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This is a really annoying and unnecessary article. It is based on some personal anecdote of someone who was fully vaccinated and got symptomatic Covid for 1 1/2
by 13415 5y ago
This is a really annoying and unnecessary article. It is based on some personal anecdote of someone who was fully vaccinated and got symptomatic Covid for 1 1/2 days that felt bad. Judging from the description in the article, it lasted shorter and was overall better than a common cold - not the flu, just a common cold we all have had before. Doctors also confirmed that it was a mild case. Yet the author goes on to paint some kind of bleak picture. I can't really see why. The case described illustrates how vaccines worked as intended. Yes, vaccinated people should probably wear masks in closed confined spaces. But if so, not because of personal risks involved in getting infected as a vaccinated person but rather to limit infections of non-vaccinated with the Delta variant. The same is true for social distancing (with moderation) and washing hands.
AFAIK, the risk of dying or getting serious complication for fully vaccinated people is currently very low. Maybe future mutations change that but it doesn't look like it. If you insist on worrying about something, then worry about enough volunteers for vaccinations, enough vaccines for poorer countries, or getting refresher vaccinations once they are due.
- allturtles 5y ago> it lasted shorter and was overall better than a common cold The illness was described as causing total debility for 36 hours, like food poisoning. That is much worse than a common cold, IMO, which generally doesn't stop me from doing any activity and is just a nuisance.
- 13415 5y agoMaybe you're personally blessed with a super-strong immune system but what you're describing is not the usual common cold. A common cold takes around 9 days, and most people have to spend and are recommended to spend 3 of those in bed. Most common colds can develop into deadly pneumonia if you take them too lightly. A colleague of my girlfriend nearly died of one in 2018 because he ignored it and went out partying...
- allturtles 5y agoI don't know what to say except to appeal to my own experience. I've never heard of anyone I know being confined to bed by a common cold, nor getting pneumonia from one. 9 days maybe of lingering cough and sniffles, the worst of it is typically over in 3 days or so. > colleague of my girlfriend nearly died of one in 2018 because he ignored it and went out partying... Which suggests a mild illness? (The cold, not the pneumonia). You literally can't go out partying when you are really ill.
- 13415 5y agoRegarding the article: https://i.redd.it/q5i0qrwu3ld71.png https://i.redd.it/q5i0qrwu3ld71.png About what you said: > 9 days maybe of lingering cough and sniffles, the worst of it is typically over in 3 days or so. The mild Covid experience described in the article was 36 hours - your own words. So it was literally like a light cold, as the physicians also confirmed according to the article. You're lucky that you've never had to stay in bed with a common cold.
- allturtles 5y agoYes, my own words, but the worst of a cold and the worst of food poisoning (what OP compared the mild covid to) are, IMO totally different. The former is an inconvenience (headache, a bit tired, constantly runny nose), the latter is a totally debilitating state of never-ending vomiting and/or diarrhea. If you told me I was about to get a cold I would shrug, if you told me I was about to get food poisoning I would be dreading it. There's no way we're going to come to a resolution of this discussion without additional data given our evidently very different experiences of what a cold is. All I can find is sources saying that colds are usually mild. But since this also called "mild covid", that resolves nothing.