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Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by thinkmcfly »

_dain_ wrote: post #59
thinkmcfly wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zero times here (: I make all of my own meals and always wear a mask out. I interact with old people so there's no room for me to act like a child about health anymore. I can't really fault the people who are vaxxed and choose not to mask up anymore. So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease.

>So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease. I'm not the one making you wear a mask, you are. it's your choice to make yourself miserable and stupid looking. I can't believe there are still people like this, three years on. just get over it .. you're like those japanese soldiers who didn't know the war was over.

Which war?

Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by rob74 »

thinkmcfly wrote: post #6
anarchogeek wrote: post #5

There are people who've only caught covid once? Everybody I know's had it multiple times.

Zero times here (: I make all of my own meals and always wear a mask out. I interact with old people so there's no room for me to act like a child about health anymore. I can't really fault the people who are vaxxed and choose not to mask up anymore. So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease.

Well, I was careful too trying to protect my elderly parents (86/87) - and then (in November 2021) I got it from my father! No idea where he managed to get it from, as he doesn't go out much, except when I drive hime somewhere - probably from a delivery guy (although I told him to wear a mask when going to the door - he was living on his own at the time). Needless to say I was worried sick, but, being vaccinated, he got through just fine. The way he tells it, he barely had any symptoms except for a sore throat (which was the reason why I insisted on testing him). My wife and I then both got it, were sick for ~ 5 days, nothing really bad, just losing your sense of smell is a bit scary...

Of course, this is all just anecdotal evidence, but it supports the point that vaccinated old people are generally not that much at risk anymore. What's bothering me most at the moment is that everyone's pretending things are back to normal, but to visit my mother in the nursing home I have to get an appointment, get tested, wear a mask the whole time, and, especially during wintertime, they will still regularly be in Covid quarantine for weeks.

Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by StanislavPetrov »

I got one dose of the J&J back in 2020 and to my knowledge never had Covid (never had symptoms, never been tested). Never wore a mask, regularly hang out in packed bars, and spent a week sitting next to my cousin who had Covid while on vacation. Just lucky? Some sort of natural immunity? Or an asymptomatic case? Hard to say.

Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by jimnotgym »

I got it first in May 20. I got over it in about 6 weeks and started getting my life together, and then my health plummeted. I was exhausted all of the time, I started getting palpitations, developed sleep apnoea and more. I caught it again in December 21 post vaccine and it was much more mild. I'm starting to get things back together now

It killed a healthy colleague of mine in Feb 20...

Edit: my wife was a 10k runner, and it has destroyed her running ability. She still can only run about a mile. She is getting heart rhythm issues to...bit worse than the flu I would say

Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by halfjoking »

thinkmcfly wrote: post #6
anarchogeek wrote: post #5

There are people who've only caught covid once? Everybody I know's had it multiple times.

Zero times here (: I make all of my own meals and always wear a mask out. I interact with old people so there's no room for me to act like a child about health anymore. I can't really fault the people who are vaxxed and choose not to mask up anymore. So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease.

>So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease.

I'm one of those people.

I didn't want the vaccine after having long covid, because I believed natural immunity was much better than training my immune system on an earlier version of the virus. I was right.[1] Not only that - but unvaccinated were shown to have the same viral load even if they did get infected.[2]

So why are you blaming the unvaccinated? Right now there are more excess deaths than any time during the pandemic.[3] Even people who were provaxx are questioning why it's happening now.[4] If the vaxx was so great less people should be dying or was that not the point?

[1] https://brownstone.org/articles/how-the-cdc-buries-the-truth... [2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3... [3] https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/159384008954467942... [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGZJfVR9-wo

Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by thinkmcfly »

halfjoking wrote: post #86
thinkmcfly wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zero times here (: I make all of my own meals and always wear a mask out. I interact with old people so there's no room for me to act like a child about health anymore. I can't really fault the people who are vaxxed and choose not to mask up anymore. So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease.

>So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease. I'm one of those people. I didn't want the vaccine after having long covid, because I believed natural immunity was much better than training my immune system on an earlier version of the virus. I was right.[1] Not only that - but unvaccinated were shown to have the same viral load even if they did get infected.[2] So why are yo…

Do you have a favorite vaccine? If you had to get 1

Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by theironhammer »

thinkmcfly wrote: post #6
anarchogeek wrote: post #5

There are people who've only caught covid once? Everybody I know's had it multiple times.

Zero times here (: I make all of my own meals and always wear a mask out. I interact with old people so there's no room for me to act like a child about health anymore. I can't really fault the people who are vaxxed and choose not to mask up anymore. So many people are refusing vaccinations that we will never see the end of this disease.

The mRNA vaccines do not prevent you from getting COVID or spreading it. All they do is prevent you from getting really sick and maybe dying. That's it.

Pfizer didn't even test if their vaccine prevents the spread of COVID because that's not what it was designed to do.

The politicians lied that if u got vaccine it would help prevent the spread of COVID. It does not.

Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by scruple »

I had it. It was nasty. Fatigue, mental fog, and phantomsia (cigarette smoke in my case, lucky me...) persisted for months after. I also had abnormal heart rhythms and an increased frequency of ocular migraines (1-2 per year is "normal" for me, I had 4 in the 2 months immediately after getting over COVID and have had 2 since).

Going into it, I was in extremely good physical condition. Coming out of it, it took me about 4 months of training to get back to baseline.

I'm only now (~10 months later) back to where I was, in terms of my aerobic and anaerobic conditioning, speed, endurance, etc. FWIW, my strength didn't take much of a hit.

Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by theironhammer »

HDThoreaun wrote: post #60
conductr wrote: post #22

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I find people taking this strategy interesting, especially as we approach the 3 year mark. Do you plan on doing this forever? Is there something you expect to change that would lower your/the risk thus allowing you to live a more normal social life? ("Normal" for lack of better word) For context, I've been back in the office for more than a year at this point (haven't worn a mask in a year either). I'm pretty sure pe…

I would like to see a lot more masking in general. In asian societies it has long been normal to see people masked up in public, not sure why we can't have that in the west other than a culture of extreme individualism. Why can't people who come to work sick just wear a mask? I kind of enjoy wearing the mask though so a bit biased. Just feels pretty rude to knowingly expose other people when you are/might be sick.

An N95 mask or better protects maybe. The other common masks are useless against Omicron.

Maybe a respirator type mask?

COVID is here with us just like the common cold/flu. It's never going away.

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