# Speeding up the Vaccine Shots **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [December 14, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-up-the-vaccine-shots/928045 "2020-12-14T19:28:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-up-the-vaccine-shots/928045/41 "2020-12-18T21:11:30Z")
I’ve also read that there are theoretical reasons to think a nasal vaccine, like flumist, might be better for covid. I think some are in development. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-up-the-vaccine-shots/928045/42 "2020-12-18T22:42:14Z")
Too bad you couldn’t just waft “covidmist” vaccine continuously in certain places. I’m going to be very annoyed if a large enough contingent refuses to be vaccinated that we can’t go back to mostly normal. Want to enter a sports arena? Pass through the mist room. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-up-the-vaccine-shots/928045/43 "2020-12-19T00:42:35Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > Want to enter a sports arena? Pass through the mist room. Pass through the mist room at 3 and 6 weeks before the sports or concert event would be needed. Flu mist vaccinations take as long to administer as an injection. The flu mist vaccine also proved to be less efficacious in some age groups than injectable versions-that might be a hurdle to herd immunity. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-up-the-vaccine-shots/928045/44 "2020-12-19T01:53:05Z")
Yes, I know those things. I’m not saying it would make it safe that time. I’m saying it’s too bad we can’t just “mist” the people who refuse, while they go about their business. And I’m saying “it’s too bad” because I also know all the reasons why we don’t, and can’t, do that. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-up-the-vaccine-shots/928045/45 "2020-12-19T02:54:04Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > I’m saying it’s too bad we can’t just “mist” the people who refuse, while they go about their business Got it. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-up-the-vaccine-shots/928045/46 "2020-12-19T04:25:46Z")
> [@Keeve](#): > > I understood the OP’s description very clearly, and (thanks to gdave telling me its name) the Wikipedia article on [jet injectors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector) confirms my memory that this is how they distributed the swine flu vaccine. There’s about a thousand sordid stories in that single [photograph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector#/media/File:8365_loresOLDSCHOOL.jpg) in the Wiki article. If I wasn’t so lazy I’d start a short fiction contest thread based on it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speeding-up-the-vaccine-shots/928045.md?page=2)