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Yes, It’s Still Really Worth Avoiding COVID—Even If You’ve Already Had It a Few Times (www.self.com)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I still mask everywhere and will have my ninth vaccine next month. I've been lucky to only have one mild case that was basically a stuffy nose. I feel very fortunate, and I take it really seriously.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The only 2 things I've had that were worse than the last time I had COVID:

Pneumonia when I was 15, so sick I had to be carried to the washroom.
Whooping cough earlier this year, coughing so much I couldn't sleep, couldn't walk more than 3 or 4 meters in a go

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ugh whooping cough is awful. I've never had it. I wonder if I should get a booster.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you have easy access to a booster... fuckin do it!
I was sick as a dog for 3 weeks, started being symptomatic late Feb, was well enough to work again by mid March....had a persistent cough until early June, and due to health monitoring at work my lung capacity and strength has been verified as having gone down about 5%. It's almost October and I still have a bit of a cough, not all the time like right after the worst of it, but if it's cold, or humid, or I've been lying down for a few hours(say around 2am)....

Anyway, definitely get a booster if you can.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'll ask my GP. I do not fool around with getting vaccines as needed, that's for sure. I just don't know what the policy is.

Would I be a bad person if I fibbed to public health to get an Mpox vaccine by telling them I have multiple sex partners? I don't but I would like one because it's spread by touch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Would I be a bad person if I fibbed to public health

Idk fam, that's a call you need to take for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well I can't say I'm not tempted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd weigh up your risk factors. Could get it by just telling the truth if you're in a risk group.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's mostly that I work in health care and it spreads by touch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I mean.... that seems like a pretty big risk factor, not just for you but the wider web of people who could be infected if you were....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I had the real influenza which was a bit worse, but I wasn't vaccinated 3 times against that. Covid gave me over 6 months of loss of smell, that was terrible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nine?? Hectic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I don't fool around with vaccines. I'm serious about them.