• dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    I’ve had every recommended booster, got it from my dentist in July 2023 and spent a solid week in bed with what rivaled the worst flu I’d ever had. Actual flu, not “it’s just the flu, bro” bullshit.

    This was followed by a month of a wet racking cough and very congested lungs. I have no idea how much the vaccines and boosters reduced the severity of lessened any long covid, but I got my booster last year (months later) and will be doing so again very soon this year.

    Why the hell would anyone want this virus?

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      2 months ago

      Amazingly my coworker who has escaped it says she wants it to get it over with. I sort of understand the waiting for the other shoe to drop feeling, but I’d rather never have had it. I got it on a trip on the way back from Mexico when I was wearing an N95 the whole time.

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        There’s nothing to “get over with.” She can continue to get it after having it before, and every time makes the potential risks higher. I’ve managed to avoid it so far (as far as I know,) but I know my luck will run out eventually. Just hoping to get it as few times as possible.

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          Due to my OCD I’m almost a hikikomori and I get the virus. I don’t know how. I work from home and I don’t go to parties or things like that.

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            2 months ago

            It’s SUPER transmissible. I have no clue why my wife and I haven’t gotten it because she in particular has had several times where she was in close proximity with infected individuals at work. Maybe we have and were asymptomatic, or maybe we’ve just been lucky…so far.

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        My granddaughter is in the same camp. Fully vaccinated for everything else you’d expect, but completely bought into the repackaged HPV vaccine hysteria that got grafted onto the Covid vaccines. So she’s had it 5 times, including one that she describes as ‘that time I almost died’.

        Also, she’s a teacher. At a religious school that obviously doesn’t require that particular vaccine.

        What the ever loving fuck is wrong with people.

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          Well thankfully my coworker is as vaccinated as I am (she asks me every six months if she should get the new version and I say yes), and she’s not foolish about it at all. I guess it just feels like the inevitable if you haven’t had it 4-1/2 years into this.

          I cannot imagine the brain damage your granddaughter must have from five bouts of COVID. Wow. Disinformation is a terrible thing.

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            She’s not stupid, but prone to magical thinking. Which in our current environment of mass disinfo is just as damaging as being genuinely stupid sadly.