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I just got the vaccine, and considering my aunt's both got sick when they got theirs, I'm wondering if that new law in California covers that? On one hand, don't want to miss work on a busy day. On the other hand, I can't exactly come to work sick as balls.

Also, can I fold my vaccination card? Thing is the size of my wallet but I want to take it with me just in case.

Thx.
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If you get fired for getting the vaccine, your job sucks anyway.

The vaccine doesn't make you sick and doesn't contain a virus capable of infecting you; it makes your body produce a response designed to kill pathogens by introducing foreign proteins (mRNA), but not in the form of a virus. What that will be like is a product of your own immune system. I had just mild discomfort around the injection site and felt a little off for the day, but that was it. Other people will have more intense pain and a fever. Never actually seen anyone who had it bad enough that they had to stay in bed all day or anything like that, and you're definitely not going to be contagious or anything since you're not being infected with anything.

Whether you can ask for a day off from work is somewhat based on your employment contract, but I'm pretty sure if you have actually been given earned sick days, they can't prevent you from using them.

Not sure about the vaccine card thing. It's possible to just ask for a new one if you got it from a healthcare agency if it's needed, and I don't think there's any sort of technology in use that would be inhibited by folding it, but I can't find anything online that mentions it.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

If you get fired for getting the vaccine, your job sucks anyway.

Fair enough. But onto the vaccine card question...?
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the_rowan posted...

The vaccine doesn't make you sick and doesn't contain a virus capable of infecting you; it makes your body produce a response designed to kill pathogens by introducing foreign proteins (mRNA), but not in the form of a virus. What that will be like is a product of your own immune system. I had just mild discomfort around the injection site and felt a little off for the day, but that was it. Other people will have more intense pain and a fever. Never actually seen anyone who had it bad enough that they had to stay in bed all day or anything like that, and you're definitely not going to be contagious or anything since you're not being infected with anything.

Not sure about the vaccine card thing. It's possible to just ask for a new one if you got it from a healthcare agency if it's needed, and I don't think there's any sort of technology in use that would be inhibited by folding it, but I can't find anything online that mentions it.

Yeah, fever and nausea won't work well if I'm around Pizza, which I will be considering the job.

Things my aunt's and my friend experienced after getting it.

Grandma was fine though.
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the_rowan posted...

The vaccine doesn't make you sick and doesn't contain a virus capable of infecting you;

That second shot has been kicking my ass all week.

Slayer_22 posted...

Fair enough. But onto the vaccine card question...?

I was told not to laminate it. Nothing on the card or the stack paperwork mentions anything about folding it.

the_rowan posted...

The vaccine doesn't make you sick and doesn't contain a virus capable of infecting you; it makes your body produce a response designed to kill pathogens by introducing foreign proteins (mRNA), but not in the form of a virus. What that will be like is a product of your own immune system. I had just mild discomfort around the injection site and felt a little off for the day, but that was it. Other people will have more intense pain and a fever. Never actually seen anyone who had it bad enough that they had to stay in bed all day or anything like that, and you're definitely not going to be contagious or anything since you're not being infected with anything.

Not sure about the vaccine card thing. It's possible to just ask for a new one if you got it from a healthcare agency if it's needed, and I don't think there's any sort of technology in use that would be inhibited by folding it, but I can't find anything online that mentions it.

Pfizer knocked my girlfriend on her ass for a week. I thought she was being a baby, but I went over to her place to see her and she looked fucking awful and wasn't herself. Hers was the worst reaction I've heard about. I felt a little groggy and my arm hurt like hell.

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metallica846 posted...

Take a picture of the vaccine card. You dont want to laminate it because they still have to write on it for the second shot and the inevitable booster.

Fair enough. I'll do just that.
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Slayer_22 posted...

Also, can I fold my vaccination card?

take pics of it and prob won't matter ?

the_rowan posted...

The vaccine doesn't make you sick and doesn't contain a virus capable of infecting you

It's pretty obvious that TC didn't mean "sick" in the sense of "infectious with covid", simply in the sense of "suffering from side effects".

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