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PIA has had almost as much rain this month as ORD has had for the year. 5.30" to 5.52" The positive news for breaking the drought at ORD sometime in the next few months is that it hasn't been dry in nearby upstream locations such as yours. Doesn't guarantee anything, but you'd rather see that than all kinds of dryness to the sw.

Not saying that 80% figure is wrong, but you are only evaluating people for a limited amount of time (the weeks between the 1st and 2nd dose) to come up with it. Even if it's correct, who knows how long the protection would last.

I think ibuprofen is fine too. The nurse who did mine told me to take ibuprofen, but the printout said Tylenol or other similar medication. My arm soreness is finally 100% gone after 4 days. Did not think it would take so long to get rid of that. I had a pretty quick onset of soreness after getting the shot so perhaps that was a sign.

Good read about immunocompromised individuals. Coronavirus vaccines may not work in some people. It’s because of their underlying conditions. Early research shows that 15 to 80 percent of people with certain medical conditions, such as specific blood cancers or organ transplants, are generating few antibodies after receiving coronavirus vaccines. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/05/18/immunocompromised-coronavirus-vaccines-response/?outputType=amp

The Ohio lottery for vaccinated people appears to be helping. Vaccinations in ages 30-74 went up by 6% after a period of decline, and it's not like that age group just became eligible for a vaccine. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-sees-boost-shots-after-it-announces-1-million-vaccination-n1267648

Did you have anything with the first one? I don't remember.

They’re Vaccinated and Keeping Their Masks On, Maybe Forever https://dnyuz.com/2021/05/17/theyre-vaccinated-and-keeping-their-masks-on-maybe-forever-2/

Have brought this up before, but would like to see medical people talk more about certain people still being vulnerable from a serious covid outcome after being fully vaccinated. If I had anybody in my family who I had reason to think that the vaccine would not work well in them, I'd certainly suggest getting an antibody test after full vaccination to get an idea of how much their body responded. I realize not everyone has the means to do that or may not even want to know, as it would be pretty disheartening to get vaccinated and learn that your immune response to it was minimal. https://madison.com/news/local/health-med-fit/madison-woman-dies-from-covid-19-she-contracted-after-full-vaccination/article_403d81d3-5dd1-549d-a174-d0c46c92d23a.amp.html

When you look at the 10 worst states in terms of deaths per million, it's a mix of Democrat and Republican led states, and presumably there was a wide range in policies between those states. It's a good talking point to say that a looser approach is better, but clearly it didn't work so well in places like South Dakota and Alabama.

From 3/1 to 5/16, ORD has had 2.32". Average during that time is 8.57". For the year, the total is 5.52" compared to an average of 12.53". Shows how things took off after 3/1. Will take a while to climb out of that hole or even get close. The cool wx has helped things from drying out as quickly as they could have, but not going to be staying cool.

Hopefully remaining restrictions can go away soon. A lot of states have had capacity limits on things (or even no indoor dining as you mentioned) and I think like 37 states had mask mandates at some point. It was probably unrealistic to expect everything everywhere to change quickly even after the new CDC guidance came out. We are sort of in a transition phase of pandemic life with places figuring out what to do. Hopefully things look and feel different pretty soon. imo it's going to be difficult even for a portion of vaccinated people to return back to a pre-covid type of life though. May make for an interesting study in human behavior.

From March 1 through May 15, it is the 2nd driest meteorological Spring for Chicago... 1887: 1.60" 2021: 2.32" 1958: 2.47" 1934: 2.55" 1989: 3.42" 1994: 3.56" 2005: 3.62" 1986: 3.78" 1895: 3.93" 1886: 4.02"

I admit I had some jitters. Don't have a phobia of needles, but hadn't had a vaccine in so long and was wondering about what side effects I'd get. Helps to focus on the big picture. The payoff of getting it is tremendous as you almost eliminate your chances of getting deathly ill from covid. You may have a relatively low risk of getting deathly ill from covid if you were to catch it, but you just never know.

Well, I had a headache, a bit of fatigue and mild arm soreness. The soreness is still there but the other side effects have cleared up.

Indeed... quite a few guys went from football to wrestling. Steve McMichael is another one, and not like he was in the NFL for 5 minutes... he had a legit career there before going into wrestling. Sad story about his ALS though.

Hogan did a great job getting to 70% of eligible Marylanders vaccinated overnight. Amazing.

It's done. Painless experience. Now we wait and see about any side effects. This was a significant step for me. I am cautious in general with what I put in my body... I don't smoke, rarely drink, and eat clean probably like 80-90% of the time. As I have posted before, it had been over 15 years since I got any type of vaccine. Being a younger guy, I just haven't felt the need, but covid is a different animal. Over the last number of months, there were 3 factors that I was looking at when deciding whether I was going to do this. 1) Efficacy rate. As it turns out, it is very effective... way better than half protection. 2) Side effect profile. Seems like fairly standard stuff overall, and I haven't heard about anybody growing horns out of their head. 3) Amount of progress in treatments for covid. While there has been progress, it is not quite as much as I wanted it to be by this point. The monoclonal antibodies are a nice option, but it's mainly for those who are thought to be at higher risk of severe illness (so if you're not at higher risk for severe illness but still end up getting severely ill... oops) and you have to give that in a certain window for it to really be effective, and they don't work so well against one or two of the variants. I think I made a good decision and am glad to join the crowd of the vaccinated.

Currently in line for Pfizer #1

Remember that multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children that got a lot of attention for a while? Indiana's covid dashboard now includes info on those cases. Doing the math, there have been about 112,000 confirmed covid cases in age 20 or younger in Indiana. There have been 89 cases of the multi-system inflammatory syndrome in people 20 or younger, so that comes out to about 1 in 1300 confirmed covid cases in that age group having the multi-system inflammatory syndrome. The actual frequency could be lower since many children with covid have mild symptoms (or maybe even no symptoms) and may not be getting tested.

Did you see what Ohio is doing? They will be having a drawing every week for 5 weeks in which a vaccinated person will win $1 million.

What will be interesting to see is if there is any sort of rise or at least a cessation of the dropping numbers in southern states this summer. If you'll recall, the summer 2020 surge was underway by June before peaking later in July/into August, and the thought was that people being locked up indoors more because of the heat at least played a role in the spread. Obviously it's a different ballgame now with so much vaccine, so something of the same magnitude won't play out this time. A number of those states have lower vaccine uptake though, so I would not be shocked if there comes a point where the covid numbers there get a little stubborn.

So July 1 is 7 weeks away. 7 weeks ago we were averaging around 55k cases per day. Now it is around 35k. As far as I can tell, you have 2 things working in your favor and 1 working against in the coming weeks. The two in your favor are more and more people being vaccinated and the change in season. The thing working against is capacity limits/masking easing and people letting their guard down more. I am a total amateur so take my opinion fwiw but I think it could be a close call as far as averaging under 10k by the end of June.

Update on this. They tested her for covid and it did come back positive. She is starting to do better. That family is kinda slow with info and I still don't know when she got the vaccine, but reading between the lines it seems unlikely that she was fully vaccinated.

Let's talk about the semi-outbreak with the Yankees. Kind of impressive that 8 fully vaccinated people already tested positive. That's over a relatively short amount of time of being fully vaccinated. If the PCR test isn't altered and enough people are routine tested, we may never drop below 10k cases per day in this country lol