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Covid Vaccine

The vaccines work....


The Navy said in a statement that the ship’s crew is “100% immunized” and that all of those who tested positive for COVID-19 have been isolated on the ship away from other crew members. The number of crew testing positive was not disclosed. The ship has a crew of a little more than 100.
 
Pretty sad world we live in. Those not sick, but scared sick of Covid, are filling up ERs (primarily in heavily vaxed states), keeping the healthy from care they need.

I had to visit the ER last week for non-Covid-related issues. Talking to the nurse, he said he worked triage the day before. He alone handled 35 patients who showed up scared they had Covid. 2 did. Said they are overwhelmed.

The Chickens of the Collective Psychosis of COVID Hysteria Come Home to Roost​


News out of Vermont paints a bleak picture of just how harmful the collective psychosis of COVID hysteria is, a phenomenon that seems isolated to heavily Democrat areas.

For years, fear-mongering from the government and national media has pushed people to detach themselves from reality when it comes to assessing risk profiles regarding the coronavirus. That’s now playing out in the form of completely asymptomatic individuals rushing to jam up emergency rooms in Vermont. Though, as we’ll see, this is hardly limited to the Green Mountain State.



Some Vermonters who are able to find antigen tests and then test positive are clogging up emergency rooms.

The emergency department at the Rutland Regional Medical Center has been overwhelmed with asymptomatic folks.

Dr. Rick Hildebrant is RRMC’s medical director. He says some people who test positive with a rapid test go to the emergency room looking for a PCR test.

The Vermont Hospital Association says it’s hearing similar stories from other parts of the state…

…“It’s not so much the beds that are the precious resource, it’s the staff at this time. So we have to have some of our clinical staff providing care to those people and they can’t provide care to the folks in the ER,” Hildebrant explained.

This isn’t the overwhelming of hospitals we were promised by the left. Rather, it’s the exact opposite, with people who aren’t even sick showing up to take resources away because they’ve been convinced that COVID is still highly deadly for 45-year-olds in good health. Even older people who are asymptomatic should not be going to the ER. Rather, they should live their life. Unless they actually get sick, what is there to treat?

Yet, the cynical move by Democrats to cause so much fear around COVID has pushed a large segment of the population into what can only be called some form of mental illness. Get a load of these responses I chronicled a few days ago and tell me we don’t have a problem on our hands.



Meanwhile, in the blue bastion that is New York City, the police are having to be called in because people are mobbing COVID testing centers. Why they are doing so is anyone’s guess.



I’m going to make a generalized statement that may not be true in every single case but is certainly true in most cases: If you are healthy enough to go join a mob of people begging for free COVID tests, then you are healthy enough to not need a COVID test. The testing of asymptomatic and extremely mild cases of the coronavirus serves no legitimate purpose. And how many people who weren’t even infected are now infected for interacting with that crowd?

This stuff needs to stop, and it’s not going to stop until Democrats from the president on down start telling the truth about the risks of COVID for different demographics. Take another look at that picture in the Post’s article. Many of those people look to be under 50, and none of them appear to be suffering from a debilitating illness. Yet, they are acting as if someone is handing out solid gold bars. It’s insanity and completely unnecessary.

Lastly, given the apparent mildness of Omicron, which is quickly becoming the dominant variant in the United States, rushing to get tested while presenting no symptoms becomes an even dumber move. Yet, the White House is now going to send out tests direct to households anyway. What’s that going to do to emergency rooms, when a rush of “positive” tests starts happening and people freak out?

All of this was and is preventable, but it would require having people with actual leadership skills at the top instead of a bunch of cowards mostly concerned with covering their own backsides. Thus, the hysteria will continue. It’s too important to the left’s cause.
 

33 out of 34 hospitalized Omicron Patients in Delhi are FULLY VAXXED​

India is only 40% fully vaxxed​


Somehow, the most important question — does Omicron affect the vaccinated or the unvaccinated disparately, has a cool answer in this Indian Express Article.

So, 97% of hospitalized Omicron patients in that hospital are fully vaccinated, whereas India is only 40% fully vaccinated. Two patients even had a “booster dose”. Any questions?

