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I've heard from a few people that being really tired is a common side affect. One of my co-workers got his last week and said that was his issue. 2 of my other co-workers got theirs yesterday. Have not heard from them yet. They took today off as a precaution..

Same, In fact I'm heading out to get it in about 5 minutes.

I don't know if they'd ever make a major, or even a class, on "how to become an influencer" but they do have film schools or acting classes which are basically all the kids need anymore. A decent personality, the ability to edit and post videos and that's about it. Reading the article, I've never heard of the few that he mentions. But there are definitely some decent ones out there that do try to put out positive messages out in the world. I don't think it's fair to paint all of them with such a broad brush or judge them all based on the behavior of the worst of them. There are a handful of Youtubers (which is basically the same thing) that I like to watch that make some pretty good content without being assholes about it. Markaplier Anthony Padilla Smoshcast (which is where Anthony got his start) Dudedad jacksepticeye Kitboga (he makes hilarious videos where he wastes hours and sometimes days frustrating scammers) Jessica Kent (who I just recently discovered and talks a lot about time she spent in prison and how she's turned her life around) That's not to mention the many that I've found over the years that mostly make content for specific games like Kingdom Hearts, or Red Dead Redemption or MLB the Show.

I think it's more like open everything up, go back to "normal" and whoever dies is collateral damage.

Meanwhile my company is having everyone return to working fully in the office on May 3rd. Probably 75% of our employees have been been working from home since November.

I'm not trying to twist anything. I read something you posted and responded. I only glanced at your other post because i couldn't tell which were your comments and which were the ones you were responding to. So I guess I didn't fully understand that you were specifically talking about a single ballpark in a single city when you said "outside baseball games". I was just pointing out a time/place where we would be worried about them. In a city that allows full capacity at their baseball games with zero restrictions. Apparently they aren't doing that in the Chicago stadiums so that's good.

I literally quoted your post. I never saw you mention that you were specifically talking about Chicago or limited capacity before I made that first post.

I was responding to your comment of "If masks and socially distancing work, why are you worried about outside baseball games? " That picture is why. Zero masks and zero social distancing.

First shot done. Gotta schedule the second one for sometime in April.

Just got an email from the county health department to schedule an appointment. Set for my first shot next week.

FWIW, the virus itself could lay you out for a lot longer than 3 days and has been known to cause lasting symptoms in a lot of people. Alll the vaccines have been proven to be 100% effective at preventing hospitalization and death. Get the shot as soon as you can.

I thought it was some store chain that I had never heard of. Never heard anyone abbreviate it like that.

What in the world is Wag's?

I saw this video today that explains it pretty well.

My co-worker finally found an opening to get his shot. He only has to drive 2 hours one-way...

One of my ex-coworkers said he knew a guy that made a pretty good living traveling around the country and working for different businesses by converting their old COBOL code into newer languages. One of my first projects at my current job was converting an entire system over from Access 97 to a Windows application built in VB.net.

The biggest issue is that it's simply not a language that is taught anymore. I know the local community college where I learned it no longer offers it. I checked NIU (which partners with our CC) and they have one single class on it.

I'm sure I've mentioned this before but I spent 16 years programming in COBOL. My last job was thrilled to find me because I knew the language and was under the age of 40. It's one of those things where it's not broken and it's been working just fine for the last 50 years, so a lot of companies don't want to spend the massive amount of time and money it would take to upgrade all their systems to something newer. The problem they are running into instead is that they average age of their programmers is usually 55+ and they can't find younger talent to take over when their current people inevitably start to retire.

At this point I'm going to wait until my HR gets something setup for all the employees at my workplace or they are readily available at CVS/Walgreens or whatever without having to schedule an appointment. I've been signed up with my local heath department since early February and every time I check CVS/Walgreens websites they say nothing is available within 25 miles.

Gotcha. I think I read your first post too fast.

Where is that 50,000 coming from? AFAIK, our current death toll is already over 500,000.

People like this... https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oklahoma-diner-coronavirus-shot_n_6052f9bec5b672d709819d38

That's like asking why there are so many different kinds of frozen pizza at the grocery store.

Plans are underway for me to get mine through my employer. They are working with the county heath department. No details yet but they just sent out an initial email yesterday to gauge interest among employees.