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Both times I've had a Covid vaccination I've been bed-ridden for three days, with high fever, weakness, chills. This was after having Covid four months earlier
by kbelder 5y ago
Both times I've had a Covid vaccination I've been bed-ridden for three days, with high fever, weakness, chills. This was after having Covid four months earlier.
I'm not getting a booster. I think at this point the effect will be worse than Covid itself. I'm not going to make myself that sick on a yearly basis, indefinitely ongoing. At a certain point the damage it does to me is worse than the damage it prevents.
Just to emphasize: I'm pro-vax. But the furor over the boosters seems frantic and irrational.
- mft_ 5y agoAnecdata, but I had no side effects from 2x Pfizer, then ~24h flu/hangover symptoms from a Moderna booster. Friends’ experiences equally unpredictable. So… you may get no symptoms at all from a booster - and may be worth switching the manufacturer? Bigger picture, while it’s totally your choice, I’d dispute your logic RE: not accepting a booster. COVID is mostly somewhere between minimal and a week or two of unpleasant symptoms in most cases, but more rarely can obviously cause major symptoms including death, and also ‘long COVID’. This is what you’re hedging against with a vaccine. As unpleasant as 24-72hrs of feeling crappy is, I’d take it over months of ‘long COVID’, and obviously over anything worse.
- nojokes 5y agoStats, stats, stats. Hospitalizations among people who got booster are incredibly low but meaningful difference appears from age of 50.