Happy to say today I got my second vaccine. Fully vaxed now.

Oh what fun....attempting to survive my first AZ jab on Thursday.....currently at second round of fever....

Bit rich having just got over a spider bite....with massive temperature followed by cellulitis and a round of anti-biotics.

Some prick out there clearly wants me dead....

I was bitten by a whitetail spider in the late 90's and took almost a year to fully recover.  I was rushed to the Princess Alexandra Hospital with a massive temperature the morning after the bite... I spent close to a month in there with a flesh eating bacteria that ate away much of my left calf and left a big hole there.  I was eventually discharged once they'd halted the necrotising of my leg, but it took another 10 months or more for the wound to heal.

I get my second Astra Zeneca shot on July 6 and I'll hopefully be covered against Covid.  The first shot was painless and I suffered no ill-effects, so I'm not concerned about the second dose despite various reports highlighting blood clots and other issues.

Hi all

Everything is going well here in sunny socialist Victoria with our glorious leader proclaiming a easing in restrictions . But on the serious side, we are all healthy, no sign of COVID, both my partner and 92 year old father in law are vaccinated now. as for myself, i just spent a month in hospital due to a strangulated bowel which resulted in a 10 centimetre section of my small bowel being removed resulting in my now need to wear a bag to catch my poo lol. It was serious for awhile with me being placed in a medically induced coma for 9 days because my body went into sepsis and most of my organs decided to shut down. i had 4 surgeries in 5 days to fix me up and a 2 week stay in ICU then into the ward of Bendigo hospital for another 3 weeks. Well i am back at home, recovering well, my organs are working well again. still a ways to go but what should have killed me did not. On the plus side i lost 30 kilograms while all this went on so that's a good thing. As for my vaccinations, my doctor has advised me against it for the time being, he wants me to wait until i am further recovered which makes sense. I can't have the Astrazenica vaccine because i have already had 3 major DVT's in my leg so the risks of  further blood clots are a lot higher for me so once i am allowed i will me getting the Pfizer variant instead. Well that's my check in. I hope everyone is healthy and well and staying safe. Take care   

Hey Nimbin, long time no see.  It's good to see you after so long, though reading of your health issues wasn't good.  That sepsis is a damned horrible thing.  Shaunna ended up with it earlier in the year from a small scratch on her leg and spent a couple of weeks in Launceston General Hospital.;  It was touch and go for a while that she may end up losing that leg.  Fortunately, they got it under control and she fully recovered.

I had the AstraZeneca first shot and had no issues with blood clots, though I do have a narrowing of an artery in my lower left leg.  My doctor didn't think it would pose a threat so I went ahead with the first jab undeterred.  There has been a lot of talk about the AstraZeneca vaccine posing risks, and then they lowered the age to 60's and above, but I am 68 and wasn't worried.

As I read it, you are better off with the Phizer shot, and hopefully you can receive it soon.  The alternative is Covid and not something anybody would want.

My wife and I have both had our first shot of the AZ vaccine. I had a slight headache and my wife had a sore arm and some muscle soreness in her lower back and bum. All OK after 24 hours. I spoke to our doctor the other day and he has had both shots of AZ. He says that there is less side affects with the second shot. We are booked in for our second shot on the 9th of July. Will let you know how we go

We both have had our 2nd shot with no side affects.

I've had both my AstraZeneca shots, neither caused me any pain at the needle site or anywhere else.  No side-effects, either.

I still don't get these anti-vaxxers peddling so much misinformation to sway people from getting their shots.  It makes no sense to peddle fear during the pandemic, but there they are, trying to influence and scare people.  Here in Australia we have 4 states where new cases being recorded every day, and it's mostly because of selfish and unruly people with no concern for others, just what takes their fancy at the time.  Fortunately, the state and federal governments are charging a number of these selfish pricks, with the outcome in some cases being jail time.

As far as I'm concerned, forget the fines and impose jail sentence for all Covid rule breakers.

I do wish more people would get vaccinated.  Seems like we're about due to spawn another variant.

Yep, everyone should be vaccinated ASAP.  As if it wasn't bad enough with the more contagious Delta variant, but a new variant with possible new symptoms should be well and truly enough to get everyone not vaccinated into the vaccination clinics to get their shots.

Even though we have had no new cases of Covid here in Tasmania in months, and our border is closed to everyone from affected states, I had no hesitation whatsoever to get my shots when it came to my place in the queue.  It's like the ad we have here on TV.... we're not safe until everybody is safe..... meaning we all should get the shots and do the right thing by ourselves, our friends and loved ones, everyone at work and living in our communities.

We get our second shots in September...meanwhile putting up with lockdown No.5 ....as NSW is currently screwed...bit slack getting into it...as if they knew how to do it better than Vic.  How wrong they were...

