*Raises hand.
I sure as fuck am.
I would if I hadn’t had COVID too recently to qualify. Was miserable. Do not recommend.
Got Covid for the first time last October and ran a 103 degree fever for days and struggled to feel completely normal for almost two weeks. I was already planning to keep getting the shots prior to catching it but definitely keeping up with them now. I hope to never catch that one again.
For what it’s worth, the first time anecdotally seems to be worse a lot of the time.
The vaccines produce very specific antibodies which do help, but when you get a real infection your body is able to make all sorts of other antibodies as it’s not only based off the very specific vaccine output.
So the 2nd time you get it, you now got the various vaccine antibodies / knowledge, and the more smorgasbord of antibodies and knowledge from the actual virus.
Not to say it still can’t be bad, but there’s a little hope that it might not be as bad.
I certainly hope that’s true if I do catch it again!
Also heads up the vaccines are typically more symptomatic after you’ve had the full on disease. So don’t be shocked if you feel like shit for a day or two after your next shot. Still better than the real disease though.
I guess I got lucky. Got Covid for the first time (as far as I know) last month. Was basically just a bit tired for four days with sniffles. Maybe I’ll wait until December to get this shot before the holidays begin.
If you just had it, you get some immunity for awhile. Then get the vax as soon as allowed. That will help you ride out the later end of the winter surge, while others’ immunity is waning.
What have you been hearing for how long after getting Covid?
Ah, it’s been about a month and a half for me so I’ll probably get it soon then since I have some trips coming up.
Yeah, abso-fucking-lutely. I’ll take two, pleaseandthankyou.
I’ve had all the shots and have not had Covid.
Covid has a cardiac component which puts me at elevated risk, if course I’ll get this shot too. ASAP!
There’s a fair bit of masking or luck involved in that at this point. The current crop of COVID vaccines don’t prevent disease for more than a few months.
I just avoid most people. But with two young kids, yes, we are lucky. Not a single case of covid in our household.
Probably doesn’t hurt that we are all vaccinated, remind our kids to wash every time they come inside from playing, do most play with others outside (playground, bike ridesz etc), and I work from home about 95% of the time.
Masking is incredibly easy, and not a problem at all to anyone who’s not a snowflake, or afraid of what others think.
I still do so 99% of the time I’m indoors in public, and I’m usually the only one. I used to have an issue when cloth masks were still a thing because inhaling would pull it against my face and trigger claustrophobic reactions. But ever since the pre-formed duckbill N95s became widely available it’s a non-issue. I even use them for mowing the lawn to stave off allergies. If a fat old man can breathe just fine doing yard work in an N95, the snowflakes bitching about paper surgical masks restricting their oxygen are full of shit.
I’m ungodly fucking pissed that I took all the shots/precautions and I got it twice :(
For what it’s worth, you most likely had much more mild symptoms for a much shorter duration because you were vaccinated! But I still apologize, getting sick sucks.
The vaccine doesn’t stop you from getting COVID, never has.
Pretty much. If you’re lucky, you won’t have any symptoms though, which is the next best thing!
I assure you it was still dreadful, I found a playlist of every episode of the Kirby TV show and watched it over the course of a few days while phasing in and out of reality. It was pretty uncomfortable when I was conscious
Kirby makes everything more bearable tbh
I got it about five or six months after getting the first round of boosters after traveling for work. I was fucking exhausted for four or five days and couldn’t start awake for more than a few hours. Still planning on getting this round because it would be nuts not to.
Anyone who’s good at risk assessment.
Me, along with the flu shot so it’s just one visit.
I did that a couple of years ago and got sicker than I got when I actually had COVID. I staggered them by two weeks last year and felt fine. I’m going to do that from now on.
It didn’t affect me when i did it. Got both, one in each arm. My covid arm was a bit sore and tight around the injection site, and the flu arm was fine. I didn’t feel any adverse effects.
My colleague did the same but felt rough as arseholes for a week or so.
It varied across the office, but i would say that only maybe 30% of us felt anything close to being sick at all. The estates department next door were all off for days after it.
So it’s different for everyone.
(For context, i work in a hospital, and they go around offering these vaccines every year)
I seperate by a full month or more.
Thankfully I’ve never really had any major reaction to flue shots aside from a sore arm for a couple of days, but I know people who get knocked flat for a day or two afterward and they still get them because they know the actual illness is much, much worse and affects more than just them.
