I had my second one a couple weeks back. I was the opposite. The first one kicked me harder and he second one was not bad.
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Is it not the lack of an RX number that has prevented it from being covered by insurance for so long? Thatās what I thought but please correct me if I am wrong.
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Yeah health Canada wont give Medical weed an RX number, which allows it to be obtained on health insurance.
I think to push people to try the pharmaceutical stuff if they have health insurance, rather than pay for the real stuff out of their own pocket. Thats what the doc offered me first. I just stood up and said no thanks, I guess I am waisting my time, and he said, No we can set up a script for natural cannabis, we just prefer to have patients on this, as we know what the side effects are, as opposed to natural cannabis.
At least you can now claim the tax back on Medical weed, if bought from an LP.
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I am getting a little down with this resurgence
I had plans to go see mom in southern Missouri and put it off til August
Now her town is blowing up with it
No one in her church is vaccinated
She is and one other person and they donāt mask
My son in law refused to vaccinate
So Iām just staying out of missouri
I gotta go back to my full time job soon and Iām not looking forward to it
Will be surrounded by people eight hours a day and who knows their status
Our state has forbidden local agencies or towns to mask mandate
We are fucked
Is my opinion
I donāt think we had a chance against this thing without a world wide mandate and millions of people innoculated at once
Even if we clear the USAā¦which we will never do because of current attitudes and theories
We will never eliminate it world wide
Iām just really not in a good place now
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It makes sense that only people losing their shit over COVID panic buy toilet paper.
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Yes I never understood the whole toilet paper thing
Lysol? Clorox? Yes. Toilet paper? Really?
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When you think how many people made good money off Covid selling face masks and shields,hand cleaning
Now people are crying about going to be a bacon shortage soon lol
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My friend thereās enough pork in DC for us to live on for years.
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when i got my vaccine, thye told us yuo still have to wear a mask and distance, you can still get it. You just shouldnāt die from it.
So really i cant see the vaccine as something that stops the spread.
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Checking in, I got my first Pfizer vax back at the end of February, the second in March. Since then Iāve had zero reactions/complications to it. Some of my family members have tested positive for Covid with two ultimately dying. One has tested positive and has been hospitalized twice. So far the only ones that have gotten sick or died were not immunized. Makes sense, they had no immunity.
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So really i cant see the vaccine as something that stops the spread.
People who are vaccinated are not transmitting the virus to others, so if more people were vaccinated it would prevent the spread of the virus.
vaccinated people are becoming infected in public settings when they are being exposed to extremely high viral lodes in public crowds of unvaccinated individuals. This is the biggest factor for breakthrough cases in vaccinated individuals.
If more people are vaccinated, there will be less people actively spreading the virus.
The vaccine interferes with viral replication and reduces the amount of viral bodies that are being produced and shed from the infected person. In an unvaccinated individual the replicates uninhibited and can spread very effectively. One of the reasons the delta variant is more transmissible because it produces more viral bodies in the saliva and mucus of an infected individual.
Even though a higher viral lode from the delta variant can cause infections in vaccinated individuals, they are immunized so their immune systems are able to effectively fight off the infection and recover.
The greatest risk is that asymptomatic covid can still cause ālongā covid, so people should continue to wear masks in enclosed spaces and around crowds.
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Unfortunately this piece does not seem to be holding up. There is a recent study based off of the recent Cape Cod spike in infections.
It gets even more scary w this infoā¦
I donāt think we are in the clear yet, w just a vaccine. We needed a cohesive global response indeed, and early on. Sharing of intellectual property rights for essential health technologies needed to happen 2 years agoā¦at this point, we are gonna be chasing this thing around the globe for a long time it would seem.
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Thatās too bad, the piece I read on NPR a few days ago on the 28th said preliminary studies indicated that the vaccine reduced the likelihood of transmission.
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Yeah the Cape Cod study came out a day or two later I think, and then this new variant traveling around South Americaā¦itās not good news 
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Now they found some Whitetail Deer have it.
They donāt know themselves, you have 2 independent studies that came out merely weeks apart with totally different outcomes.
Thereās more to these stories, good or bad.
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The original variant wĆ s less transmissibleā¦so we needed sixty percent innoculated
This being a new variant which is more transmissible will require any more to be innoculated by vaccine or natural immunity
We will never reach that
This thing is here to stay
I think our only hope is that it eventually mutates into a milder form
It may sound crudeto say but the financial costs to our health care system have to be horrendous
Yes one article, multiple studies w different findings. One, looking into whether or not vaccinated individuals can transmit the virus; upon new information, now they think yes.
Another looking into reports of another supposedly more contagious and resistant to the vaccine variant in S America. Not good.
Yes, there is more to this than one article. Has it jumped from humans to other animals also? Itās likely it has, they started vaccinating some zoo animal populations some time ago, gotta protect your investment ya know. Meanwhile, whole countries of actual people donāt have access to the shot.
Jumped a good while back and thereās likely more.
Edit: made it through covid a couple months ago and am on day five since first shot. Itās certainly been no picnic. Was hit hard by covid and first shot. Not looking forward to second as my dr says it will be the worst yet. Still kicking none the less. Just a few more scratches in the paint.
Hope everyone pulls through alright. Whatever this is that weāre making our way throughā¦weāre in it together. If thereās someone you love that becomes illā¦that means a lot to you and yoursā¦check on themā¦if you canāt reach themā¦go see them. If Iād done this last year a very dear friend would still be with us.
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Understanding I have is that, if you have had COVID, the first vaccine hits harder than the second. If not exposed prior, the second hits harder. In my case, having had it in October 2020, my first Pfizer vaccination on 4/20 left me with a bad headache for 2days and muscle soreness for a week. My second on 5/11 had no ill effectsā¦
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I do hope you are correct. This last weekend was rough. I had moderna. Not looking forward to round two but Iām going to do it. Have had lingering symptoms since initial infection. My primary is hoping they fade with full vaccination. Weāll see.
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