Poll: Have You Caught Covid? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by caeril » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 11:09 PM UTC

halfjoking wrote: post #86

thinkmcfly wrote: post #6

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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…

> So why are you blaming the unvaccinated?

Because the media did. Uncritically parroting what the media claims is a tried-and-true path to social acceptability.

Noting that the vaccines are non-sterilizing, and that their transmission attenuation was at best 15%, was a great way to get uninvited to the "right" kind of parties with the "right" kind of people.

Truth doesn't stand a chance against social conformity pressure, and it never has.

Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by koolba » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 11:11 PM UTC

pessimizer wrote: post #65

koolba wrote: post #28

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> I'm really not sure what to do – we don't want to keep getting it, but we really want some sense of social life back. Why bother doing anything different? Are you at specific risk or is this just general fear of some catastrophic outcome? Were you equally fearful of the common flu prior to covid? > My wife and I keep wondering / looking if there's anywhere in the world where people by and large take this infection…

> Considering the overwhelming evidence that it's not statistically an issue for the vast majority of otherwise healthy people Don't be an overdebunker. We have no long term knowledge because covid hasn't existed over the long term. Its love of eating brains and what seems like an ability to stick around in the nervous system indefinitely for some people like herpes or chicken pox are worrying. Especially for people…

> We have no long term knowledge because covid hasn't existed over the long term.

The flip side of that coin is we have no knowledge that it has catastrophic long term damage. And even it if does we have a critical mass of people infected to justify research to solve it.

> Its love of eating brains and what seems like an ability to stick around in the nervous system indefinitely for some people like herpes or chicken pox are worrying.

Sure but worrying to the point of living as a recluse for years to come? For an otherwise healthy person that’s frankly absurd.

Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by timbit42 » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 11:20 PM UTC

zcmack wrote: post #41

there is no poll option for "caught it and died" :\

Too controversial. People who had COVID but died in a car accident might choose that option.

Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by tamaharbor » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 11:21 PM UTC

I am unvaccinated and rarely wear a mask. I believe I caught the original strain very early on and had a fever for about four hours and loss of taste for about two weeks. There were no covid tests at that time. More recently I probably got what was the Omicron strain (conformed by a positive test) and was sick with cold-like symptoms for a week or so. Neither was any BFD.

Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by acjacobson » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 11:22 PM UTC

I've had it twice. I was double-vaccinated when I caught it the first time, and then later boosted and caught it a second time. Both times sucked and I was useless for about 15 days. The second time was worse.

Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by halfjoking » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 11:24 PM UTC

thinkmcfly wrote: post #87

halfjoking wrote: post #86

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>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

BCG vaccine isn't a covid vaccine, but it works better than any genetic shot IMO.

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/tb-drug-vs-covid

Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by whimsicalism » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 11:39 PM UTC

bloppe wrote: post #71

whimsicalism wrote: post #46

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Early in the pandemic, covid was much worse than the common flu.

Part of the reason covid was so confusing is that the outcomes are extremely variable. Even among the earliest infections, many people were completely asymptomatic. Also, some young, healthy people end up dying from it. It's hard for a lot of people to understand that kind of risk. I've tested possible on 2 occasions now, pre- and post-vax, and can confidently say I'm much more concerned about flu than covid (for me)…

Outcomes are extremely variable for most illnesses.

Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by antisthenes » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 11:44 PM UTC

I haven't had COVID or any other respiratory disease since early January 2020 (when COVID did not have any cases in my state).

Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by devilbunny » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 11:45 PM UTC

Baeocystin wrote: post #70

devilbunny wrote: post #55

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You can have your antibodies tested. If you had the vaccine, you will only have spike antibodies. If you had the disease, you will have other ones as well.

Good to know, thank you. Is this something a lab like Quest would offer, or do you have to ask your GP about it?

Quest does offer it, don't know if you'll need a doctor's order or not because that's not an issue for me - I can order it myself or have my wife (also a physician) order it. You want a nucleocapsid antibody test to find out if you've had the disease - the spike antibody test will tell you whether or not your vaccine "took".

Re: Poll: Have You Caught Covid?

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Post by thinkmcfly » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 11:55 PM UTC

theironhammer wrote: post #88

thinkmcfly wrote: post #6

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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.

Do you have a favorite vaccine?