A) I would fight to be one of the first people to get one.

GaGa, hope you're not losing it, you old fuck! And I mean "old fuck" as a sign of respect and admiration, of course.
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Your choices are between "A", "B", "C", and "D".  There is no category number 3.  
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If you want to know which letter/response I'd pick, its somewhere between "B" and "C", because I'd talk to my doctor 1st for advice and timing.  
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But no matter when or if I get vaccinated, I would not let it delay or stop my mongering or sugar activity because I aspire to be an "old fuck" as well.  
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Life is good.
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The Cat

I have some helpful info about vaccines, specifically about the upcoming CV vaccine. Anyone interested in received the link is more than welcome to email me (put CV vaccine info in the subject line).

but yeah, I fucked up and I'll own it. lol

to mine this board for hobbyist email addresses.  If you have something worth sharing, just post the link.  If not, I think most of us are sufficiently tech-savvy to know how to find all there is that's published on this subject by ourselves.  

I’d wait awhile, because I’m not in the group that’s most susceptible to problems from COVID-19. They’ll be getting the vaccine first. At least I’ll hope that’s how it will work.  But I’d like to get it fairly soon as some of my extended family ARE in that group, plus I don’t know how soon I’ll have to start flying again for work.

allergic reaction to any kind of vaccine, so I would feel safe being in the "B" group, unless there' so many people that I end up in the "C" group by default.  

I'm an old fuck (I'm a dinosaur, after all), have asthma and want to enjoy as many more birthdays as I can get.

Well if you can give choices A, B, C, and D, and then choose number 3 for yourself, I can pick B and a half. Lol.

A.5: i would get it as soon as my pharmacy has it available.
take 6 pills a day for various health issues, don't think Covid-19 and i would get along.

I would choose "C".  

Its like all the childhood diseases  
You get vaccinated..
measles
Mumps chickenpox  
And regular flu every year
That's just me..each to your own

I haven't had a flu shot in years but I'll  get this one.  Just to say FUCK YOU to Chinese Communists.   They aint gonna get me.  

The flu shot, not so much. I know a lot of people who get a flu shot every single year and of course I know a lot of people, myself included who have NEVER gotten a flu shot. This is anecdotal evidence of course and hardly scientific, but of the people I know who do get flu shots, they seem to get the flu at a HIGHER rate than those of us who don't. I have never seen any evidence strong enough where the flu vaccine is concerned to convince me it's in my best interest to get one. I of course have NEVER had the flu.  

Had only 1 flu shot in my life and that was in the early 70's. Had the flu maybe four or five times but most were 24 hr. Not downplaying the severity of this virus but while older would wait a few months. I actually tend to not take much medicine, not for religious or conspiracy reasons but the more medicine you take the less effective it becomes. Know many people who are on med's and every few years the strength and type of the med's is re-evaluated.

Personally I try to use drugs for "recreational purposes only" lol Ok, actually I quit doing that decades ago, but to be serious again, Yes, COVID is a virus not a bacterial infection, but lets look at the use of antibiotics, Americans take so many fucking antibiotics we are creating super bugs that pretty soon the only way to kill the bug will be to kill the patient. I am not one of those idiot "anti-vaxers" that believe ALL vaccines are bad and that their kids will get autism because of the getting something as crucial as a measles shot that has most likely saved tens or more likely hundreds of millions of lives. Those people are nuts and shut be treated as such, but that doesn't change the fact that as a society there is no argument that we are not over medicated. I am the only person over sixty that I know that isn't on some kind of drug.

and hoping for heard immunity.

....is like "there better not be a microchip in it" lol (I SAID IT).
But begrudgingly i'm option C. For the greater good and all that plus I have all of these other vaccines floating in my body anyways and my mom & grams are immunocompromised people.

That was certainly the case with the old normal. Not sure now. I suspect there will be strong interest in fast tracking any reasonable solutions - so human testing yes but possibly not large scale testing or lengthy test periods.

