10? Jesus Christ, man, save some for the rest of us.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Maybe your antenna is broken? My nanobots are helping keep me healthyish despite all my attempts to not be.
Join the Resistants!
I hear if you get the Covid booster and snort a Tylenol pm you’ll get a sick nose bleed
If you want 5g you have to go to the phone store right after the vaccination. It worked for me anyway.
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.
I think I’m on my 6-7 covid shot. 😉
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?
Oh, possibly; since I was going to get one no matter what, I didn't really even look into it.
I racked up 53 vaccinations to date. I died three times.
RIP.
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.
We ran out of COVID shots here. Got the flu shot though.
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.
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.
10... Jeez Louise. I finished at 4. Work mandates the flu shot. I'm not anti vax.
I feel 4 has given me adequate coverage and I'm not convinced the flu shot does it's job well enough.
It won't have given you adequate coverage. Covid changes constantly. Even having the current Covid variant doesn't cover you 100 percent against getting the same variant again. And if you become immune, immunity against the current variant only lasts up to 9 months. Meanwhile, you will likely have ended up with some brain damage, perhaps a touch of myocarditis, microvascular problems, blood clots... and you'll probably catch the next variant too.
Get vaccinated.
I got the 3 shots required for some international travel plans, but haven't got any since then. I have had covid a few times but I was either completely asymptomatic, or had what felt like a common cold. So it just hasn't been high up on my priorities.
Totally get it for at-risk individuals. But I'm a young person in relatively good health, I'll take my chances at building the natural immunity from infection.
Could you please for me read this at least? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11296004/
Natural immunity is not really a thing with COVID, it fades very quickly, and it's meaningless if you're on a ventilator.
You are incorrect about natural immunity and COVID, studies have shown that the immunity is roughly equivalent. They both fade within a 60-90 day period. Source 1, Source 2. In fact the first source I linked to found that hybrid immunity through both vaccination and recovering from infection naturally provided the most robust protection against future infection.
I personally am not interested in getting new booster shot every 60-90 days. I'll take my odds. Hospitalization rates in healthy adults are incredibly low. The current hospitalization rate is 1.2 people in every 100,000. That's like 0.000012%. I'll take those odds.
Got mine last week!
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