Hat tip to @tando for breaking this news earlier today:
Is there room on this sticker for another cartoon animal?
Guy
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New stickers!
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Wow, messed up…
Some guys in Taichung (primary suspect is owner of Taichung-based biotech company) set up fake vaccination registration website for leftover vaccines and tricked ~700 people into giving away their personal info…
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We’ve just passed 19%.
It took 50 days to reach 1%. The last 3 days each surpassed 1% of the population!
Let the supplies keep coming in!
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Any updates @crusher ? Hope you got your appointment soon. I got two pals in the over 50 no illness with appointments next week.
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6 posts were merged into an existing topic: Questions and Answers about how to get the Coronavirus Vaccine
This is kind of a recap of stories related to covid in Taiwan. Toward the end, it states this:
”疫苗意願登記達814萬人 17萬人1天內變心願打AZ
截至16日下午5時，全國有814萬人登記表明願意接種，其中逾17萬人是在1天內改變心意，願意接種AZ疫苗。”
Roughly: “Over 8 million registered for vaccinations. Among these, 170,000 changed their preference to a willingness to receive AZ in one day.”
Cool. I wonder what happened? In any event, I guess there won’t be a stall in vaccinations due to hesitancy. Not for the next few weeks anyway.
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After my vaccination early yesterday morning, I feel very good today, a bit over 24 hours later. I had a fitful sleep last night. The soreness in my arm got more intense than I expected, and I had a slight headache all throughout the night. And I was thirsty all night so I kept drinking from the 1.5l bottle of water I had next to the bed. But this meant multiple bathroom breaks. I still kept forcing myself back to sleep. I slept 'till 8, which I never do.
And today, I feel fantastic! Almost back to 100%. I would like to run later but I will probably hold off for one more day.
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It’s almost 23 hours since my second AZ vax. I have some minor muscle aches, a light feeling of swelling in my nasal membranes, some wooziness and fatigue, and what feels like the very edge of a headache, like a slight pressure behind my eyes. It’s milder than what I experienced the first time around, which itself was quite mild.
I will be taking it easy today, and perhaps some Panadol if needed.
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Those symptoms might not necessarily be a result of the vaccine. Did you get your flu shot this year yet?
Minister Chen already got his second shot.
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That’s almost a four month wait between shots—15 weeks?
Given the stakes involved now, I would have preferred that man to be vaccinated on schedule.
Guy
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Same here. Rest more, do not exert physically and take lots of water. Mineral water does wonders for me as well as the special drinks from the pharmacy for cold/fever.
Good article to share with old people
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Article quotes a doctor saying that neither vaccine brand is better than another, then cites research showing Pfizer is better 
NTC vaccinated only about 60% of its capacity, and wants to increase people making appointments, iiuc.
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Maybe he has been a bit busy and couldn’t risk it if he had it bad the day after.
Imagine the tabloid headlines if he had a day off sick when the delta variant was knocking around a few weeks ago.
My favorite part is this quote “ However, the US Director of Disease Control, Dr. Foqi, said frankly: “Different vaccines cannot be compared horizontally. This comparison is meaningless.”
Ahh . . . isn’t that exactly what Taiwan plans on doing to support the effectiveness of the domestic vaccines.
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Immonobridging! Also know as ‘creative accounting’ in biotech circles 
yeah I don’t believe much of what the Taiwanese government says. It’s like a door to door salesmen. I’m not going to trust health experts that are going to be using the pfizerBNT vaccine to first vaccinate 13-18year olds. Shows me they don’t have much of an idea how this virus even works.
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