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I always took COVID seriously and got vaccines as soon as I could. I made it all the way through COVID without getting COVID once.
Then I was diagnosed with cancer in 2023 after making it through a fucking pandemic ha.
I don't talk about my vaccine status in relation to my cancer in public super often because I don't want to deal with idiots who will blame my cancer on my COVID vaccines. Which I just know some people are itching to be like "SEE WE TOLD YOU" despite the kind of cancer I have being fairly common long before COVID or the vaccines for it were around.
Anyway, I continue to take my vaccine regiment pretty seriously since I'm immunocompromised now and all.
I appreciate you and everyone else who takes it seriously, too, because it helps me know that other people take it seriously for the sake of people like myself, whose immune systems need the help of herd immunity to really make it through.
So, thanks and cheers!
Even pre COVID I was the vaccine Nazi. I told my ex to go get a flu shot in 2001 or thereabouts and he started telling me stupid conspiracy shit about mercury and eggs and whatall, and I gave him my biggest vampire smile and told him to quit his shit and go get one because I don't live with plague rats. I would not call him antivax, he has dutifully gotten many of them, but the ignorant thoughts in his head are ignorant. (To be fair we didn't have home Internet in those days and he didn't have a GP to review with either so it was easier to be ignorant). I will always do what I can to protect you, it's SO important. Blessing to you.