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I'm having trouble following your logic. Aren't the symptoms you're describing commonly associated with long COVID? As far as I'm aware, people that were vaccin

I'm having trouble following your logic. Aren't the symptoms you're describing commonly associated with long COVID? As far as I'm aware, people that were vaccinated that didn't get COVID don't have any of those symptoms.

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nullindividual 2y ago
You're correct. The OPs father has long-COVID. It is unrelated to any vaccine.
cooper_ganglia 2y ago
I’ll parrot what he’s heard from multiple doctors: Long COVID is exacerbated by the vaccine, since the primary issue was an overexposure to the spike protein. Getting COVID is bad enough, but for him specifically, getting the vaccine continued to overwhelm his body and made his symptoms worse and last longer. I think 95% of people can get the vaccine and be fine. But for the 5% of people who it harms, it just wasn’t worth it to push everyone to get the vaccine. In many ways, we would’ve been better off in the long-term just allowing COVID to run its course, imo.
- AstralStorm 2y ago
  Can you cite the source on this interesting assertion, since that hypothesis was I believe discredited, and a survival of a modified or partial virus is the more likely one that's being researched? In that it being similar to having shingles in a sense but of a different mechanism.
  - cooper_ganglia 2y ago
    The source was a few of the doctors that were helping him. I don’t know their sources, but he seems like he’s gotten better since working with them. At this point, I don’t really care if it’s long COVID or the vaccine or whatever, I’m not invested in any of the anti-vax stuff, I just want my dad back to his whole, healthy self, and seeing him struggle to walk around when, before Covid, he had more energy than me makes me feel frustrated and sad. I just want something that works! It’s certainly taught me to never take my health for granted.

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nullindividual 2y ago

You're correct. The OPs father has long-COVID. It is unrelated to any vaccine.

cooper_ganglia 2y ago

I’ll parrot what he’s heard from multiple doctors: Long COVID is exacerbated by the vaccine, since the primary issue was an overexposure to the spike protein. Getting COVID is bad enough, but for him specifically, getting the vaccine continued to overwhelm his body and made his symptoms worse and last longer. I think 95% of people can get the vaccine and be fine. But for the 5% of people who it harms, it just wasn’t worth it to push everyone to get the vaccine. In many ways, we would’ve been better off in the long-term just allowing COVID to run its course, imo.

AstralStorm 2y ago
Can you cite the source on this interesting assertion, since that hypothesis was I believe discredited, and a survival of a modified or partial virus is the more likely one that's being researched? In that it being similar to having shingles in a sense but of a different mechanism.
- cooper_ganglia 2y ago
  The source was a few of the doctors that were helping him. I don’t know their sources, but he seems like he’s gotten better since working with them. At this point, I don’t really care if it’s long COVID or the vaccine or whatever, I’m not invested in any of the anti-vax stuff, I just want my dad back to his whole, healthy self, and seeing him struggle to walk around when, before Covid, he had more energy than me makes me feel frustrated and sad. I just want something that works! It’s certainly taught me to never take my health for granted.