I got the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. Now what?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

I got the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. Now what?

Don’t panic. U.S. health officials on Tuesday recommended pausing vaccinations with J&J’s shot as they look into reports of six clots out of nearly 7 million doses given in the country.

Health officials say to be vigilant, but to remember that reports of blood clots that may be associated with J&J’s single-dose vaccine are exceedingly rare.

“It’s less than one in a million,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease specialist.

https://apnews.com/article/johnson-johnson-vaccine-pause-rare-blood-clots-9d3e04604a6873030eeecaa38a360a40

[ret5hd]

1. Place your computer mouse...

over the injection site for a minimum of 5 seconds. This will allow your computer to read the microchip and register it with the government.

Then, enjoy your own personal tracking drone!

[Celerity]

6. Microscopic 'smart dust' sensors are set to revolutionise a range of sectors

Networks of tiny sensors known as ‘smart dust’ are on the cusp of reinventing the Internet of Things. These devices will unlock unprecedented levels of data collection, but their development unearths important security questions

https://www.theneweconomy.com/technology/microscopic-smart-dust-sensors-are-set-to-revolutionise-a-range-of-sectors

The future of computing is microscopic. For decades, technology has followed the same pattern: as speed and capability increase, cost and size shrink. It can be seen in the transformation from the mainframes of the 1960s that filled entire rooms to the bulky PCs that became ubiquitous in the 1990s to the paper-thin laptops, tablets and smartphones we use today. “Based on that [trend], we should be arriving very soon at millimetre-scale computing systems,” said David Blaauw, a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of Michigan, who has spent decades working to miniaturise computing systems.

In 1997, the researcher Kristofer Pister coined the term ‘smart dust’ to describe these millimetre-sized devices. Pister and his colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, aimed to create a network of sensors made up of tiny wireless computer systems called ‘motes’. Acting as microscopic eyes, ears and arms, these motes could rove around the world collecting all kinds of data: visual, thermal, chemical and biological. In theory, smart dust could revolutionise industries by reaching places scientists never thought possible.

Internet of Things 2.0

Since Pister first presented the idea of smart dust, the concept of building a distributed network of wireless microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) has only gained steam. Although it may sound like a radical concept, smart dust is the natural next step for today’s Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT market has quickly established itself as an essential component of the modern world. Devices vary wildly, from consumer technologies like smart thermostats to products designed for the corporate world, such as small sensors that monitor oil wells to ensure optimised production.

In 2017 there were already 27 billion connected IoT devices, but by 2030, research firm IHS Markit expects the number to more than quadruple to 125 billion devices. Dust Networks, a company founded by Pister that is now owned by US semiconductor firm Analog Devices, has successfully deployed one-centimetre scale sensors in several commercial markets, including oil refineries, Pister told The New Economy: “That technology is still selling and being deployed today.”

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Here Comes ‘Smart Dust,’ the Tiny Computers That Pull Power from the Air

A world covered in sensors that don’t require batteries is near at hand

https://www.wsj.com/articles/here-comes-smart-dust-the-tiny-computers-that-pull-power-from-the-air-1541689224



The idea of a perpetual machine—one that, once set in motion, never stops—is preposterous. The energy it needs must come from somewhere. But a twist on the idea, where energy is sponged from the environment to power ultra-efficient devices, isn’t a fantasy. Some people even call it perpetual computing.

These energy-harvesting machines can already be as small as a stack of three quarters, and there’s no law of physics that says they couldn’t someday shrink enough to hide anywhere. Imagine tiny sensors—for sound, vibration, chemicals, light, motion—that don’t require power lines or battery changes.

The first wave will be unobtrusive sensors with onboard computing and wireless radios with a range of as much as a kilometer. Most early applications people have in mind for them are already being accomplished by their wired or battery-fed brethren—the kinds of sensors that make factories, homes and our wearables “smart.”

Eventually, researchers believe these tiny, always-on devices could enable us to do things that aren’t realistic today, such as sticking small security cameras wherever we like, instrumenting every square meter of a farm, or filling our cars and homes with sensors that increase both our safety and the usefulness of our most expensive assets. They’ve coined a term to describe the potential ubiquity of such sensors: “smart dust.”

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[MontanaMama]

2. I got the J&J too.

March 10th...I’m not that concerned. The reports I’ve read stated that the people who had problems had them within a week to 20mdays after the shot and may have had low platelet counts. I’m sure we will lean more in the coming days. I’m thrilled to be one and done until the inevitable booster, of course.

[Ms. Toad]

3. And IF you experience symptoms that might be this clotting disorder -

make sure to mention the vaccine to the treating physician.

(The normal treatment clotting disorders is likely to make this particular clotting disorder more deadly)

[Jarqui]

4. "It's less than one in a million," Dr Fauci

Throughout my life, we've always been confronted with things like this.

My Dad was having a bypass in the last 80s. 1/200 chance a reaction to the angiogram would kill him. 1/300 chance the surgery would kill him. He survived. An employee's father having a similar procedure didn't.

They tell you when they give you a general anesthetic before surgery there is a small chance you won't ever wake up.

They knew when they first prescribed coumadin that a bunch of people would die from a
hemorrhage of some sort. And a number of people did and still do. But a heck of a lot more people have lived longer, healthier lives without a stroke or delaying when they have a stroke by many years.

Have you every listened to the ads for some medications that spend 15 seconds on the good they do and the balance of 45 seconds on how they might ruin your life with all the bad side effects that do not commonly happen.

"one in a million" is a great figure when 1 in 600 Americans have died from Covid and that number is growing. And many more times that are ill long term. To date, no one who has been vaccinated has died from or been hospitalized by Covid.

I'm sorry for the one in a million who might be reading this and croak because the were jabbed with the J&J vaccine. But the other 999,999 who got the J&J vaccine will not die from or be hospitalized by Covid. In medical terms, that's a great deal - a no-brainer.

[stopdiggin]

8. +1 exactly right

And (second guessing I'll admit) but it almost makes me wonder whether this 'abundance of caution" is the right approach in this situation. I think the numbers would argue otherwise.

[StarryNite]

5. What about the other 4 people...

One person died. One is in critical condition. What about the other 4? How bad off were they? How were they treated? How are they doing now?

[stopdiggin]

7. Now, nothing

You're a 1000% better off (and safer) for having had the shot -- and nervous nellieing around about it is only going to add stress as a possible negative health outcome. So -- check a book out of the library, and treat yourself to an ice-cream!

(thanks for the post/info)