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The covid vaccines make me seriously sick for at least a day or two.

• mgkimsal 5y ago
  If you didn't get sick from it (current formulation or perhaps new ones in future), would you just take it and move on? Known downtime of a day or two (and not feeling well) is, to me, still a tradeoff to make compared to the potential of being intubated in an ICU. Each Pfizer shot I've had I've had somewhere of 8-18 hours of being really knocked out, usually starting around 24 hours after injection. I usually have milder (but some) reaction to flu vaccine each year (usually up to 8 hours of fatigue/headache/etc) within a day or so. Risks/reward still moves to me take the shots.
  • denimnerd42 5y ago
    if I didn't get sick or there was a new one that's better of course I would take it. I think t-cells are still robust long term so I'm safe from severe disease. That's what I've read so far in the news but I'll keep monitoring.
  • School-Cotton 5y ago
    > compared to the potential of being intubated in an ICU. Comments like this are only intelligible if one considers the probability of each outcome. Deterministically (probability 1) getting unpleasant vaccine side effects vs. deterministically ending up intubated in an ICU? Sure, give me a booster every month. But that's not actually the relevant calculus -- your probability of ending up in an ICU is already extremely low after two shots.