It appears that Virginia is following the national guidance to move people 65-74 or with risk factors up in terms of when they might get vaccinated against covid-19. This puts me in Virginia Group 1B rather than 1C. Given that the local county is still handling Group 1A, it will likely be a while. Still, it's nice to know I might get vaccinated sooner than expected.
In my skimming of news sites this morning, I actually had to scroll way further down to get to any coronavirus news. Between impeachment and inauguration, there wasn't much room for covid. For some impeachment humor, The Lame Duck has now been impeached more times than he has been elected to office, and the same number of times as he has lost the popular vote in a presidential election. I gather he is not laughing about any of this, which is as it should be. It had been announced that Rudy Giuliani and Alan Dershowitz would defend him in any impeachment trial, but it appears that Rudy is not in The Duck's good graces at the moment. The Duck has stopped repayment of the expenses Rudy incurred traveling around the country challenging election results. Ouch!
It appears that a couple of House of Representatives Republicans may have taken organizers of the Capitol demonstration/protest/insurrection on private tours of the Capitol the day before the shit went down. If that can be proven, it's a big thing, a very big thing. I would hope that the House would at least censure them if not impeach them. Or perhaps Justice can lay some federal charges on them.
The fact that 10 House Republicans voted for impeachment is seen positively by a lot of people. However, 93 percent of the House Republicans voted against impeachment. And two-thirds of House Republicans voted against certifying Uncle Joe's election even after the Capitol insurrection. (I think I like the sound of that better than "riot.") And in other, wider polling, 64 percent of Republicans say that they support The Lame Duck's recent behavior. Did I put enough stress on "recent"? And 57 percent think he should be the Republican candidate for President in 2024. Only 17 percent think that he should be removed from office.
As long as we're on polling results, people were asked if they would agree that America is falling apart. I was actually a bit surprised that more Republicans agreed than Democrats, 83 percent to 78 percent. Seventy-nine percent of Independents agreed.
Info is coming out about the events of Inauguration Day. I was particularly interested in Lady Gaga's singing the National Anthem. I really hope she doesn't glam it up as some artists do. I think it's safe to say that she won't do the Roseanne crotch grab.
As I said, it was actually difficult to wade through the politics to get to the pandemic. As evidence that it takes a while for a vaccine to be effective and/or two doses might be critical, the Representatives who got covid from hiding with unmasked colleagues had gotten their first of two vaccine doses in the two days before the insurrection. With needing a second dose comes remembering which vaccine you got. The second dose of the Pfizer vaccine should be given 21 days after the first, while for the Moderna vaccine, it's 28 days from first to second.
In general coronavirus news, we're still fucked, possibly more than ever. There may be a variant strain of covid in the US, slightly different from the one in England. Pandemic fatigue appears to be growing. People are tired of masks and social distancing. Some will still keep practicing those, but more will toss the mask and get shoulder-to-shoulder or, worse, face-to-face with each other. That there is now a vaccine may be a factor as well. It may not matter to some that a vaccine only works after it's given (in the right dose, on the right schedule), and there's no real treatment other than treating whatever symptoms with which someone presents.
And to take your mind off politics and pandemics, the CIA says that it has opened all its UFO documents on theblackvault.com. I'm not sure I need to clear my mind that badly ... yet.
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With your first jab comes a little card telling you what you got and when to present yourself for the second. I think it has the batch number on but I'd have to check to be sure. Mum is now six days after vaccination.
I have checked and the little card does indeed have the batch number on it. As we are on the 21 days -12 weeks - who knows? schedule then there is no date filled in for the second jab.
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