*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’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.
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)
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.
Me. The minute I can. I have enough health issues as it is.
