Oh... that's my dream! I hate wearing shorts and sandals.

Scotland seems like a pretty awesome place to live 😄

Yes. Sure. I am grateful to EVERYONE who had a part in making this vaccine happen. I don't have to like everything about certain politicians, but I don't care who gets credit for this, just that it happened is enough for me.

People in India and Brazil and Africa and all over the world are desperate to get the vaccine, and here in the USA there are all sorts of suspicions about how it's being used to "control" people, making them magnetic, secretly inserting microchips, etc. So many people have suffered and died. Why are more people not jumping for joy that brilliant scientists have finally gotten us out of this mess? Wondering if these sorts of things are happening in other countries, or if it's a phenomenon unique to the US.

That's great! Elementary is awesome 😎 My 3rd graders crack me up on a daily basis, and they still do things like write notes that say "I love my teacher." 😍

Yuuuuuck! Also, if someone with celiac does react to it, that's a MAJOR bummer.

Hooray! Doing a happy dance for all of you!

Does it need to be labeled? Could it just be called "enzymes"? I see that on labels...

Well, that's thoroughly disgusting! What about things like GF salami, deli meat, etc? I eat that stuff all the time.

I ♥️ central NY!

I would like to see it! 🙂

In the comments of a big newspaper here in Maine, everyone is asking, "But how many people that got hospitalized/died were VACCINATED?" I think it's a valid question. Everyone wants to know if the vaccines are working. I think it would go a long way to make it very clear somehow that X% of the new cases were from unvaccinated people, and X% were from vaccinated people. I'm sure the difference would be very stark. It seems like people don't know just how effective the vaccines are.

I met an interesting older gentleman at a farmer's market yesterday. He had a booth sharpening knives and other tools. He told me about his younger years when he had his own window washing business working for customers on the coast of Maine. He didn't say so, but I assume he made big bucks because of the wealthy summer people here. Anyway, he said he had so many customers, he made it a point to "fire" two of them every year. Now, there are only a handful of people who do window washing in this area, and they're in high demand. I thought it was interesting to consider professions that are always needed, but that not so many people want to do these days.

I wonder what percentage of those tested were positive, since not all 3.3 million were tested. Still, very encouraging!!

Well, Maine's Gov just said she's dropping the mask mandate for all. I don't get it. So a week ago people unvaccinated should still mask, and now they don't have to? Wondering what this means for schools and businesses.

I think you could manage LiPS with just the manual, as long as you have some reading intervention experience. You have to thoroughly understand the manual. It's a dense read, but it's doable.

The more people who choose not to get vaccinated, the more chances the virus has to mutate, creating variants. That's what I'm really worried about. Eventually, one of these variants may make even the best vaccines less effective, or even completely useless. So it's not really true that people choosing not to vaccinate has no effect on vaccinated people.

Well, that's what I was thinking.... that vaccine side-effects are likely to be less bad than most illnesses, including Covid. And at least the worst side-effects of the vaccine are less bad than the worst side-effects of Covid.

So you think that Covid for a kid would be what, exactly? Asymptomatic, or a mild fever, mild cold-type thing for a few days? And the vaccine side effects are worse than that, or last longer than that?

Oh my gosh. I don't have any of those! My house must be pretty disgusting 😂

I don't think so. I think the CDC is trying to incentivize people to get vaccinated by demonstrating how it's better to have protection of a vaccine than no protection (or less effective protection of masks/distancing).

Yes. And those cause spread, too. A person with a false negative goes to work, and a person who tested negative today but would test positive tomorrow, goes to work. Spread. Nobody here is saying that the tools available to us are perfect. They are tools in the toolbox. The more you use at once, the more protection there is. Of course one can debate if it's worth using every single tool (like now we know masks aren't needed outdoors most of the time), but nobody's saying that there is just one perfect tool and the rest are garbage.

A person can be concerned with more than one thing at the same time. I'm concerned about the things you stated above, as well as masks, as well as other things. Simultaneously. This thread happened to be about just one thing of concern.

Maybe, but extremely unlikely.

The way I see it, if I'm not vaccinated, I'm eventually going to catch covid. So either way, I'm rolling the dice on side effects - side effects from the virus, or side effects from the vaccine. The worst thing that would happen to me with the vaccine would be what happened to your husband, a week of feeling miserable. The worst thing that would happen to me with actual covid is getting hospitalized or dying. So, I'm going to pick the thing that has the least chance of a serious side effect.