Yes. A nurse uses a hypodermic needle to inject the vaccine, typically into your shoulder.
“Shot” has always been the most common shorthand for a vaccination, at least in this part of Canada, but for some reason “jab” has become really - and very irritatingly - popular during this pandemic.
I say “shot” or “jab” pretty interchangeably. I think the latter is a bit of a Britishism (“We got our jabs when we went to the Isle of Wight”) and I’m enough of an anglophile that I’ve incorporated it into my own vocab. I also have enough conversations about the vaccine process that saying one word over and over gets on my nerves, and thank Buddha we’ve got synonyms, I figure.
I’m an American and grew up with “shots” but i like “jab” better. There isn’t really any other common use of the word “jab”. It’s not a drink. It’s not something you hear during a gun fight.
And I guess, also because you can use it as…a part participle? “I was jabbed three weeks ago” vs. “i got my shots the weeks ago”. Or, “have you been jabbed?” vs. “have you been vaccinated?”
Its “shot” or “vaccine” amongst my crowd (in Vancouver). Occasionally I’ve heard “poke.” I don’t recall hearing “jab” or “jabbed.”
I’ve heard both “shot” and “jabbed”. Haven’t heard “poked”.
You might find that ‘poked’ means something else entirely down here in the US.
Just read a local news article. They used both “shot” and “jab” interchangeably in the same story.
Ontario’s COVID cases were well under 300 again yesterday. (Officially 296 were logged but apparently some were data from long ago, for some reason.) Clearly, the vaccines are driving the R value under 1.
Why we’re opening as slowly as we are continues to mystify me. The targets are hit.
Same reason the Premier waffled on schooling - the shellacking he took based on “gut feels” in the previous wave have made him (and his party) very conservative (ha!).
I like what we’re doing in BC. We had vaccination targets, but also specific dates when restrictions will be lifted - firm dates. This has allowed businesses to predict with more confidence and plan better. For example, restaurants have been able to put hiring plans in place, and come up with start dates for employees for when table service resumed. Businesses like forward planning, in general.
Exactly this. Ford has stepped on so many rakes in the past year in terms of action/result, that he doesn’t dare risk it. If he overrules his health advisors and opens things up quickly, and there’s a sudden spike that isn’t even his fault (I don’t like DoFo but he’s not personally sneezing the Delta variant at citizens) that necessitates another big shutdown, he’s finished as far as reelection goes. If he sticks the the very slow timetable, should anything go wrong afterwards he can revert to his usual pattern of blaming the public (“I know I said the malls could open up again but I didn’t say anyone should go to the mall! Come on, folks!”).
I’m sure you all can guess how I feel about pandemic response based on election forecasting.
No kidding. Best thing Horgan did here in BC was to remove himself as much as possible from the appearance of making political decisions… He probably still does, but he has limited putting his mug in front of the camera, deferring to our medical health officer and minister of health.
Just booked my 2nd shot, just a few days more than 8 weeks after the first. They say it will be either Pfizer or Moderna, no choice given on the day. I believe Canada is getting a butt-load of Moderna now.
From what I’ve read, they are both very similar, with minor differences in the lipid fraction. I’ve seen them compared to coke v. pepsi. Basically different branding and minor differences. I’m OK with either.
Hubs and I both moved our second shots up a few weeks.
In 10 days we’ll both be fully vaccinated! Yay! (Pfizer)
I’m pretty sure he’s been “finished as far as reelection goes” for quite some time now. He got a good bump at the start of the pandemic, but has subsequently messed up just about everything else. Even people I knew who supported him prior to the pandemic have been complaining about his weak and inconsistent leadership the past 6 months or so.
The thing is, there are political decisions that needed to be made, and defended. One example (my above mentioned friends like to complain about) was closing golf courses last year and not re-opening immediately this spring when the weather allowed.
From a scientific standpoint, golf is one of the safer recreation activities. It’s outdoors, and if you restrict it to one person per golf cart, it’s inherently socially distanced. Everyone brings their own equipment, and no one shares any of that equipment. Letting the golf courses open with very few new restrictions would likely have had virtually no impact on the number of new COVID cases.
But politically? Letting one of the most expensive and exclusive sports there is continue, while shutting down most other sports like football, baseball, and hockey? The backlash against letting the rich people have their fun while telling everyone else to stay inside would have been epic.
So, closing golf was probably the right political choice. But it also needed to be explained and sold on this basis, not pretending it was about the science. Some sort of “We’re all in this together!” kind of messaging. And that never seemed to happen. So now everyone is pissed off at Ford, no matter what political persuasion they are.
Managed to get a booking through the provincial portal after all, late afternoon on Friday. Not at the huge Scotia record-setting attempt, but at the MTCC. Apparently the trick is, when confronted with a bunch of options that are all filled when you click on them, just toggle back and forth between days and refresh until something opens up. Which makes sense…at 4:15PM there’s not one lone person getting their shot in that room, but they have to fill each 4:15 slot one at a time.
Curious to see if Rexall ever actually contacts me. A co-worker who also got his first one at the same location, but seven days after I got mine, had his second jab yesterday afternoon while I haven’t gotten any new notice. They seem to be jumping around a bit with their callbacks.
Costco has never rescheduled my second shot. I received an email saying “we’re working on it!”, but nothing since. Luckily I didn’t wait on them and I will be two weeks complete next Tuesday.
I managed to get my my wife and kids scheduled for the Vax-o-thon (Vax-o-Rama?) at the ScotiaBank Arena on Tuesday. Toronto is now aiming for a one day event with at least 25,000 shots.