Oh yeah, I’d much rather be laid out by a flu shot than the actual flu. And I’m sure it was worse than when I actually had COVID because I had the vaccine in the first place.
Me. The minute I can. I have enough health issues as it is.
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I just get them every year like my flu shot.
We really ought to be doing twice a year with the current vaccines; you can if you’re over 65.
There’s this bizarre fixation on trying to force Covid response to fit into the flu pattern. Sure, we may end up there eventually, but the two waves a year pattern is here now.
A lot of people consider themselves lucky to see a medical professional once a year, so it’d be convenient to be able to get all the requisite vaccines on that schedule.
That would be great if the Covid vaccinations remained effective for a year. But they don’t. Both Covid and flu shots are effective for about 4-6 months. We get away with doing flu once a year because there’s a pretty solid “flu season” through the winter. Covid has settled into winter and summer waves, but the summer just gets ignored because reasons.
Really you can if you pick a different pharmacy to get it at. Then again not sure if you’re in a state that has mandated record keeping. Then I guess you can’t but in GA I just go to CVS for my first one and the Kroger for my mid year one.
I got covid before I was allowed to get the first vaccines and I’m still pissed about that since I drove by the closest vaccination spot every day for work and it was almost always empty. I lived in a very red area so it was very much a case of “doors are open but nobody’s lining up” but I was still not part of o e of the groups they allowed to get one yet.
So yeah, I will be continuing to keep up on it, because that was the worst 2 months of my adult life, and I am absolutely certain I got some of the cognitive side effects of covid.
What a weird question to ask, NYT
What a weird question to ask, NYT
It’s an article about the stats of vaccination rates, and a lot of structural explanations for why those rates have dropped (mostly loss of funding for covering the uninsured or paying for getting the vaccines to nursing homes or the disabled). It’s an important discussion.
If we can’t have universal healthcare I would at least like the goverment to cover all vaccines folks are eligible for. The cost to benefit ratio should just make it a no brainer.
You can still get it after the vaccine as well.
The vaccines help a lot, but don’t think you can’t ever catch it. Gotta remain somewhat cautious still.
I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten it since getting the vaccine and boosters, but it was super mild in comparison.
Basically I figured it was a cold until I stopped smelling things again for a couple days, but in under a week I was fine. No test to confirm.
If I’m going to be in close proximity to people I still wear a mask, but my day-to-day allows me to avoid people for the most part.
Who will get them? I’d say the answer is anyone who doesn’t feel the need to be sick as fuck for two weeks.
Also anyone with any health issues who lives anywhere with the anti-vaccine MAGA idiots probably should too, since if you don’t take care of yourself they sure as fuck won’t lift a finger either.
Haven’t been sick in 25 years, also haven’t got any shots like your role model Trump.
People? I’m gonna guess people. Yes, that’s my final answer. People.
Probably not my Trump-loving conspiracy theorist coworker who mentioned this to me and said “It’s scary”. Not to be confused with the other Trump-loving conspiracy theorist coworker who believes that there wasn’t a pandemic but several people that he knows got COVID multiple times each.
I would have questions, but I already know the answers would give me an apoplectic aneurysm. So I’m just going to let mysteries be mysteries.
If you or someone you know are having trouble making reasonable decisions right now, take my advice… Get it. This variant is FUCKING miserable. The peak lasts longer than previous and then just fucking lingers and lingers into a persistent dry cough that lasts (for 5 weeks at this point).
Get vaccinated for yourself and the people around you
I tried to get a booster a couple months ago because last autumn’s shots had waned. I was turned away by pharmacists, even though my insurance would cover it. They claimed they were reserved for people in certain high risk groups (maybe due to a shortage, although I’m not aware of a demand peak in summertime, and I hadn’t seen any shortage mentioned in the news).
Whatever the underlying reasons might be, the result was that I tried repeatedly to get a booster, and was denied.
I mentioned this on lemmy (in this community, I think) and a couple of jerks appeared, one suggesting that I was anti-vax (how??) and another accusing me of spreading misinformation (what misinformation??) A mod then removed my comment, citing misinformation.
In any case, both experiences were really discouraging. I hope other people who actually want to be vaccinated don’t run in to the same problems.
I think this is pretty common. It’s been hard to get more than one per year in the US unless you’re over 65.
I haven’t had any problems, the only limitation is that you have to wait 4 months since the last one. No age limits (US east coast)
Even the current strains are fucking miserable and if I can even get a decent chance at avoiding it I’ll stand in line.
I am. Up to 8 at this point.