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Denmark: No-vax is PROTECTIVE; Vax INVITES Omicron​

Hospitalization rate same or higher than Delta​



Something is rotten in the Danish kingdom.

And what is rotten is the situation with “Covid Vax” and Omicron.

The bad news so far:

  • According to the latest Denmark reports, being UNvaccinated makes one much LESS likely to get Omicron, than being vaccinated. (!) The “no-vax” is protective, and “vax” invites disease. In fact, the “un-vaccine protection” of being unvaxxed is about 50%! What an amazing treatment no-vax is now.
  • Hospitalization rate from Omicron is slightly higher than hospitalization rate for Delta, adjusting for time lag between positive test and hospitalization.
  • Delta is not even starting to slow down in Denmark, judged by absolute number of cases
  • Greater affinity of Omikron to the vaccinated, going beyond just no protection compared to the unvaxxed, raises concern that vaccination causes ADE (Antibody dependent enhancement)
  • Denmark’s report suspiciously is missing vaccination status of the hospitalized

Vaccine becoming a joke in Denmark​

Look at the latest Omikronvarianten report from Dec 18.

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Several things here are obvious:
  • Only 8.5% of Omicron cases are among the “wholly UN-vaccinated”.
  • Most Omicron cases occur in 15-60 year olds
  • Vaccination Rate among 15-60 year olds is approximately 80%
  • There is about 2% of single-dose not fully vaxxed
  • So, the “un-vaccination rate”, meaning percentage of completely pure blood un-vaxxed, is about 17%
  • Therefore, since unvaccinated people comprise 17% of the age sample, but are only 8.5% of cases, they are approximately "50% protected due to not being vaccinated”. Sounds strange, right? We’ll talk about how it works, later.

ADE - Antibody Dependent Enhancement​

The greater affinity of Omicron towards the vaccinated, and the fact that no-vaccination is actually PROTECTIVE, shows that vaccination is not merely useless: vaxx is actively harmful as far as getting a case of Omicron goes. If the vaccine was simply perfectly useless — like a placebo saline solution — this would NOT be the case, and vaccinated, and unvaccinated, would all be infected at the same rate. This is NOT happening here: the vaxxed are infected at a MUCH HIGHER rate, and no-vax gives 50% “protection”.

What is going on? I can think of three explanations.
  • The unvaccinated include more Covid-recovered who are immune to Covid. This is very uncertain as to the extent of this, as many recovered persons were bamboozled into getting a vaccine also.
  • The vaccine antibodies are actually aiding and abetting Omicron in penetrating mucosal barrier and overcoming immune defenses. This is called “ADE” and was much discussed on substack, in my previous post as well as many others. Click on the links in the above article.
  • The vaccine generally destroys immunity, and Omicron evades vaccine antibodies, making Omicron as infectious as without the vaccine, but without the working immune system to oppose it.
  • Please comment on this and provide your own ideas?
 
If this is even partially true...just damn.

New studies show that the COVID vaccines damage your immune system, likely permanently​

The vaccines are making it more likely you'll be infected with Omicron 90 days after you are fully vaccinated. To keep vaccine effectiveness high against omicron, vaccination every 30 days is needed.​


Worried about Omicron? Guess what? After 90 days, the vaccine they gave you is going to make you MORE likely to get infected from Omicron, not less. The longer you stay on the vaccine treadmill, the harder to get off in the future and the easier you’ll make it for the virus.

In short, we’ve been lied to about the vaccine. It is protecting you less and less over time. While you may get a benefit for earlier benefits, the benefit for other variants (and likely other diseases) is going to be negative. In short, you are getting a short term benefit against Delta, but at the expense of a degradation of your overall immunity to everything else.

In short, these vaccines may help you win the war against a variant that may soon be rate, but the price you pay is that you make your immunity to everything else worse. It’s a dumb tradeoff (especially since early treatments work so well). But the people making the laws won’t believe any of the science referenced in this article, so it will continue.

Alix Mayer alerted me to this game changing tweet about a study in Denmark which instantly went viral as you can see from the number of retweets:



I want to tell you what this really means and how it is being attacked.

