrong with you? Everything he said is the truth.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.