Coronavirus

I guess thats what I was getting at.

Are all these interstate truck drivers quaranteening? Are pilots and flight attendants?

Different rule for different people?

Like I said, makes no sense.........

Hey, when you guys got your 1st shot - did they schedule your second shot that day?
I figure they'd have to so that you get the 2nd one within the 21-28 day window.

Yes, just after sitting and waiting for the required 15 minutes after the initial injection, they scheduled my second injection of Moderna, off by 15 minutes from exactly 4 weeks later. This was at a community "doc in the box" that a friend told us about. Don't leave without the second appointment. Three days after the second injection its like I never got it. Had sore upper arm for the first two days, and just slight fatigue on the day after the second shot.

Hey, when you guys got your 1st shot - did they schedule your second shot that day?
I figure they'd have to so that you get the 2nd one within the 21-28 day window.

yes

Got our appointments on line at a local pharmacy, was able to schedule first & second shot at the same time.
John

I guess it'll be different when they ramp up with the new J&J one shot vaccine, you'll know right away that's what you got if they don't invite you back.

[Supervisor expects Riverhead vaccination site for seniors 'by next week' | RiverheadLOCAL]('https://riverheadlocal.com/2021/03/02/supervisor-expects-riverhead-vaccination-site-for-seniors-by-next-week/')
Town of Riverhead expects to have the J & J vaccine available for town residents who are seniors by Monday at the senior center. I would expect that other towns will do the same.
John

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I got the brain fog years before the china virus hit.

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Got our appointments on line at a local pharmacy, was able to schedule first & second shot at the same time.
John

mattituck CVS John?
I heard they were doing it there

Retail pharmacies in NY are only authorized to do those 65+

mattituck CVS John?
I heard they were doing it there

Riverhead Walgreens, had to go to their website 12AM when the site is refreshed.......John

I feel sorry for the folks that are not computer / Internet savvy.:(

Big plan was to get those seniors vaccinated. My 91 year old dad can barely operate a flip phone to call me let alone go online. I made the appointment for him

Sad to say, I know we're going to hear about seniors being scammed by people charging them to make vaccination appointments...........should have let the local pharmacies take care of their senior customers instead of making them travel to wherever!

I feel sorry for the folks that are not computer / Internet savvy.:(

My mom is 73 and she needed a little assistance. I try to teach as I go! :)

New Brazilian game

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It does make you think................................

Fortunately I do not travel like that for work. But I do not plan to fly until my comfort level is reached. A personal decision.

Interesting article from today's NYT, especially for some of our colleagues here who are trying to recover their lost sense of smell and taste, compliments of COVID-19. Below is a blurb from it, but it does semi-validate a tongue in cheek suggestion I made to one of us that eating lots of Mexican Food might help jump-start his taste buds... Here's the link to the complete article:

[[SIZE=5]Will Fish Sauce and Charred Oranges Return the World Covid Took From Me?[/SIZE]]('https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/dining/covid-loss-of-smell.html?action=click&module=At%20Home&pgtype=Homepage')

[HEADING=2]Will Fish Sauce and Charred Oranges Return the World Covid Took From Me?[/HEADING]
Regaining my sense of smell is tedious and slow, but I’m using the only therapy proven to work.

Back in Jamaica, when Trudy-Ann Lalor and her siblings caught a cold, their mother burned Seville oranges over a fire in the backyard, cut the charred peel away and gave them the hot, juicy pulp with sugar, to eat with a spoon.

It always made them feel better. Maybe it was the comforting aroma of the citrus, the deliciousness and warmth of the fruit, the dose of vitamin C. Maybe it was the sweetness of the attention itself — the fact that someone loved you so much, she took the time to prepare you an orange in this elaborate way.

The family never had to explain any of this to anyone, until this past December, when Ms. Lalor’s 23-year-old son, Kemar Lalor, put a [how-to video]('https://www.tiktok.com/@toosmxll/video/6904461007586987265') for the remedy on TikTok, assuring people that it would fix a diminished sense of taste.

Smell and taste are intimately connected, and the video quickly went viral, as millions of strangers started burning oranges on the open flames of their gas stoves. Some were thrilled. They called it a miracle. Others laughed it off, calling it a useless joke. Many left angry comments when the orange didn’t work as advertised, though Mr. Lalor attributed that to poor execution — not burning the outside of the citrus thoroughly, not eating the pulp while it was still hot, not adding enough sugar.

I found the orange remedy a kind of pleasant exercise, a fun distraction. But it didn’t magically give me back what I’d lost after I got Covid in December. After my sense of smell disappeared, I became depressed and disoriented as all of the foods I loved became unrecognizable, turning into a series of unappealing textures.

So much of what we think of as taste is in fact smell — volatile molecules coming through the retronasal pathway, filling out all the details of a strawberry beyond its basic sweetness and acidity, expanding on its pleasures. Without information from our 400 smell receptors, which can detect many millions of smells, food flattens out.