Summary: Refuse to comply with mandates. Now.​

This paper means we will need to inject people every 30 days if we want to “protect” them. Based on the harm that the vaccines do to our immune system, it’s likely that the needed interval will shorten with each booster.

If people don’t get boosted as required, they will be MORE vulnerable to Delta and Omicron than if they weren’t vaccinated. That’s what NEGATIVE vaccine efficacy means. It doesn’t mean the protection wears off (like we were told). It means the OPPOSITE of what you were told: it means the vaccines helps the virus to infect you (by suppressing your immune system, probably permanently each time we are injected according to Dr. Ryan Cole). It means we were lied to.

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In short, the vaccine is like a heroin addiction: once you’ve had a taste of it, you are hooked: you have to continue it for life if you want protection. If you stop it, you’re a sitting duck for the virus.

What’s worse is our government is mandating this now. In light of this paper, they will change the vaccine mandates to force you to get vaccinated every month or you will be fired from your job. Their next move could well be to make it illegal not to be vaccinated. This seems like where things are headed based on what is happening in other countries where they are quickly stripping away your rights to do anything without a vaccination.

And we have no clue what monthly (and later weekly) vaccination will do to your body. This has never been tested.

My advice is simple. If you have been vaccinated, you need to stop now. Do not get the booster. My friend Dr. Robert Malone is fond of repeating the old adage, “When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”

Sadly, most people cannot afford to lose their jobs, so they will get vaccinated and medical professionals will not speak out since doing so will cause them to lose their license.

What the paper said in detail​

First, the link in the tweet is to the outdated version of the paper. The current version can be found here.

Start at the comments, both from social media and also from medrxiv readers.

Check out the social media portion of the comments

Here are some comments (on old and new version of the paper):
  • So assume the results you like (high VE for recent vaccination) are causal, but hand wave confounders at results you don't like (negative VE for distant vaccination)? Science?
  • This is a superb paper, especially the careful approach to CNV calling and the Bayesian methods used throughout.
  • Looking at the graphs, I see both vaccines lose all effectiveness at 90 days, but worse, actually drop into strong negative effectiveness after that time.
    This would mean that these vaccines *increase* one's chances of infection after the initial 90 days "honeymoon" period.
    Am I getting this right?
    If so, why are governments pushing third doses as Omicron is becoming dominant?
The key material is in the full PDF:

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The graphs above tell the story. Negative VE means the vaccine is helping the virus, not you.

So at 60 days, the protection is close to zero, so if you want to maintain protection, getting vaccinated every 30 days is required.

This isn’t a vaccine at all. This is basically stimulating your immune system so it is already “geared up” to fight the virus. That’s not what a vaccine is supposed to do.

Furthermore, the negative VE after 90 days means you are hooked for life and I would guess (based on the mechanism of action), that we will need shorter and shorter dosing intervals for every booster you get (since it kills off your immune system every time).

So it could very well be monthly boosters after the 2nd dose, weekly boosters after the 3rd dose, and perhaps daily boosters after the 4th dose to maintain your “immunity.”

You can’t stop after that because if you stop, you’re in worse shape than if you never started.
 
Wow. This is interesting. Woman confronts CVS pharmacist, asks for the documentation/safety inserts that come with all vaccines. After struggling, he finds the paper, and proceeds to open it. The inserts are BLANK. Nothing written on them.

Watch the pharmacist stumble when the woman asks him some rational questions. Informed consent? Ummmmm...yeah.

Watch the 2nd video for the meat.

 
So, I got hit again with another illness. On Thursday, started coughing pretty good. Woke up Saturday with a low grade fever around 100. Fever broke pretty quickly, Saturday afternoon. Still coughing and snotting around today.

Tried to get in for another COVID-19 test, none available. No home tests available at any of the local drugstores/retailers. So I don't know what the hell I have, but that's twice in a month.

Not sure what's going on. Usually I get this **** once a year. Very rarely get sick. Since I got fully vaccinated in February, I have had some form of respiratory illness 4 or 5 times since.

Have an appointment with my doctor on Wednesday for my regular 6 month Check up. Since they'll be drawing blood, I am going to request a blood test to see if I have covid antibodies of any kind.

