Coronavirus Pandemic

[SuperMappy]

I was at workies today and the Pharmacist asked me if I had my covid booster yet? I told her no. She said that they had a batch of Pfizer booster shots that will expire in two days and would I like one now, so I agreed.

I asked her about the side effects due to the fact i got a nice high fever with the Moderna shots. She mentioned that the side effects with Pfizer have been known to be much lighter. So we shall see tomorrow morning.

Well it's now tomorrow morning and I feel remarkably fine. I have no fever and even my arm is doing great.

Hindsight being 20/20, maybe I should have gotten the Pfizer shots to start with originally.

[NorthWay]

Norway has a cut-off of 20 weeks for #3.
My body temperature is now fully back to normal. Didn't stop me from struggling to get up my temperature under the duvet - in the end I simply decided that the fix would be to turn up the heat in my bedroom. Sometimes the simple solutions are the best...

[tufty]

Let me know becuase it would be interesting to compare, also for me to understand "if I am particularly unlucky with Moderna", so far "a hell of an experience", it's the fact to have this constant pain that never fades away

I think you're just unlucky, Giles. You're not alone in that, of course. I seem to be a jammy bugger, very mild "tiredness" at the injection site and nothing else.

No, that doesn't help, I know.

Meanwhile the government have announced that masks are, as of now, obligatory outside in all ski resorts for everybody.

[Harlequin]

Meanwhile the government have announced that masks are, as of now, obligatory outside in all ski resorts for everybody.

Ski masks?

And what about inside?

[tufty]

Meanwhile the government have announced that masks are, as of now, obligatory outside in all ski resorts for everybody.

Ski masks?

Surgical masks or fabric masks (including "Buff" type things) designed for covid, silly :)

Indoors - masks in restaurants and bars, except when consuming (which you will be, so duh), cinemas and other places of "social gathering". Night clubs are closed. But of course they aren't able to say "wear a mask for your christmas dinner".

[gilesgoat]

18:58 today, feeling definitely better .. been working all day with the turkey and such and took a couple of naps in between.

Still a bit of soreness but "nothing compared to what was before"

Had at some point a moment/thing while sleeping where I felt like "I was sweating quite a bit" .. after that .. things started to feel better ..

MAH ...

[Harlequin]

Meanwhile the government have announced that masks are, as of now, obligatory outside in all ski resorts for everybody.

Ski masks?

Surgical masks or fabric masks (including "Buff" type things) designed for covid, silly

I am now imagining a crowd of people outside a ski resort all wearing Sarah Michelle Gellar masks.

[merman]

Family meal yesterday.

Niece tested posted this morning

Although I was wearing a mask and was on the other side of the table, it was a close contact. So 7 days of testing.

Negative this morning. Put a spanner in the plans for Christmas.

[gilesgoat]

.. interesting facts .. talking with some people in Italy .. one is telling me that "while he was on the line to get the Pfizer jab" someone that already had it ( Pfizer ) described his first experience "like mine" and this person I am talking to said he too had his first Pfizer experience similar to mine ...

Mah .. "seems it's different from person to person" ..

[Ratsoap]

Family meal yesterday.

Niece tested posted this morning

Although I was wearing a mask and was on the other side of the table, it was a close contact. So 7 days of testing.

Negative this morning. Put a spanner in the plans for Christmas.

Fingers crossed you remain negative.

My wife's colleagues are dropping like flies at the moment. We've both tested negative daily for the last week. Hoping we will do the same in the morning...

[sonixtorm]

Got my third perforation yesterday, moderna, was quite cagey about it given the comments from ex. giles. So far a bit sore around the injection site, but les so than with pfizer, no other ill effects. We'll see how it goes at work...

Let me know becuase it would be interesting to compare, also for me to understand "if I am particularly unlucky with Moderna", so far "a hell of an experience", it's the fact to have this constant pain that never fades away

I forgot to ask if it was Moderna and/or Pfizer what was my mum's first shot, at her first shot she had such a really BAD reaction she ALMOST ended up in a hospital, very high fever and lot of complications for 2 days, thankfully then they started to slow down ( if it would have been a 3rd day like that she would have tried to go in a hospital for sure ! ).

I got a Moderna booster after AZ for the first two. Quite a free people in work reported stronger side effects with Moderna (to the point that some were requesting Pfizer), so I don't think you are alone Giles. Fortunately, nothing more than a sore arm for me.

[PFVA]

Indoors - masks in restaurants and bars, except when consuming (which you will be, so duh), cinemas and other places of "social gathering". Night clubs are closed. But of course they aren't able to say "wear a mask for your christmas dinner".

Here they say "put your mask on every time you are not actually eating or drinking such as in between the appetiser and the main course, or in between the main course and the deserts, or even in between deserts, etc, and put it on every time you talk". We call it the "põe e tira" ("put it on, take it off, put it on, take it off"

[PFVA]

We have a slightly unusual measure:

The after Xmas sales at the stores are forbidden at least till January 9. The stores will be open but with a limit on the number of people, 1 person per each 5 square meters, but no sales till at least the 9th.

(I didn't even know they could do that)

On the good side coffee is not forbidden, only alcohol beverages on the street on the 30th and 31st. I won't have to carry a scarf to hide my coffee this year.

[merman]

Family meal yesterday.

Niece tested posted this morning

Although I was wearing a mask and was on the other side of the table, it was a close contact. So 7 days of testing.

Negative this morning. Put a spanner in the plans for Christmas.

Fingers crossed you remain negative.

My wife's colleagues are dropping like flies at the moment. We've both tested negative daily for the last week. Hoping we will do the same in the morning...

Fortunately the niece had a negative PCR, and everyone else has tested negative. So we were able to push ahead with Christmas plans (although my wife was too tired to do anything today).

[skab]

Had my Moderna booster on the 10th, the following night I had the shivers, mild cramps and was a bit cold, but not too bad. Didn't even connect it with the jab, since I was 40h awake at that moment, so I thought it was fatigue...

My GF had more severe cold symptoms, more heavy shakes etc., but she had way worse side effects from the annual flu jabs.