Ugh 😩 I met my new doctor today, had my yearly exam, and got three vaccines.

[gildilinie@jorts.horse]

@AnnieBuddy @renata @benroyce @CppGuy @alice
they wont let us have a shingles shot until we're 50 here in Marlaina's Alberta

[lukefromdc@kolektiva.social]

@benroyce @renata @CppGuy @alice An edible vaccine must never be the only option! Whatever food you use there will be someone who cannot eat it due to allergies or taste/smell issues.

I have had severely twisted taste and smell all my life and cannot even be in the same room with most foods being cooked. Putting a vaccine on a hot dog and asking me to eat it would be like asking me to eat a turd containing the same vaccine

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@LukefromDC @renata @CppGuy @alice no argument. It should be a range of options to catch people who can't tolerate one or the other option

[anniebuddy@mstdn.ca]

@gildilinie @renata @benroyce @CppGuy @alice

I paid for it myself. It seemed like a good investment. I am sorry that everyone isn't able to do that. Even insurance doesn't cover it. $450

My husband's cousin had to have shoulder surgery to replace the tendons from another part of his body because of damage from shingles.

I did the cost benefit analysis and thought it was worth it.

[renata@cosocial.ca]

@LukefromDC @benroyce @CppGuy @alice I absolutely cannot tolerate the smell of pork being cooked, including bacon and this toot speaks to me

[clew@ecoevo.social]

oof

I got shingles at 45ish and whoa, it was the least inconvenient case possible and it was debilitating. Just the itching! But also the stickiness!

... and discovering how many 20somethings around me weren't vaccinated against ?chickenpox?measles? whichever the root disease is, and expected me to stay home, okay, but didn't see why they should get vaccinated. Maybe I convinced some.

@gildilinie @AnnieBuddy @renata @benroyce @CppGuy @alice

[joejoetom@famichiki.jp]

@renata @benroyce @CppGuy @alice Kinda like rubbing alcohol on a scrape. Stings like hell but better than getting gangrene.

[cppguy@infosec.space]

@clew @gildilinie @AnnieBuddy @renata @benroyce @alice

I'm too old to have been vaccinated against #chickenpox as a child. By coincidence, I'm recovering from chickenpox right now. In adults, it's a horrible experience. Most of my torso is numb, I have bad abdominal and back pain, and I'm covered from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet in spots. Last night, I got less than three hours' sleep.

#Shingles would have been worse. I'll definitely pay for the shingles #vaccine as soon as I'm over this.

The NHS is giving free #MMR vaccines to anyone who didn't have them as a child (including me, because of my age). I had my two doses recently and I'm glad I did.

[anniebuddy@mstdn.ca]

@CppGuy @clew @gildilinie @renata @benroyce @alice

So sorry to hear that! I have heard that chickenpox can be deadly in adults, so I hope your recovery is quick.

I had a really bad case of it when I was 5-6. I still remember how awful it was.

[cppguy@infosec.space]

@AnnieBuddy @clew @gildilinie @renata @benroyce @alice

Thanks for your good wishes.

[anniebuddy@mstdn.ca]

@CppGuy 🥂 ☮️ ❤️

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@renata @LukefromDC @CppGuy @alice

just to be clear to you and luke, they're not talking ingredients in processed meats, they're talking genetically engineering food crops. potatos, corn, tomtatoes, bananas, etc

(which is a whole other contentious topic)

[renata@cosocial.ca]

@benroyce @LukefromDC @CppGuy @alice Hmm I love tomtatoes :D

(sorry)

[renata@cosocial.ca]

@benroyce @LukefromDC @CppGuy @alice I'm shocked it actually exists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomato

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@renata @LukefromDC @CppGuy @alice

there is also the tomacco

hybrid tomato-tobacco

the funny thing about that one is it was in a simpson's episode as a fictional plant. then someone successfully created it inspired by the show 😆

potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, tobacco, petunias, nightshade, etc:

it's all one closely related family of plants

i would argue the most generous plant family to humans, by far

[salixsericea@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @renata @CppGuy @alice Probably the parentheses part, I'm afraid. Think panic around surreptitious administration of vaccines, adulterated Halloween candies year round, 😉.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@salixsericea @renata @CppGuy @alice

"THEY PUT THE CHEMTRAILS IN THE POTATOES"

😩

[salixsericea@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @renata @CppGuy @alice LOL, 100% that one...

[slothrop@chaos.social]

@alice @benroyce @lispi314 Good! Though you could make it even easier:

At my workplace, we’re offered some routine vaccines (Covid, influenza etc) right on the premises. Book a 10min slot through the intranet portal, walk over at the appointed time, present your health insurance card, get the jab.

If you don’t feel fit the next day, no problem: we can always take paid sick leave, and only need a doctor’s note from the third day onwards.

[bashstkid@mastodon.online]

@alice @benroyce @lispi314 Not to be an annoying European, but when I lived in Denmark, not only did they have five weeks’ fully paid holidays, but one could take up to five mental health days a year, where if you woke up and thought ‘can’t face work today’, you can take the day off.

And the bottom line is that companies make more money from happy and attentive people.