Tired of getting sick every other month. Curious as to what is going on.
 
It's already been proven the 6 feet of social distancing was bullshit. It was a hope/prayer approach. Studies have shown Covid can remain airborne for a long, long time. 6 feet does nothing. Except keep people 'in line'

Hence why I'd tell them to kiss my *** with that crap..lol
 
Pretty sad world we live in. Those not sick, but scared sick of Covid, are filling up ERs (primarily in heavily vaxed states), keeping the healthy from care they need.

I had to visit the ER last week for non-Covid-related issues. Talking to the nurse, he said he worked triage the day before. He alone handled 35 patients who showed up scared they had Covid. 2 did. Said they are overwhelmed.

The Chickens of the Collective Psychosis of COVID Hysteria Come Home to Roost​


News out of Vermont paints a bleak picture of just how harmful the collective psychosis of COVID hysteria is, a phenomenon that seems isolated to heavily Democrat areas.

For years, fear-mongering from the government and national media has pushed people to detach themselves from reality when it comes to assessing risk profiles regarding the coronavirus. That’s now playing out in the form of completely asymptomatic individuals rushing to jam up emergency rooms in Vermont. Though, as we’ll see, this is hardly limited to the Green Mountain State.





This isn’t the overwhelming of hospitals we were promised by the left. Rather, it’s the exact opposite, with people who aren’t even sick showing up to take resources away because they’ve been convinced that COVID is still highly deadly for 45-year-olds in good health. Even older people who are asymptomatic should not be going to the ER. Rather, they should live their life. Unless they actually get sick, what is there to treat?

Yet, the cynical move by Democrats to cause so much fear around COVID has pushed a large segment of the population into what can only be called some form of mental illness. Get a load of these responses I chronicled a few days ago and tell me we don’t have a problem on our hands.



Meanwhile, in the blue bastion that is New York City, the police are having to be called in because people are mobbing COVID testing centers. Why they are doing so is anyone’s guess.



I’m going to make a generalized statement that may not be true in every single case but is certainly true in most cases: If you are healthy enough to go join a mob of people begging for free COVID tests, then you are healthy enough to not need a COVID test. The testing of asymptomatic and extremely mild cases of the coronavirus serves no legitimate purpose. And how many people who weren’t even infected are now infected for interacting with that crowd?

This stuff needs to stop, and it’s not going to stop until Democrats from the president on down start telling the truth about the risks of COVID for different demographics. Take another look at that picture in the Post’s article. Many of those people look to be under 50, and none of them appear to be suffering from a debilitating illness. Yet, they are acting as if someone is handing out solid gold bars. It’s insanity and completely unnecessary.

Lastly, given the apparent mildness of Omicron, which is quickly becoming the dominant variant in the United States, rushing to get tested while presenting no symptoms becomes an even dumber move. Yet, the White House is now going to send out tests direct to households anyway. What’s that going to do to emergency rooms, when a rush of “positive” tests starts happening and people freak out?

All of this was and is preventable, but it would require having people with actual leadership skills at the top instead of a bunch of cowards mostly concerned with covering their own backsides. Thus, the hysteria will continue. It’s too important to the left’s cause.

because yet again this administration, the trump administration, the obama administration, and the bush administration all ignored the advice that when a pandemic hits, the government should contract and have a bunch of testing labs opened and staffed for the specific virus. Hospitals shouldnt be the focal point for the more extensive testing... its a waste of resources
 
Vaccines - the leading cause of Coincidence

NY Times Editor, 49, Dies One Day After Moderna Booster Shot.​


Carlos Tejada, a New York Times Deputy Asia Editor, has died at the age of 49. He suffered a heart attack less than a day after posting to social media that he had received a Moderna booster vaccination.

Tejada, who worked in part on the paper’s COVID-19 coverage, was married with two children. He had worked at the Wall Street Journal prior to moving to the Times, where he worked for almost five years.

