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Avoided Covid until about three weeks ago. Kid brought it home from preschool. 4x Moderna. Symptoms were sore throat, persistent cough, mild fever and sweats.

by ctime 3y ago

Avoided Covid until about three weeks ago. Kid brought it home from preschool. 4x Moderna. Symptoms were sore throat, persistent cough, mild fever and sweats. No loss of taste or smell. Edit: not sure why this was downvoted, I’m not complaining at all about my vaccine assisted recovery. I’m also immune compromised (in the last 6 months) and fairly happy with how well things worked out. I didn’t really even need to take time off and went to (remote) meetings. Covid was nothing compared to some bad drug interactions I had a few months prior. I thought not losing any sense of smell or taste was most interesting and it was likely due to some combination of the specific variant, the Moderna vaccines and paxlovid that prevented that class of symptoms.

bequanna 3y ago
The current variants seem to be much less severe. Depending on age and health, it really makes it difficult to say if getting vaxxed was the “smart” move when weighing the risk of contraction vs the unknowns of any potential side effects.
- deleted 3y ago
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- lockhouse 3y ago
  Unless you had several co-morbidities, even the original variants of COVID weren't all that severe for most people. Per the CDC: > 146.6 Million Estimated Total Infections > 7.5 Million Estimated Hospitalizations > 921,000 Estimated Total Deaths https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd... If memory serves, most of the panic in the early stages was really about the risk of overloading hospitals (which mostly didn't happen) and a lack of ventilators (which it turned out that ventilators made things worse for most COVID patients). COVID-19 itself wasn't extremely lethal at any point.
  - DiogenesKynikos 3y ago
    > COVID-19 itself wasn't extremely lethal at any point. On a population level, it's the most lethal virus in the last 100 years. A virus that infects everyone and that kills 0.5-1% of those it infects is almost a worst-case scenario for public health.
    - babyshake 3y ago
      Not trying to troll, but why wouldn't a virus that infects everyone and kills 5-10% or more be the worst-case scenario?
      - HWR_14 3y ago
        The idea is a 5-10% fatal virus would have far more severe social distancing and thus couldn't infect everyone. Otherwise, a "100% fatal, infects everyone" disease would be the worst case scenario.
        ryandrake 3y ago
        I wish I believed you, but sadly I think we learned nothing from COVID and if version 2.0 happens and is 5-10% fatal, we would make the same mistakes all over again: ignore it, downplay it, politicize it, and then finally half-ass the fight with the same weak uncoordinated actions.
        seanmcdirmid 3y ago
        The problem with COVID was that 70% of the deaths were in the 65+ range. So it didn't feel as severe to society as it would going by the death rate alone. We lost 3 years of life expectancy (it’s not clear if it will be recovered quickly or not), most people don’t think ahead that far so the problem feels abstract.
- hammock 3y ago
  Emerging science supported by multiple studies suggests 4x boosters may have actually hurt more than they helped: https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/repeated-covid-19-vaccination-weakens-immune-system-study_5305770.html https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/repeated-covid-19-vacci...
  - terminatornet 3y ago
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    - lockhouse 3y ago
      https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart Looks just right of center to me.
      - terminatornet 3y ago
        this chart says msnbc and the new york times is far left of center, not sure how much value i'd put in it
        lockhouse 3y ago
        It’s the New York Times opinion columns that it calls far left (which I’d call accurate), while it considers the news articles to be just left of center.
        vkou 3y ago
        The NYT is far left if you define the center to be somewhere to the right of Mitt Romney.
        lockhouse 3y ago
        I think it’s a fair assessment that NY Times opinion articles have a far left bias and their news articles have a left of center bias. I think it’s a fairly accurate chart in my experience overall.
jesusofnazarath 3y ago
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throwaway202351 3y ago
fully recovered now, I'm assuming?

by ctime 3y ago

bequanna 3y ago

The current variants seem to be much less severe. Depending on age and health, it really makes it difficult to say if getting vaxxed was the “smart” move when weighing the risk of contraction vs the unknowns of any potential side effects.

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lockhouse 3y ago
Unless you had several co-morbidities, even the original variants of COVID weren't all that severe for most people. Per the CDC: > 146.6 Million Estimated Total Infections > 7.5 Million Estimated Hospitalizations > 921,000 Estimated Total Deaths https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd... If memory serves, most of the panic in the early stages was really about the risk of overloading hospitals (which mostly didn't happen) and a lack of ventilators (which it turned out that ventilators made things worse for most COVID patients). COVID-19 itself wasn't extremely lethal at any point.
- DiogenesKynikos 3y ago
  > COVID-19 itself wasn't extremely lethal at any point. On a population level, it's the most lethal virus in the last 100 years. A virus that infects everyone and that kills 0.5-1% of those it infects is almost a worst-case scenario for public health.
  - babyshake 3y ago
    Not trying to troll, but why wouldn't a virus that infects everyone and kills 5-10% or more be the worst-case scenario?
    - HWR_14 3y ago
      The idea is a 5-10% fatal virus would have far more severe social distancing and thus couldn't infect everyone. Otherwise, a "100% fatal, infects everyone" disease would be the worst case scenario.
      - ryandrake 3y ago
        I wish I believed you, but sadly I think we learned nothing from COVID and if version 2.0 happens and is 5-10% fatal, we would make the same mistakes all over again: ignore it, downplay it, politicize it, and then finally half-ass the fight with the same weak uncoordinated actions.
        seanmcdirmid 3y ago
        The problem with COVID was that 70% of the deaths were in the 65+ range. So it didn't feel as severe to society as it would going by the death rate alone. We lost 3 years of life expectancy (it’s not clear if it will be recovered quickly or not), most people don’t think ahead that far so the problem feels abstract.
hammock 3y ago
Emerging science supported by multiple studies suggests 4x boosters may have actually hurt more than they helped: https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/repeated-covid-19-vaccination-weakens-immune-system-study_5305770.html https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/repeated-covid-19-vacci...
- terminatornet 3y ago
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  - lockhouse 3y ago
    https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart Looks just right of center to me.
    - terminatornet 3y ago
      this chart says msnbc and the new york times is far left of center, not sure how much value i'd put in it
      - lockhouse 3y ago
        It’s the New York Times opinion columns that it calls far left (which I’d call accurate), while it considers the news articles to be just left of center.
      - vkou 3y ago
        The NYT is far left if you define the center to be somewhere to the right of Mitt Romney.
        lockhouse 3y ago
        I think it’s a fair assessment that NY Times opinion articles have a far left bias and their news articles have a left of center bias. I think it’s a fairly accurate chart in my experience overall.

jesusofnazarath 3y ago

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throwaway202351 3y ago

fully recovered now, I'm assuming?