COVID-19 2020

excontradiction wrote:

Julian, wrote:

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Is this the same in DC and MD?

Just got off the phone with our Silver Spring office – yes: smoking puts you in 1C in MD. I'll see if I can get someone on the phone in DC in a bit.

So if you claim that you're a smoker, do they actually check on that?

I really can't speak for every facility handing it out but I will say from personal experience this week that the pharmacy I got the shot at was really doing no employment verification. It was just "and who do you work for" and that was it. The link to get an appointment was mostly passed around thru health care circles but there would have been absolutely nothing stopping me from sending the sign up link to a buddy, them getting an appointment, throwing an $8 scrub top on and claiming to work for a doctors office and getting the shot.

Now, that said, I know of another clinic that was only injecting people who were in VAMS which required an authorized agent of a provider loading the employees into the system – that would be hard to fake your way through.

I bet the smoking thing will turn out the same way. Some places will be fastidious and make you bring a medical record where a doctor notes a history of smoking (or obesity, or COPD, or type 2 diabetes). Others will be more loosey goosey and just take people's word for it.

I will say to people wanting the vax ASAP – if you know of a place that is administering (not a facility but like a pharmacy) call them and ask about walk-ins if people cancel and shots are about to expire. Place I went was totally doing that. Between no shows (!!!!!) and people signing up and not knowing it was 1A only and being honest they're not health care workers, they said they have about 15 doses extra per day and if they can't reschedule waitlisters by end of week, they were first-coming, first-serving on Thursdays so they don't go to waste. My wife is calling like 5 places twice daily to see if she and some elderly neighbors who can drop everything and be there in ten minutes can get the shot too.

Wait… So if you're a smoker you get bumped up the list? Maybe bump them up for euthanasia (sorry hutch).

Yada wrote:
Wait… So if you're a smoker you get bumped up the list? Maybe bump them up for euthanasia (sorry hutch).

Yeah. Smoking is considered a pre-existing condition like asthma and bumps you to 1C-1 which is not getting the vax at this very second in DMV but will be soon.

It kinda tracks since COVID, obviously kills people through respiratory dysfunction, and if you smoke, you're way behind the 8 ball on that.

Panic-Button-hatch wrote:

Space wrote:

excontradiction wrote:

Space wrote:
I think it's funny that at least two people who have never met me or seen a picture of me have definitive ideas about what i look like!

I thought your pic was posted here once. Maybe that was fake news 🤷‍♂️

I'm not savvy enough to post a pic here. Nor do I care enough to bother figuring it out. If it was, someone else did it. Or posted a fake.

I think you may have posted it and you definitely looked like neil young in the photo

Well you've met me in person. Did I look like Neil Young? Or Jeff Tweedy?

I can see the Jeff Tweedy, because we have similar glasses and hair. (Though I'm probably 15 pounds over my ideal weight, and he's probably 40 pounds over his.)

Julian, wrote:

Yada wrote:
Wait… So if you're a smoker you get bumped up the list? Maybe bump them up for euthanasia (sorry hutch).

Yeah. Smoking is considered a pre-existing condition like asthma and bumps you to 1C-1 which is not getting the vax at this very second in DMV but will be soon.

It kinda tracks since COVID, obviously kills people through respiratory dysfunction, and if you smoke, you're way behind the 8 ball on that.

Does smoking weed multiple times daily count? Asking for a friend.

Space wrote:
Well you've met me in person. Did I look like Neil Young? Or Jeff Tweedy?

I can see the Jeff Tweedy, because we have similar glasses and hair. (Though I'm probably 15 pounds over my ideal weight, and he's probably 40 pounds over his.)

In that photo..NY for sure
IRL …maybe tweedy, but maybe joe walsh

Space wrote:

Julian, wrote:

Yada wrote:
Wait… So if you're a smoker you get bumped up the list? Maybe bump them up for euthanasia (sorry hutch).

Yeah. Smoking is considered a pre-existing condition like asthma and bumps you to 1C-1 which is not getting the vax at this very second in DMV but will be soon.

It kinda tracks since COVID, obviously kills people through respiratory dysfunction, and if you smoke, you're way behind the 8 ball on that.

Does smoking weed multiple times daily count? Asking for a friend.

That's a really good question I cannot determine a quick answer to. It would track that, yes, but again YMMV depending on if there are medical records of this and how stringent a fact checking the vaccination-providing facility is being.

Well I am being advised either I quit smoking 100% or get the vaccine

It’s such bullshit.. I was a smoker when she met me…way heavier

Now I smoke a cigarette I get read the riot act


Geezus


I don’t want to jump the line..

Does this mean I'm not going to get a vaccine for a long time?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01/15/trump-vaccine-reserve-used-up/

Save yourselves!!




400,000 dead Americans

I don’t envy Biden taking over in the midst of this three headed hydra shitshow: covid deaths, economy problems (we can’t keep printing money forever and expect no repercussions), and of course the political crisis….. but someone has to do it

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Save yourselves!!


At least 1 out of every 800 Americans has died from covid

400,000 dead Americans

I don’t envy Biden taking over in the midst of this three headed hydra shitshow: covid deaths, economy problems (we can’t keep printing money forever and expect no repercussions), and of course the political crisis….. but someone has to do it

He's a better man that I. When I'm going to be hiking up a mountain, playing with my grandkid, or chilling on a beach.

Willie Nelson has received his covid vaccine

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/15/us/willie-nelson-covid-vaccine/index.html?__twitter_impression=true


With that I can go to sleep

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Willie Nelson has received his covid vaccine

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/15/us/willie-nelson-covid-vaccine/index.html?__twitter_impression=true


With that I can go to sleep

This just says “this week.” I really need to know if he got it before or after me.

Misses got a walk-in dose yesterday evening. Find out your local distro centers policies on what they do end of day/week with doses allocated for people who miss their appointments and will go bad if not administered (essentially) immediately, people.

How does one find out local distribution centers?

I'm as eager as the next guy to get the vaccine, but what's the rush? It's not like a magic portal of things to do are going to open up because you have your vaccine*.

*If your eagerness is purely health/fear related of catching covid-19, please disregard.

Yeah well if it’s available it makes sense to get it…

I would still wear a mask and limit my going out…

I also would love my partner to get it…

My sister in Texas has pretty bad multiple sclerosis but hasn’t been able to get it and she has tried

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How does one find out local distribution centers?

In Virginia, contact the VDH or more specifically your county’s health board and ask who is currently giving vaccines to tier 1A and 1B clients. It’s generally colleges and small independent pharmacies (not CVSes or Walgreens) at least here in Richmond. Once you know, start calling them and asking.

Just got my shingles vaccine (1st shot).  No line or distribution problems (Costco).