Working at the Regional jail, good retirement gig, will be required. We are in partial lockdown right now because of an outbreak.
I think nursing home patients should be towards the front of the line, but not the front of the line. Just my opinion. Not gonna get butthurt if they are first.
How old are you? Thought they only recommended the shingles for around 65? I haven't gotten mine yet. Costs $100 each and there's two. #cheap
For 50 and up is the recommendation, but I've seen a parent and a friend my age struggle with it in the last 12 months. I don't want any part of that ****. Call me a ***** all you guys want, no thank you. I'm going to take it when I can get it.
My wife first got shingles around the age 41. It was terrible. She got vaccinated earlier this year.
Never realized it was recommended that early. it is a pretty bad virus. I was waiting until golf season was over with. Hear it can make you sick and your arm hurts.
I had chicken pox, red measles but not mumps. Measles made me the sickest I've ever been for 2 weeks. Stayed in a dark room for 2 weeks and that's when my eye sight went bad.
I know I had measles and mumps as a child. I don't recall how sick I was with either. But I do remember having mumps in Bruceton Mills, Preston County at my grandmothers and having to go to Morgantown to a doctor. That was before I-68 and Morgantown was the closest doctor and it was a huge ordeal.
I was in the fourth grade and remember being so sick and having the TV covered in my room so I could have something to do.
Don't think the kids will be the first to get it. JMHO. Kids aren't spreading it in nursing homes.
She, or anyone else with active shingles/chicken pox, could infect you. It’s a herpesvirus and like other herpesviruses, can reoccur. The vaccine protects people from getting infected initially and greatly reduces recurrent events in people whose immuno protection has waned.
Thanks and I've read this before and is the argument for me to get vaccinated. I've also read that if someone with shingles infects me, I will get chickenpox first and not shingles. And I've been vaccinated for chickenpox about 20 years ago and maybe that is why neither my wife or her grandmother, who suffered badly with shingles, has ever infected me. I don't know.
I would vote healthcare workers and first responders first. Protect the folks who have to work with those who who have it, and you'll limit the spread. You could make a good argument for truckers and teachers to be pretty close behind those. That keeps commerce going more safely in two ways: keeps the goods flowing to market and makes sure folks don't have to stay home to monitor their kids' education. I get the nursing home argument, and I'm not saying that it's a bad one. Putting the healthcare workers at the front of the line will offer some protection to that sector though. Based on limited initial availability, I think you have to look at how you can protect the most people and get the most bang for your buck. If the initial release is just enough to cover healthcare workers and nursing home residents, you go that route instead of picking and choosing among a handful of other sectors.