10? Jesus Christ, man, save some for the rest of us.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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Maybe your antenna is broken? My nanobots are helping keep me healthyish despite all my attempts to not be.
Obviously not every every dose is poison. You're just lucky so far
I hear if you get the Covid booster and snort a Tylenol pm you’ll get a sick nose bleed
Join the Resistants!
Nothing gets me higher than a covid vax
Don't get high on Pfizer's supply.
I think I’m on my 6-7 covid shot. 😉
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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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.
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.
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?
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You must be a walking zombie at this point. RIP.
I'm rotting like a cabbage left in the sun but also I can scan myself at the grocery store and leave without paying.
If I've had COVID, I've been asymptomatic about it.I just don't seem to get it.
I was the same way until about a month ago. Now I have to say: Zero Stars. Do not want again.
You're a genetic super dodger.
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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.
We ran out of COVID shots here. Got the flu shot though.
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.
I myself only had a stuffy nose with it. God bless vaccines because a lot of people have suffered with it!
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.
You must get great cell phone service with all those 5G chips!
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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Excellent.
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.
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
That's just what the nanobots were programmed to make you think! Checkmate, people who believe in science!
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.
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.
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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