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Last activity 06 June 2021 by Guest6983

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gwynj

I already posted this elsewhere, but I think the Covid Vaccination deserves its own topic...

Here is the Bulgarian website where you can book an appointment for a Covid Vaccination:

https://his.bg/

* This website is in Bulgarian (but, if you prefer English, you can open it with the Google Chrome browser with automatic translation enabled)

* You require a Residence Card (with your personal number), but no EHIC or insurance card.

* It's free of charge.

* You need to print the appointment confirmation, and print and sign the disclaimer form.

* I think they are mostly giving out the Oxford AstraZeneca (AZ) one, although the appointment system did offer me the chance to specify another. So if they are getting deliveries of the Pfizer, you might be able to hold out for this, if you prefer.

I did mine at Pulmed in Plovdiv, which is a very nice shiny new hospital. I think this is very much a YMMV situation, but my side-effects lasted a couple of days, headache, tiredness, aching hand/arm. A week later I was fine.

The nurse gave us appointment cards (rather than it being in the above online system) for 2nd shot in 3 months time.

From what I read, Bulgarians are currently pretty anti-vaccine, so I don't think the vaccination points are super busy. If you have a Residence Permit... and you print the disclaimer form... I suspect you have a pretty good chance of getting it even without an appointment. Or going back for your 2nd shot on a different date.

There are still news items about AZ and clotting events, so I think you need to mull it over, especially, according to a couple of countries, if you are a woman under 55. The risk period is 4 to 20 days after vaccination, and the main warning sign requiring urgent medical attention is severe headache and/or unexplained bruising.


SOME DATA AS of APRIL 4, 2021
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The UK (biggest user of AZ, and has not been paused) has given 18.1 million shots.
0.1% = 18,000
0.001% = 180
0.0002% = 36
0.00005% = 9
Their clotting numbers are 30 cases, with 7 deaths.

Covid data for UK and Bulgaria:

UK population 67 million
cases 4.36 million = 6.5%
deaths 127,000 = 0.2%

BG population 7 million
cases 352,000 = 5%
deaths 13,500 = 0.2%

Statistically, death from Covid is 4,000 times more likely than death from AZ vaccine. Hence, the continued advice from EMA (European Medicines Agency) and UK to take it.

(Note: That's if you treat AZ as causing the clots. This is not proven, and AZ says there are clotting cases that occur in people that take other vaccines, or take no vaccine at all.)

babajaga

Its much easier right now: The "Green Corridors" are open since last Monday.
I got my shot in Burgas in the cities large hospital just on the spot, on Wednesday, without  previous registration.
You have to check actual local infos for this opportunity, as it might be stopped, in case of lack of vaccine.
Astra Zeneca only, AFAIK.

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gwynj

dying of mad cow disease must be devastating

I'd imagine the cows were not happy about it. Boom, boom. :-)

However, I think the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is satisfied that there is no connection between any Covid vaccines and mad cow disease.

Besides, Mad Cow Disease (BSE) is a cow ailment. Us humans get CJD. But fortunately, it's rare (less than 2 in a million, I think). So you can sleep easy. :-)

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gwynj

As of June 2021, the same website has option for "EU DIGITAL COVID CERTIFICATE".

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gwynj

From America's CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention):
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nc … efits.html

"Benefits of Getting a COVID-19 Vaccine

- COVID-19 vaccination will help keep you from getting COVID-19

- Once you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing more

- COVID-19 vaccination is a safer way to help build protection

- COVID-19 vaccination will be an important tool to help stop the pandemic

- COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective

- None of the COVID-19 vaccines can make you sick with COVID-19"

gwynj

Or, as a riposte:
https://amgreatness.com/2021/04/26/i-wo … erals-mad/

"I Won’t Take the Vaccine Because It Makes Liberals Mad

My newly formed and well-developed opinion on vaccines is this: If those bastards want me to get the jab, I’m not going to do it, because it annoys them.

I will never allow myself to be injected with Big Pharma’s mass-produced mystery juice, in part because it was rushed out of the lab and into the manufacturing line like a replacement for a Honda Civic’s recalled airbags.

It just wouldn’t be prudent.

As a healthy 29-year-old, my likelihood of dying from the virus is practically nil, so why risk the blood clots? And before anyone accuses me of trying to murder granny, shouldn’t she be immune to the virus if she gets the vaccine? Whether that’s actually true seems to be the topic of some debate. We’ll have to follow The Science™, then parse through its legitimacy relative to its political value for Democrats (that’s a new step in the scientific method) before we can know for sure."

gwynj

From The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi … ne/618765/

Millions Are Saying No to the Vaccines. What Are They Thinking?

Yes-vaxxer:
"My view of the vaccines begins with my view of the pandemic. I really don’t want to get COVID-19. Not only do I want to avoid an illness with uncertain long-term implications, but I also don’t want to pass it along to somebody in a high-risk category, such as my grandmother or an immunocompromised stranger. For more than a year, I radically changed my life to avoid infection. So I was thrilled to hear that the vaccines were effective at blocking severe illness and transmission. I eagerly signed up to take both my shots, even after reading all about the side effects."

No-vaxxer:
"The coronavirus is a wildly overrated threat. Yes, it’s appropriate and good to protect old and vulnerable people. But I’m not old or vulnerable. If I get it, I’ll be fine. In fact, maybe I have gotten it, and I am fine. I don’t know why I should consider this disease more dangerous than driving a car, a risky thing I do every day without a moment’s worry. Liberals, Democrats, and public-health elites have been so wrong so often, we’d be better off doing the opposite of almost everything they say."

"I don’t need some novel pharmaceutical product to give me permission to do the things I’m already doing. This isn’t even an FDA-approved vaccine; it’s authorized for an emergency. Well, I don’t consider COVID-19 a personal emergency. So why would I sign up to be an early guinea pig for a therapy that I don’t need, whose long-term effects we don’t understand? I’d rather bet on my immune system than on Big Pharma."

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