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Old Apr 10th 2021, 10:11 pm
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Originally Posted by ddsrph
Air Force basic training San Antonio in 67. They used the pneumatic guns injecting into left and right arms as you moved thru the line.
Lackland AFB, I'm guessing. I remember getting some kind of shot (smallpox??) with one of those injection guns when I was a kid. Lots of people had that scar on their upper arm from those guns.

https://whyy.org/segments/how-to-spo...t-left-a-scar/
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Old Apr 10th 2021, 10:44 pm
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Originally Posted by jkeller
Lackland AFB, I'm guessing. I remember getting some kind of shot (smallpox??) with one of those injection guns when I was a kid. Lots of people had that scar on their upper arm from those guns.

https://whyy.org/segments/how-to-spo...t-left-a-scar/
Right Lackland. I have heard if you move your arm at just the wrong time you can get a nasty cut from the high pressure guns.
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Did those injection guns use the same needle on everyone? They were before my time, as was small pox vaccine so I don't have the scar that article talks about.
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Old Apr 10th 2021, 11:02 pm
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
Did those injection guns use the same needle on everyone? They were before my time, as was small pox vaccine so I don't have the scar that article talks about.
No needle, high pressure injectors. The early ones could spread disease from one to the next patient, see fluid suck back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector
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Old Apr 10th 2021, 11:48 pm
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Originally Posted by johnwoo
How many posting here have served in the Armed Forces. I remember getting about six shots one after the other, sometimes two at the same time.
No question about of being squeamish about getting shots. To this day I have no idea what I was getting the jabs for.
Early microchip probably.
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Originally Posted by johnwoo
How many posting here have served in the Armed Forces. I remember getting about six shots one after the other, sometimes two at the same time.
No question about of being squeamish about getting shots. To this day I have no idea what I was getting the jabs for.
Originally Posted by ddsrph
Air Force basic training San Antonio in 67. They used the pneumatic guns injecting into left and right arms as you moved thru the line.
Originally Posted by jkeller
Lackland AFB, I'm guessing. I remember getting some kind of shot (smallpox??) with one of those injection guns when I was a kid. Lots of people had that scar on their upper arm from those guns.

https://whyy.org/segments/how-to-spo...t-left-a-scar/
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Early microchip probably.
Ah, that would explain the scar, microchips were much bigger in those days...
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Originally Posted by sid nv
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Best of all, we were not asked for ID, medical insurance, or credit cards. Quite remarkable.
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Hopefully, they DO ask for your name and address, at least!? There's no way they can implement any sort of vaccine passport if they don't keep track of who's had it.
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Originally Posted by jkeller
No needle, high pressure injectors. The early ones could spread disease from one to the next patient, see fluid suck back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector
How very 'Star Trek' sounding! On Star Trek, they cure every ailment known to man with a 'schwissssh' injection to the neck! So whenever I hear about this being done in real life, I always think 'how futuristic'!
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Ah, that would explain the scar, microchips were much bigger in those days...
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Originally Posted by Steerpike
Hopefully, they DO ask for your name and address, at least!? There's no way they can implement any sort of vaccine passport if they don't keep track of who's had it.
We filled out paper forms, but were not asked for ID (driver's licence). I guess we are already in the CDC system from the 1st shot.
As to home address, as it happens the day before I was speaking on the phone to someone who lives in an adjacent county and pointing him to the booking website. He said there were no available appointments in his county until August, but it looked like he could travel to this county to be vaccinated, so there seems to be some flexibility in crossing county lines.

In any case it looks like there will soon be a surplus of vaccines in the US, with a significant number of people saying they are not planning to receive a vaccine.

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Originally Posted by Steerpike
Hopefully, they DO ask for your name and address, at least!? There's no way they can implement any sort of vaccine passport if they don't keep track of who's had it.
I put all that in to VAMS, they only wanted my name when I checked in. I got the first shot of Moderna, they gave me a CDC card with my name and DOB and put on a sticker with the date and Lot number of the shot. Assume they add a another when I go back for the double tap shot.

While you may be worried about getting a vacine passport there is a less documented part of the population that won’t go to be vaccinated if ID and address etc is required, so the less friction / requirements the better so we can reach herd immunity, especially when they work in jobs that can’t be done from home like meat packing and other agriculture like fruit picking where they may work in close proximity to others for long periods.
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Today is day 22 after our first AZ shot. From what I have read we should be approx 75% protected.
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Originally Posted by Steerpike
Hopefully, they DO ask for your name and address, at least!? There's no way they can implement any sort of vaccine passport if they don't keep track of who's had it.
I got my 1st Pfizer in the U.S., as a visiting Canadian citizen here, showing a Canadian driver licence for my ID, & for $ free, simply by volunteering at a local walking-distance pharmacy to be available at ultrashort notice to front-up to receive an expiring/unclaimed end-of-day Pfizer dose. I got the call to come back down to that pharmacy asap within a couple of hours of having dropped-off my name & birthday & phone number & temporary local U.S. address with the pharmacy's manager, who merely asked if I'd be able to stick around to get my 2nd dose in 3wks' time.

So U.S. pharmacies are able & willing to administer end-of-day Pfizer doses to anybody who volunteers to be on hand to receive them, foreign visitors to the U.S. included. And they'll then automatically book you in for the 2nd shot, no problem.
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Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
Today is day 22 after our first AZ shot. From what I have read we should be approx 75% protected.
So are you planning on getting the 2nd AZ?
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So are you planning on getting the 2nd AZ?
Yup.
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