29 JUL 2021- via DJ: 'Vaccination in Tumbaco / Cumbaya - Quito, Ecuador update: "Okay, guys, so it turns out you can go anytime on or AFTER your assigned day. They are open from 8 AM to 5 PM, 7 days a week. I went to Corazon de Maria just off the Parque Central in Tumbaco. There's also a site in Cumbaya, but I don't know where.
I waited until I could get vacation time from work (and I'm really glad I did) and I went 2 weeks after my assigned date, which was no problem.
After waiting for hours, it was my turn next with my assigned group of 6. They came out of the room and told us they had run out of vaccines! They promised to let us in first the next day if we got there at 8 AM.
I went back the next day and saw a 7-hour line, but they kept their word and let us in before anyone else. It still took one hour from the time we entered until all was done.
Efficiency is not their strong point. They take people in groups of 6 into the vax room. Then each person has to give their data to an intake worker while the person who gives the shots does nothing.
It takes a few seconds to get the shot, but it takes a few minutes to give the intake info. Wouldn't it make more sense to get the intake info during the hours of waiting before people enter the vax room? That would turn a 5-hour wait into a 1-hour wait (at most).
The shot itself is super-easy, even for people who are phobic about needles (like me). I didn't even feel it. I wondered if I'd even gotten it until my arm started hurting later in the day.
After the shot, I walked for 45 minutes because I'd read that it's good to move the arm afterwards plus I figured if I waited I'd be too sick to exercise later in the day.
As the day went on, I got a bad headache and I was quite tired. I slept on and off. That night, the headache was pretty bad, but I was able to sleep most of the time. Day 2, the headache continued and I was really tired and had to sleep a lot. Day 3, I woke up feeling almost normal.
I am really glad I waited until I had time off from work.
There's no way I would have been able to work, and since I couldn't get the vax the first day I went, I needed at least a few days off.
They gave me the Pfizer. I actually tried to get the Sinovac because I'd read that it had fewer side effects, but they were only giving Sinovac as a 2nd dose.
I plan to go for Round Two in mid-August. I've heard the 2nd round is worse than the first, so we'll see. They told me to just show up anytime from 21 days on.
Overall the process was easy and organized except for the ridiculous wait times which are a result of them waiting to get the intake info when the people enter the vax room.
I'm relieved to be through Round One. Not looking forward to Round Two, but it will be over soon enough." -
KS: "If you get an awful headache....more like a migraine which pretty much stops you from being able to do anything and makes you feel physically sick (which happened to me) then you can get a wonderful thing called Migrax from a pharmacy which will end it. Or at least it worked for me. I'd only recommend it if it is incredibly painful and debilitating."
( Photo below: Free beer if you take the killShot so-called vaxx)
🤠iffin you gonna move down or remain in Ecuador on into 2025, get prepared for whats a coming down the pike🥷🏼its not and has not been just a Coastal & #GYE thang, its also a Sierra & Metro #Quito Thanggy as well👮🏻♂️💰
My 2025 NewYears Resolution is more time out on the La G range, zz style, 🎸🥁🎸 cuzz (imho) we gonna dang sure be a needin it🥷🏼if anybody wants to no longer be an outlaw? Call me to join our Qtowne Quito gun club and get legal to tote with a 55hr CCW Course,
now a days The CCW is pretty much streamlined down to this:
plan on about $300 for to join the gun club,about $200 or up to $300 for the CCW course,about $300 for psyche, psycho and toxico exams,
a 9mm Taurus for say $1200.
a 9mm CZ for say $1500.
aprox $80 to $100 for a box of 50rds 9mm FMJ
i see peeps now a days getting legally armed in about a 3-4 months time frame, kinda like a tuff assed visa process!
'Always be prepared' - BSA & SA,
"When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" - Louis L'Amour (1908-1988) Western novelist of ...
23SEP26 #Ecuador 🇪🇨 "An analysis published by CNN en Español examines several Latin American presidents who maintain political ties with Donald Trump and who, after winning elections with radical rhetoric, face social, economic, or governance challenges.
Among the cases examined are Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa , along with Javier Milei in Argentina; José Antonio Kast in Chile; Rodrigo Paz in Bolivia; and Nayib Bukele in El Salvador. CNN also analyzes recently inaugurated presidents in Honduras, Peru, and Colombia.
The publication argues that these leaders capitalized on public discontent with traditional governments and parties by proposing economic adjustments, security measures, and confrontation with their adversaries. However, it posits that this electoral strategy faces limitations when it must translate into effective governance.
Ecuador: security under question
In the Ecuadorian case, CNN focuses part of its analysis on the security strategy promoted by Noboa.
The president declared the internal armed conflict in ...
16SEP26💯%Choneros🚀"On Sept. 16, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere (JTF-WHEM)
forces successfully interdicted a floating refueling station supporting illicit at-sea drug trafficking operations in the Eastern Pacific.
Intelligence confirmed the vessel's involvement with the Los Choneros violent narco-terrorist organization.
Individuals removed from the vessel have been transferred to Ecuadorian authorities. After clearing the vessel and disembarking the crew, U.S. forces sank it.
JTF-WHEM continues to conduct precise and professional operations to dismantle the logistical networks fueling narco-trafficking in the Western Hemisphere.
"Alongside our Ecuadorian partners, we are relentlessly pursuing narco-terrorists who prey on our citizens,
undermine hemispheric security, and leave death and suffering in their wake. This deliberate, lawful, and precise operation saves lives and makes our citizens—from Ecuador to the United States—safer." -
SOUTHCOM ...
"It is an absurdity, it is laughable, to speak of such a
pending disaster as "The End of the World."
We are discussing the end of Humanity, or we are discussing the
end of Civilization, or we are perhaps even discussing
the end of some this or that Empire that we mistakenly
believe to identify with.
The end of the world will come when the sun
expands and engulfs it.
Now, is it truly a surprise that our discourse relates
economic tragedy with an ecological one?
That we actually behave as though a marked downturn in
the Market can somehow be compared to the death of Nature?
We are so enamored with our vastness and resource that we have forgotten the lark and the sparrow.
So I say, come armageddon. Come, you horsemen.
Let us speak these things no more."
— Takici Kaneko, 1934 - 'SteamPunk Magazine' 3-A4
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