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It's tough to get people to want a vaccine which knocks you off your feet for 3 days and needs to be repeated every 6-12 months. I'm very bullish on mRNA vaccin
by lumost 1y ago
It's tough to get people to want a vaccine which knocks you off your feet for 3 days and needs to be repeated every 6-12 months. I'm very bullish on mRNA vaccine technology - but it's potentially a poor fit for rapidly changing viruses.
- mattmaroon 1y agoIf you mean covid, most people aren’t knocked off their feet at all. If you mean cancer, that’s a dream compared to chemo.
- kerabatsos 1y agoIs this a serious comment? Covid killed over a million people in the United States alone.
- mattmaroon 1y agoReread it until you understand that we were talking about the vaccine not the disease
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- paganel 1y agoThat was the initial shock, we're all better now, with or without the vaccine.
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- DanHulton 1y agoThat sucks if that's your experience, but it's not the universal, or even the common, experience. For reference, I get a sore-ish shoulder the next day, and that's it. Also for reference, when I got Actual Covid, I was knocked on my ass for almost two weeks. So for me, at least, the choice is easy.
- lumost 1y agoIt's my unfortunate experience, when I've had covid its a 6-12 hour affair that happens once every 12-24 months. My 3rd vaccine shot had me in bed for 3 days. Leading to continued vaccination being unsustainable. My wife has a similar experience to yours, and gets moderate to severe covid. She gets the vaccine every year to help avoid it - but still gets moderate COVID roughly once per 6 months. It's unfortunate that the vaccine has such radically different outcomes within a single household, if it was a flu shot like experience I'd happily get it once per year.
- toast0 1y ago> it was a flu shot like experience Flu shot experience varies too. The last several have been very low response, but the first few were a miserable couple days and I stopped getting them because certain misery was worse than a chance of misery that I'd never know if it was flu or not, because testing was inaccessible.
- soco 1y agoLast year I skipped the flu vac (I had a zillion for tropical diseases so I though come one not another one) and lo, I got a flu about every 4 weeks, so like over 6 the whole season. I'm on a way to get it this year.
- xjlin0 1y agoat least the vaccine greatly reduce the severe conditions such as death.
- rsingel 1y agoCOVID is a nasty virus. I need my brain way to much to FAFO. COVID-19 may Enduringly Impact Cognitive Performance and Brain Haemodynamics in Undergraduate Students - ScienceDirect https://share.google/49ER4VjJUwipGotZO https://share.google/49ER4VjJUwipGotZO
- rpdillon 1y agoWait, you're saying that when you got COVID, it lasted six hours?
- dmschulman 1y agoPeople have varying immune responses to getting vaccines, but feeling crummy after getting a flu shot has nothing to do with whether the vaccine used mRNA technology or not. I would say people who end up bedridden for 3 days are in the minority for most vaccines immune responses, but people also need to make peace with the idea that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- gdulli 1y agoIt has affected me for at most 16 hours. I have never heard 3 days, though I'm sure there are some rare outliers. And, not being at high risk, I don't "need" it more than once a year. This kind of exaggeration is one of the things that doesn't help public opinion. Especially when there are people actively looking for ways to subvert it.
- rpdillon 1y agoReactions vary. I got a COVID shot on Friday. I had to massage my arm a little bit Saturday, but nothing more incovenient than that.