We ran out of COVID shots here. Got the flu shot though.
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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.
I racked up 53 vaccinations to date. I died three times.
I'm scheduled for Friday. Sucks that I'm allergic to Comirnaty (Pfizer), so I'll probably have to spent 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.
Excellent.
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.
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.
Moderna does that because it is a higher dose. Body aches, headaches means a robust immune response.
The last two times I've felt nothing and the common denominator was getting Pfizer instead of Moderna. Is it possible your pharmacy was out of what you usually get and had to use the other COVID vaccine, which your body may react to differently?
much better than getting the current covid which causes severe sorethroat, to the point the pain and swelling prevents swallowing+ constant upwelling of white sputum and coughing at the same time. i had that variant, and i was just vaccinated 2 months prior.
Huh, this is the first time out hasn't kicked me in the ass and I got them both in the same arm
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
i heard shingles vaccine for 50+ almost always "knocks" people out. they have the shingrx which is the new vaccine that doesnt use the virus, you got that one?
I had shingles and it was quite unpleasant, had it at 20. shingles experience varies widely from person to person, although it seems the older you have it, the more severe it is. Also if it affects the face or head, or groin area it is considered severe., or it cause meningitis, or paralysis. i had permanent scarring and nerve damage on a "half-dollar coin" size rash, not as crazy looking as others. but i had noticed around the time the blisters appeared, my spine was very stiff along with back pain and that lasted a whole week which i think the shingles affected the spine too, thats about the time shingles blisters bursted on its own. plus the dreaded phn that people get, i had a mild version for a few years. i was not on any antivirals at the time, so i went through the whole thing.
it was induced by severe stress, which also triggered an autoimmune disease of the hair/follicles few months prior.
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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.
If you want 5g you have to go to the phone store right after the vaccination. It worked for me anyway.
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Is covid still around? No one gets the vaccine anymore and covid cases have dropped to pretty much nothing. Anywhere I can find some stats on it? HealthNZ reports 170 cases in the past week which is almost nothing in a pop of 5m nonvaccinated people.
It sure is. The unvaccinated kids in our local ICU have it rough.
I hear if you get the Covid booster and snort a Tylenol pm you’ll get a sick nose bleed
If I've had COVID, I've been asymptomatic about it.I just don't seem to get it.
Same, it's just pure luck i'm able to avoid it thus far.
You're a genetic super dodger.
I was the same way until about a month ago. Now I have to say: Zero Stars. Do not want again.
Got mine last week!
Join the Resistants!
I think I’m on my 6-7 covid shot. 😉
Why would you get the vaccine if not for the 5G?
You just got lucky the other 9 times.
Can't talk now, the spike proteins are making me watch Letterkenny.
Hell ya! Not available till the end of the month here.
Am also Canadian but work in health care and employee health started them yesterday so I nipped up today.
I was about to get vaccinated but they cancelled the free 5G promo?
Boo. Lame. Nvm, then. What a scam. Gimme my free 5G!
/j
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