Post by @mattblaze@federate.social

@mattblaze I got my same ones today. My sweetie and I got assigned the last two doses in the store - but while we waited for lunch hour to be over, a whole new shipment came in.

Two more guys (both walk-ins) were waiting after us.

Go #PNW!

@mattblaze I got mine last night as a walk-in while picking up a prescription at a suburban grocery store pharmacy. Only took a few extra minutes.

Pharmacist said he'd been doing 60+ vaccine appointments a day.

Took about 16 hours to start getting my butt kicked by the injections. Pretty standard/mild muscle fatigue and chills with acetaminophen & aspirin.

Good luck with your shots!

@mattblaze I appreciate your positive outlook, but that's leaning pretty hard on an equation that isn't just supply and demand but also advertising / public education.

@jbaggs I said it's encouraging if it means there's high demand. Obviously other factors may be involved. I don't know, which is why I used the word "if". But I've heard reports that demand is, indeed, fairly high here.

@mattblaze I worded that poorly. I'm glad demand is high. I hope supply keeps up. I have a relative that has poor reactions to the MRNA vaccines and trying to find availability of the "Novavax" one has been a bloody nightmare.

@jbaggs I didn't see anyone with Novavax on the list here.

If previous years are any indication, these tend to make me fairly useless about 12 hours after the injection, for about 12 hours, so I just lean into it and treat the couple of days after as dead time. No operating heavy machinery for me this weekend! (Or most weekends, actually).

@mattblaze@federate.social That’s a good move. I got my COVID booster last month to be ready for the start of the new term. Back in May, the TA who accompanied me in all my classes caught COVID, but I avoided infection because I had received a booster shot in January. As for the flu shot, I get it once a year—just at the end of autumn—and it has kept me protected.