I don’t think Jonas posts in the cave much; he just really dislikes certain posters
Covid still frolicking around
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I think they hold a ..........very different stance on Covid than I do but IDK, I never really interact with that one. Can tell at 50yds when it's not worth it.
yeah it was one of those things where I'm curious but not curious enough to find the time to get poked more
I had Covid last February and to be safe I followed the CDC isolation protocols. however i did go running multiple times with no issues. The next month I got pneumonia from a ski trip at that as a lot worse for me. walking and talking exhausted me.
I'm getting older every year, so this past month I decided to get the RSV, COVID, and the extra strength flu vaccines.
While I felt some very minor side effects from the RSV and flu vax's, the COVID vax knocked me on my butt for a couple days. I'd do the same all over again, though, because I don't want to end up in the hospital whenever I do get COVID.
While I felt some very minor side effects from the RSV and flu vax's, the COVID vax knocked me on my butt for a couple days. I'd do the same all over again, though, because I don't want to end up in the hospital whenever I do get COVID.
To my knowledge I’ve never had the flu, but I got COVID for the first time 3-ish weeks ago and that’s just about the worst I’ve felt being sick, maybe outside of an awful bout of food poisoning. Chills and fever were really bad, and a few days into it just walking around would require me to rest a while afterwards.
I could feel myself getting sick on Sunday and still went on a run, so I feel you there.
Although, I'm positive that I couldn't run yesterday or today. And I normally run 5 days a week, so this is incredibly annoying.
I didn't have the shingles shot, but coming from experience I doubt it was worse than actually getting shingles.
Not true. I had chicken pox and got shingles a few years ago. Mine was on my back. Painful, irritating for over a week. So lucky I didn't have it on my face like others often do.
Yeah I can see if someone brought the political pieces to it (although I'm not a fan of that reaction to start) but I'm not sure where 'this or that happened' fits the bill for that kind of response.
hope it passes quickly. Your body is at least learning how to fight it off.
I thought what Jeremy was saying (and what I thought was true), was that you can only get shingles if you have had chicken pox before. So if you have never had chicken pox or you got the vaccine, you would not get shingles.
I'm sorry to hear about the issues of others.
The tricky thing with pandemics - there is no linear progression. It can turn deadly again at any moment and migation measurements help prevent this possibility.
Long Covid is a huge, underreported concern and is manifesting in many ways, including premature death from other issues or the increase in autoimmune disease in children. Everyone is at risk, regardless or whether there were initial symptoms or not. A simple stroll through medical papers across the world bears this out.
After the 1918 flu pandemic, many decades later there was still a clear delineating line with some who had it and demonstrated adverse symptoms including early death.
Vaccines (of any kind) can rarely have side effects, some serious, but the science is clear that the risk is far outweighed by potential complications from the actual disease. Same holds true for Covid. Research shows that humans are actually terrible at risk assessment. Mathematically speaking, I know which magic box I'm going to open every time.
I think the fast deployment of the Covid vaccines was really amazing. The mRNA technology had already been around for decades and there's other stuff like CRISPR. I'm always dismayed when some turn their backs on progress for the common good. If we can make things better for others, why not do it?
The tricky thing with pandemics - there is no linear progression. It can turn deadly again at any moment and migation measurements help prevent this possibility.
Long Covid is a huge, underreported concern and is manifesting in many ways, including premature death from other issues or the increase in autoimmune disease in children. Everyone is at risk, regardless or whether there were initial symptoms or not. A simple stroll through medical papers across the world bears this out.
After the 1918 flu pandemic, many decades later there was still a clear delineating line with some who had it and demonstrated adverse symptoms including early death.
Vaccines (of any kind) can rarely have side effects, some serious, but the science is clear that the risk is far outweighed by potential complications from the actual disease. Same holds true for Covid. Research shows that humans are actually terrible at risk assessment. Mathematically speaking, I know which magic box I'm going to open every time.
I think the fast deployment of the Covid vaccines was really amazing. The mRNA technology had already been around for decades and there's other stuff like CRISPR. I'm always dismayed when some turn their backs on progress for the common good. If we can make things better for others, why not do it?
Adult Chicken Pox much more severe than that as a child. And you can easily contract it. Plus you can catch chicken pox from a person who has shingles. But not the other way around.
Glad I’ve had them. Glad I’m vaccinated. Protection.
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