COVID Vaccine Trial

[Alfred Scott]

Sure cure for boredom!

Yesterday I got my first shot in the AstraZeneca vaccine trial. Odds are 2/3 that it’s the vaccine and 1/3 that it’s the placebo.

The paperwork and bureaucracy is unbelievable. My last two doctors retired because of it.

The actual shot was a nonevent. Worst part was when they shoved the swabs up both sides of my nose all the way into the sinuses.

Alfred

[pwildman]

I'm sure this will shock you but recently I volunteered for the vaccine trials for Covid-19 that was held in Houston. The vaccine I received was created in Russia. I received my first shot yesterday at 4:00 pm, and I wanted to let you all know that it’s completely safe, with иo side effects whatsoeveя, and that I feelshκι χoρoshό я чувствую себя немного странно и я думаю, что вытащил ослиные уши.

[pete]

Alfred— thanks for volunteering. These things would go nowhere without people willing to take that risk. Not sure I should thank comrade Wildman, I need to maintain my security clearance.

We just found out that the nasty ‘flu’ that wiped out my wife for 3 weeks after thanksgiving LAST year was indeed Covid-19. Sorry to be trend setters. She had all the Covid symptoms- loss of taste and smell, cough, fever, lethargy, hair loss, tingling skin, spaced out. I felt pretty poorly for a few days as I cared for her. We think origin was from 2 teachers she works with that travelled to central China over that thanksgiving week. Several staff and numerous students at her school were sick with flu-like symptoms at that time.

We both just tested positive for a specific CD8 T-cell response to Covid-19 — confirming that it was Covid last year that nearly hospitalized my wife. And also indicating that we likely have durable immunity to COVID-19.

Cheers,

Pete