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Got my tenth COVID vaccine and my flu shot today. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to c/casualconversation@piefed.social

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Antivaxxers everywhere will be disappointed to know I'm still just fine, do not get 5G, have no nanobots or microchips, and am full of spicy memes to make fun of them with. Go get your shots.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 67 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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!

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] i_am_somebody@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey, I’m just some internet stranger, but I want you to know that i care for you and i wish you a fast recovery.

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[–] don@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Haven’t missed a single one. Got covid once, it felts like a weird cold that was mildly annoying, and over in about five days. There’s no telling how bad it might have been without the vaccine, so I always get my fluvid shots.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 11 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I never really got much reaction from any of the Covid shots, but with the last one I also got the shingles vaccine, and I'm pretty sure that one is what hit me hard for a few days. Beats getting shingles though, and if what I understand is true usually how your body reacts to a vaccine is just a mild version of what the real thing would be like.

[–] ProfessorPeregrine@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

Same. That is the only vaccine that laid me out.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

my wife had that experience with her shingles. I don't remember it being that bad honestly. Im wondering if it will really last forever or if at some point they realize it needs to be reupped in 10 or 20 years.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

got the razor blade variant last month, started feeling ill on sunday tested with a somewhat older test, strong positive, then start feeling pain in the throat which got worst, and the fever lasted 3 days, plus the sore throat intensified to throat pain and irritation, razor blade stage. then bizarrely started just hawking mucus and coughing up white phelgm every few minutes which turned yellow and slightly brown as the days went on, for days on end(no eating or drinking because swallowing was too painful, and swollen). the previous vaccine seems to be little effect on this variant.

i was looking at the back of my throat the whole time, there was a strange white film over it.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Jesus fuck I’d heard of this variant. I have no idea if whatever vaccine variant I just got would have helped, And though it seemed to have helped two years ago, the only real vaccine I use is being a recluse. I seriously doubt most people are taking covid seriously anymore, and that’s scary. Covid isn’t flu, and covid is still quite new. With having no way to speak of what the razor blade variant was like, I’m at least glad you don’t seem to have gotten Long Covid. I’m glad you’re well enough to have replied to me, and wish you very well, friend.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, my case was basically a stuffy nose and nothing more, because I frantically jam needles into myself anytime someone will give me one.

However, the first week of March 2020 before lockdown I had the very faintest whiff of a cold, like it would be something I'd ignore in normal times. Employee health kicked me out for four days. I wonder if I got a subclinical case of alpha COVID and that's given me more protection. The only person that I know who got alpha COVID before vaccines is the person who has never gotten it again.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 12 points 1 month ago

I hear if you get the Covid booster and snort a Tylenol pm you’ll get a sick nose bleed

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

Join the Resistants!

[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I think I’m on my 6-7 covid shot. 😉

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If I've had COVID, I've been asymptomatic about it.I just don't seem to get it.

[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

I was the same way until about a month ago. Now I have to say: Zero Stars. Do not want again.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

You're a genetic super dodger.

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[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you want 5g you have to go to the phone store right after the vaccination. It worked for me anyway.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can I still go within 12 hours?

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[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 7 points 1 month ago (6 children)

This latest round of covid + flu boosters really kicked my ass. Normally I can weather it with just a sore arm for a day. This one gave me body aches for two days, which hadn't happened since the first covid booster. So if anyone's had reactions before, definitely plan for a potential one this time.

[–] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Same here, I had both COVID vaccine and the flu shot on the same day this year. I ended up with a 102°F fever for ~24hr and had to skip work the next day. But unlike actually getting sick I felt 100% better the second day after getting them.

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[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hell ya! Not available till the end of the month here.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Am also Canadian but work in health care and employee health started them yesterday so I nipped up today.

[–] omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You must get great cell phone service with all those 5G chips!

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You'd think so, but remember that Bill Gates was behind it. All I get is the Windows startup sound from my arm, repeatedly.

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[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used to get both shots on the same day, but I've started spacing them out by a week. Might be a result of getting older, but the last time I got them together, I felt run down for about a day and a half.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It could also be the variant(s) that particular year. At least that's what I tell myself, as I, too, am getting older. The flu vaccine always makes me feel a little crappy for the rest of the day, but this year's COVID booster (Moderna) put me out of commission for 24 hours and hurt at the injection site for a few days.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Moderna gave me a massively swollen arm for a week three years ago. Don't know if it was the Covid variant or Moderna. I've only had Pfizer since then. I wonder what it will be this year, the German government defunded the institute that was developing the vaccine.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

I was about to get vaccinated but they cancelled the free 5G promo?

Boo. Lame. Nvm, then. What a scam. Gimme my free 5G!

[–] PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

10? Jesus Christ, man, save some for the rest of us.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You just got lucky the other 9 times.

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[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

That's just what the nanobots were programmed to make you think! Checkmate, people who believe in science!

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nothing gets me higher than a covid vax

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You must be a walking zombie at this point. RIP.

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

I got my flu and covid shots a few weeks ago. Again, no 5G or nanobots. My wife and kids tried to get their yesterday but apparently everything after 5 pm is by appointment.

[–] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Now that November is around the corner is the best time to book shots, too. You'll hit peak immunity before the winter holidays, when everyone and their dear ~~plague rats~~ children travel all over the world at the same time.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

holy crap. I bow to you. I have only the two initial and once per year so maybe 6 now. Honestly not sure at this point. Hoping to schedule flu this friday.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only vaccine that's ever bothered me in any way is the shingles vaccine but it just made me tired and achy for a week. Which is still 10 million times better than shingles. Even antivaxxers should get the shingles vaccine because shingles in your eye which blinds you really, really sucks.

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[–] just_ducky_in_NH@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Got mine last week!

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

i missed last year. i had 2 in 21, and every year after that but 2024. I still lhad covid last month(was vaxxed in may), the razor blade sore throat was insane. minimal sneezing but mucus was a little bloody for a while, coughing was primarily from the phelgm in the lungs, its not like cold and flu where the inflammation is causing the bronchitis itself.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I racked up 53 vaccinations to date. I died three times.

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[–] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

We ran out of COVID shots here. Got the flu shot though.

[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm scheduled for Friday. Sucks that I'm allergic to Comirnaty (Pfizer), so I'll probably have to spend a while at the clinic afterwards. Unfortunately that's the only vaccine that's available here. But an hour of discomfort still beats full-blown COVID, I've catched it once and have never been sicker in my life despite having had all my shots. I hate to think how that would have ended without the jab.

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Excellent.

[–] Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Obviously not every every dose is poison. You're just lucky so far

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