I think you will agree that no one is going to be satisfied with waiting years for a vaccine for COVID. They will do their best to provide us with something as safe and effective as possible, but there are literally millions of variables, and no one can predict the long term effects of any new drug, or vaccine with any degree of accuracy in just a matter of months. In a year, we will know more than we know now, in ten years we will know a LOT more, but waiting that long is simply not an option.  

the time cycle is expected to be compressed ... at least I hope. By any measure, never has been so much resources and talents, and volunteers invested in any vax effort - so lets hope we get something safe effective and quick - they can be oxymoronic in most of the history of scientific discoveries.

I would say that is also part of the old normal. I think right now there is a strong push, on several lines, to be the first country to produce both vaccine and any type of treatment -- and even improved testing (hell, we're still working on getting a good flow of masks and other PPE, and lets face it the masks are not rocket science just straightforward manufacturing).

C - waiting  - is the answer.  Remember the movie “I Am Legend” with Will Smith - they discovered a vaccine for cancer, which worked great for months, and then killed 90 % of the world population and turned another 9 % into ZOMBIES!  ZOMBIES DAMIT!   A few people like Will survived.   Apparently the dumb ass zombies didn’t know how to use guns, even if they were NRA members (same apparently true in Zombieland movie) so Will Fought the zombies off using his arsenal and worked on another vaccine.  There you go.  Zombies.  

...And I've been through worse shit.  

even Trump says it's real and NOT a hoax. The only people who say it's a hoax are the nut-job fringe.
Welcome to the club.

Now this just confirms it..man, some dudes.

I have gotten the flu shot every year for 30 years and have never gotten the flu. Anecdotal evidence means almost nothing.

"Cheeto Mussolini," you mean Cuomo?  He's the only politician of Italian descent that has been getting publicity lately.  

Cheeto = Orange
Mussolini = Egomaniacal Dictator
Cheeto Mussolini = Trump
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW2SEpWWqXM
Cheeto Christ Stupid Czar Parody
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTosB6V_V24
Desperate Cheeto Parody

You didn't catch the fact that someone superimposed Mussolini's face over Trump's?  Trump is not even Italian.  I take you Lefties have so little to talk about these days, this is the kind of overreach you think is going to make points with anyone?  Just makes you look desperate.  My apologies to others for responding to a post that should be on the P & R board, but sometimes you have to put down the rabid, whether its dogs or humans.  

As I stated earlier there are thousands and thousands of the best and brightest in many countries working on this. BUT if we get something in a few months, even if it later turns out was the magic bullet and is both safe and effective it still will not have been PROVEN to be so in that short period of a few months. PROOF takes years, but we aren't going to wait years, the fear of COVID is too high not to approve "something" long before the normally long process of proving both it's effectiveness and safety are completed. Quite frankly the world is going to do it's best to be both quick and correct. Whether they succeed or not remains to be seen.

Just as with any potential drug/treatment/vaccine the virus itself presents a lot of uncertainty related to longer term impact on health.  

WTF...you senile old fool.
For the record I'd be category 4 lol

They are working on the vaccine way to fast imho.  Unless they know that sars-cov2 is a crimea virus (man made, engineered in a lab).  From the research I have done the virus has the following  glycoproteins  in it gp120, gp41, and gp160. They were engineered into the virus with crispr technology.  People can do the research to find out other man made disease those glycoproteins  are in. I don't want anybody potentially putting that disease in me.

When are people going to realize that our government does not have our best interest in mind, and big pharma/the fda certainly can not be trusted?  Think about how much $$$ a covid-19 vaccine would create? Now, think about this in terms of how truly ineffective a cold vaccine( if it existed) or flu vaccine is....both viruses with millions of strains, and constantly mutating....it's absolutely pointless, and really does very little to prevent you from getting sick( in fact, most get sick from the vaccine). We do not have enough data about this virus to even begin to role out a vaccine to the masses, and I highly doubt vaccination would be beneficial to control  infection. If anything, a vaccination released too early or ever, could cause this virus to mutate to a strain that is more resilient, more deadly, and more contagious.  

Well, this is a positive step, and I think will be very valuable to understanding this virus.....

Aren't you the lovely lady I wanted to see when I was in Arlington a few months ago?  

Apology accepted

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