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    Personal SARS-COV-2 vaccination experiences

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    20 hours ago, crazyforlatin said:

    DH is getting one on Thursday, and despite having a pre-existing condition, he couldn’t get an appointment until this week. He’s getting it at Kaiser but doesn’t know which one and doesn’t care. Has anyone gotten a vaccine from Kaiser yet?

    I have two relatives who received Moderna from Kaiser.

    Dr. Seuss Books pulled for racist images

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    1 hour ago, SKL said:

    I think it goes more to the backstory, i.e., before the Seuss co's statement, Seuss was being "cancelled" in some ways.  The actions of certain organizations other than the Seuss co have been over the top, and this reflects a larger trend toward erasing/distorting the past in the name of improving the present/future.

    How was Seuss being "cancelled" before this announcement?

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    Dr. Seuss Books pulled for racist images

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    27 minutes ago, Quill said:

    I loved To Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street as a kid. I read the cover off that book. I loved how it encouraged imaginative thinking. I don’t remember what stereotyping was in that book that hadn’t aged well, though I have no difficulty imagining there is some. 

     

     

    19 minutes ago, Roadrunner said:

    Are those meant to be pictures of people? I would never have thought that. When I look at the picture I think they depict animals, and I see nothing wrong. Now if they meant to be people, then it’s a very different story. 🥲

    There are illustrations here. And yes, they are meant to be people not animals.

    https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/books/here-are-the-wrong-illustrations-that-got-six-dr-seuss-books-cancelled

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    Dr. Seuss Books pulled for racist images

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    13 minutes ago, Terabith said:

    I think, though I am not certain about this, that the issue is that Dr. Seuss's estate itself has decided to stop publishing it.  Which seems like the right thing to do, to me?  I mean, we own several of these books, and they are really problematic.  I don't think this necessarily means that Dr. Seuss was the devil or anything; he was, like all of us, a product of his time.  

    I'm sure there will be second hand copies of And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street around for a long time to come. 

    Yes, they decided this after having a review board look at the titles:

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    To that end, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, working with a panel of experts, including educators, reviewed our catalog of titles and made the decision last year to cease publication and licensing of the following titles:  And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, If I Ran the Zoo, McElligot’s Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, Scrambled Eggs Super!, and The Cat’s Quizzer.  These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.

    https://www.seussville.com/statement-from-dr-seuss-enterprises/

    (Bolding is mine.)

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    The Vaccine Thread

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    7 minutes ago, Roadrunner said:

    Are you telling me if I show up they won’t tell me which one they are injecting me with? Well then I will decline until it’s commercially available. That’s crazy.

    I can only vouch for this particular site. As of 2 weeks ago, this is what they wrote:

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    Depending on when you’re vaccinated, you could get the J&J vaccine, or Pfizer or Moderna. 

     With limited supplies, you won’t be able to pick which one you get.

    (Bolding is theirs.)

    Based on that, if I had a preference, I'd wait to see my doctor's office or talk to a pharmacy.

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    The Vaccine Thread

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    6 hours ago, mommyoffive said:

    I wonder how things will work with that?   Do they tell you when you get to the appointment which one you are getting?  Would they tell you before hand?   

     

    4 hours ago, Roadrunner said:

    I don’t know. 😞 

    I will ask though. This simply isn’t enough protection. I know it’s better than nothing,  it i would rather wait for a better vaccine. 

    In a press release from a county supersite by me, it stated that you are not given a choice (at least at that time, which about 2-3 weeks ago). I believe you are told after receiving it so that you are scheduled for the next in the series from that brand. They were using both Moderna and Pfizer and were eagerly looking to add the J&J vaccine.

    What in-person things are you doing right now?

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    I never stopped coming into work. We were closed to the public for a good six months but that ended in October. I've been working with the public for about 6 months now. My work is good about masking, hand sanitizing/ washing, social distancing. We have not had any cases of transmission among our employees happening at our location during the entire pandemic.

    Shopping routines haven't changed much. I did try to pull back when numbers where on the rise here and opted for early mornings/ after work at night when I could. I sometimes opt for curbside pickups, but that's more to save time on my part rather than to avoid entering the building.

    No outside activities for the kids because everything is only being offered online.

    We don't go to entertainment kinds of place mostly because they are closed. Outdoor places to hike or walk along a beach are hard to get to. I'd rather not drive an hour to find out that we'll just be turned away due to capacity limits or would prefer to leave because of overcrowding. This is the time of year that we'd start taking day trips to museums and other places either on the weekend or as an impromptu day off. I'm missing it.

    We've kept all of our dental and medical appointments.

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