Jafo

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We get our second shots in September...meanwhile putting up with lockdown No.5 ....as NSW is currently screwed...bit slack getting into it...as if they knew how to do it better than Vic.  How wrong they were...

Yeah, the yuppies and the wealthy from Manly and northern beaches are largely responsible for the Sydney [and now rural NSW] breakout of Covid.  They've learnt nothing from the last breakout that took so many lives and are still going to the beach and other yuppie hangouts to socialise.  It's just not good enough, and the elected officials are more or less sitting on their hands because they don't want to lose the votes.

update from me. I finally got clearance from my doctor to get vaccinated for Covid. So i have had my 1st dose of Pfizer and due for my 2nd next week. No ill effects and everything went well.         

Nimbin

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update from me. I finally got clearance from my doctor to get vaccinated for Covid. So i have had my 1st dose of Pfizer and due for my 2nd next week. No ill effects and everything went well.         

Good to hear [um, read].... glad it went well for you. 

Sadly, it didn't go so well for a couple of Aussies who passed away after their first AstraZeneca shot, possibly due to underlying issues such as thrombosis, etc.  For most it is quite safe and few side-effects, if any, so yeah, I feel for their family and friends.

Incorrect....it was a limo driver from Bondi in the East whose job was ferrying international flight crews to quarantine and somehow thought it wasn't necessary to wear a mask...... you can't legislate for stupidity...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-07/nsw-covid-19-outbreak-explained/100271128

Glad you're all keeping safe...

Not entirely incorrect.  Perhaps the limo driver spawned the current outbreak with his stupidity and being out in the community, but there was a news report on 7 showing police trying to remove 50+ people from Bondi Beach during lockdown.  Not only was it stupidity, it was also irresponsible and selfish, too.

It's like the so-called privileged ones think that the rules don't apply to them, that they are immune to Covid because they are 'privileged'.  If only that were true, it would be easier to contain the outbreak if they were immune and not carriers/spreaders of it.

Thankfully, most people are doing the right and responsible thing by adhering to the lockdown rules, though it's sad that so many were in the wrong place at the wrong time and became infected while innocently shopping, working and/or conducting business.

It seems to me that one of the nastiest parts of this pandemic is that a person in any particular location doesn't really know there's a problem in his area until a few weeks after the problem has already taken a foothold, and that's even if the person has been paying attention.

The wanton disregard and denial is of course something else entirely, and it seems to come in so many flavors.

I'm sure we've all seen the stories of the people almost gone who've said "I can't have Covid, it's not real."

I saw a story sometime in the last week where a nurse in a hot spot was relating how more than once she's had a person almost gone who has said "I'm so sorry, please please give me the vaccine." Of course at that point there is nothing she can say except (her words) "I'm sorry, but it's just too late."  That one really stuck with me, the complete lack of understanding on the part of the patient regarding how vaccines in general work, and how that nurse likely wishes she could just give people a shot at that point and cure them.

One way or another we'll get through it.

I sure hope so.  This pandemic has wreaked havoc on so many communities and economies already, not to mention the families who have lost loved ones, good friends, too.  And when so-called experts are saying that it's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better, I dread to think they might be right.  I may be fully vaccinated but I still worry for friends and family who have not been as yet.

I thank my lucky stars that we have no Corona virus loose here in Tasmania, and that our borders are closed to those states with outbreaks, but I can't help but wonder how long that can last, given how virulent the Delta strain is and how it could possibly be transmitted here via freight carriers still delivering products from the mainland.

Bondi Beach is in the east....nothing Covid happening up Manly and Northern Beaches....no yuppies spreading it from there....you'll have to keep the yuppies on the backburner to blame for something another day....  

The beaches should have been closed as they were last year when shown people cant use them responsibly for exercise....

The irresponsible spreaders are from all walks of life...not the least being 3 removalists from the south west, two of them being twin brothers...who thought it appropriate with all 3 knowingly being Covid positive to make deliveries into several areas of regional NSW.... police escorted them home to quarantine....meanwhile the twin brothers Mum had caught Covid and died soon after....people are selfishly not taking into consideration they are affecting family members with their cavalier behaviour...

I believe it was a couple of removalists who breached Covid conditions who spread Delta into Victoria too....

The lockdown protests yesterday in Sydney bought out the dregs of our society....unmasked scumbags wrestling with police and punching police horses....utterly shameful...and we'll see what kind of super spreader that turns out to be over coming days....

A 38 year old died today....maybe they'll stop thinking of it as just deadly for the over 70's and start to get as scared as they should be with this Delta variant....

Hope it stays out of Tassie...