I am in the older age group and was vaccinated at HRH yesterday morning. There was a good crowd. Everything was quick, friendly and systematic, including an appointment for shot number two.

By last night, I had a sore arm and some body aches, but I'm pretty much back to normal this morning.

Great benefit was discovering the Wilson Street Cafe inside the hospital. Best cheeseburger I've had since I moved here three years ago!! Hot off the grill and the fries were hot from the deep fryer. Yum Yum!!

Dick;

For me the second shot was painful slightly longer than the first, but was gone by day 2. I really never had any other problems, but I have seen a few.

Hope we were all wearing masks for ya

Earl,

I saw my eye doctor yesterday and she told me she just had her second shot and had pains and aches from that one, but nothing at all from the first.

I'm glad the shots are here. I have a friend who says he won't get them because he never got a flu shot in his life and never got the flu.

I'm looking forward to my next shot and my next cheeseburger.

FYI breakfast is pretty good too.

So far no luck scheduling with MyChart. I'll try the phone next. Wait times are around half an hour, I'm told.

Custer County is making progress with vaccines.

Custer County
Total Doses Administered: 820
Dose #1 Administered: 713
Fully Immunized: 107
Doses per 1,000 people: 87.6
Eligible Population to be Vaccinated: 9,362

https://www.arcgis.com/ap...2103421d4b

Attempted to volunteer as a vaccine tester a couple months back, Shoot!, the'd pay up to $700, was it because I was a smoker, I was rejected? That's fine but I felt marginalized, wanted to help but couldn't, why, because I smoke? It's all unfair ! Why could I not help! You procreating fools!, Test on a smoker, I'm not talking your favorite grill blend, just cigarettes, Less than half of you have a blank stare at this point. Think about it!

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Progress. Steve has been accepted for the list. Now to try to schedule an actual shot. Fingers crossed for next week.

I hear there are about 200 signed up for tomorrow

Thanks for the tip.

Back to HRH today for my second cheeseburger and its accompanying shot in the arm. Somehow I forgot to order fries this time so I guess I'll have to go back. Oh goodie!

I'm still amazed that I didn't feel the needle either time.

Steve got his last week with no problem besides the car not happy at the cold at the crack of dawn. He had no reaction to the shot but that may also be because there was a cancellation at the dentist so he ended up getting a root canal in the afternoon and that took his mind off his arm.

Second one due March 9. The day after another root canal.

I got the first shot on February 6. I felt a little under the weather the next day and my arm was sore for a couple days, but there really wasn’t much to it. About like getting a flu shot.

Speaking of the flu:

“During the 2019-2020 flu season, some 400,000 people were hospitalized for the flu, with 22,000 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last week — just ahead of the season's usual peak — the CDC had recorded just 165 flu-related hospitalizations since October.”
https://www.npr.org/2021/...ild-season

And sir, what will you have with your vaccination today? Will it be the root canal or the cheeseburger?

The mild season has benefitted from measures like masks and social distancing, he said. It helps too that, last year, a record number of people got a flu shot.

But Schaffner says there's more to it: Kids — habitual superspreaders — are staying home.

"Children are generally thought of as having the distribution franchise for the influenza virus," Schaffner said. "They produce much more virus, they shed more virus for longer periods of time."

I was at the grocery store the other day and I kept bumping into this mom with her little kid in the child seat of the cart. Every time the kid was leaning forward and chomping on the wire structure of the shopping cart like it was a teething ring. I guess his mom is not a germaphobe.

My Miles City friends have all got their vaccinations at Albertsons this week with no issues. Apparently Albertsons has 20 vaccines a day to administer, and no one is showing up. I suspect the Jerry Erlenbusch types and the like are avoiding vaccinations as the shot might turn them gay.

Dick,

Just a note, I was one of the 1st 100 here to get the vaccine. My second shot was in Feb. I went to a wake on sat March 27th (prob 50 people without masks including me), and Mondays covid test ran me positive. (I get tested weekly or biweekly) I was tested again today and was positive again shoot ) no symptoms, hope it stays that way (early on 20% fatality rate in my group)

Just to say keep wearing the mask even after vaccination, until the herd is in

My second shot is scheduled at Albertson's tomorrow afternoon! Yay.

Me and the kids are getting our second shots on saturday, and my wife gets her second later next week. 2 weeks to freedom!

See above man, still gotta apparently not use poor judgement.

Well... Relative freedom