According to Tejada’s own Instagram page, he was grateful to receive the mRNA/LNP booster while in Seoul, South Korea. Tejada originally received the Johnson & Johnson DNA/AAV COVID-19 vaccination in July 2021. Less than a day after receiving his Moderna booster on December 17th, Tejada died of a heart attack. The news was shared via Tejada’s social media by his wife Nora the following morning. The Times confirmed his death on December 22nd.
 

3 COVID-19 vaccine shots won’t stop omicron variant, BioNTech leader says​

Will three vaccine shots be enough to stop the omicron variant?

By Herb Scribner@HerbScribner Dec 26, 2021, 8:00am MST


The COVID-19 vaccine shots won’t be enough to combat the omicron variant, according to Ugur Sahin, the CEO of vaccine developer BioNTech.
  • “We must be aware that even triple-vaccinated are likely to transmit the disease,” he told French daily Le Monde.
  • “It is obvious we are far from 95 percent effectiveness that we obtained against the initial virus,” he added.
Sahin said vaccine efficacy has been dropping against omicron, which is a sign that the vaccines aren’t enough, according to Euro News.
  • “There will be a loss of effectiveness against Omicron over time, it’s very likely, but it’s still to be measured how quickly. I will not base predictions on preliminary laboratory data but on real-life data, which is much more appropriate,” Sahin said.
That’s why consistent testing is important for monitoring the spread of the virus, he said.

Indeed, a recent study from researchers at Columbia University suggested that the omicron variant of COVID-19 is “markedly resistant” to the COVID-19 vaccines, antibody treatments and COVID-19 vaccine booster shots, as I wrote for the Deseret News.
  • Experts have been advising unvaccinated people to get vaccinated against COVID-19, and for fully vaccinated people to get their vaccine booster shots.
Early data suggest that the omicron variant causes less severe COVID-19 symptoms and hospitalizations, though, per the Deseret News. But this is all based on early data and it may take time to assess the severity of the coronavirus variant.
 
This is pretty damning. Don't gloss over the links to the studies inside and the study methodologies.

Yet another independent study confirms over 150K Americans killed by the COVID vaccines​

I had 8 independent ways to show this before. And now there are 9. And nobody has a defensible number < 150,000. The CDC still claims no deaths, yet cannot explain how Schirmacher and others goofed.​


A new independent study using analysis of excess deaths showed that our estimate of the number of excess deaths was consistent with what they found.

Here are some quotes from the paper:
  1. Results from fitted regression slopes (p<0.05 FDR corrected) suggest a US national average VFR of 0.04% and higher VFR with age (VFR=0.004% in ages 0-17 increasing to 0.06% in ages >75 years), and 146K to 187K vaccine-associated US deaths between February and August, 2021.
  2. Comparing our estimate with the CDC-reported VFR (0.002%) suggests VAERS deaths are underreported by a factor of 20, consistent with known VAERS under-ascertainment bias
  3. Comparing our age-stratified VFRs with published age-stratified coronavirus infection fatality rates (IFR) suggests the risks of COVID vaccines and boosters outweigh the benefits in children, young adults and older adults with low occupational risk or previous coronavirus exposure.
  4. Interestingly, our estimates of 133K to 187K vaccine-related deaths are very similar to recent, independent estimates based off of US VAERS data through August 28th, 2021 by Rose and Crawford (11).
In other words, these researchers found numbers similar to what we found, within a factor of 2. They agree that over 150,000 people have been killed by the vaccines so far. This is more than 3 times the number killed in combat in the Vietnam war; a war which lasted for nearly 20 years.

Meanwhile, critics like my good “friend” Jeffrey Morris admit they haven’t got a clue as to how many people have died and can’t figure out even a single way to estimate it. Stunning. He still thinks there is no proof of causality.

Here’s a 10th method that finds > 200,000 deaths from the vaccine​

Courtesy of SidDavis on substack:

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(1) Using weekly CDC reports of Deaths from All Causes during the 6 years from January, 2014 to January, 2020, I identified and measured oscillations in that data set to establish the normal weekly pattern and magnitude of deaths we should expect in 2020, 2021 and beyond.

(2) i compared CDC weekly reports of Deaths from All Causes, January 18, 2020 through December 14, 2020. December 14, 2020 was when vaccinations began. The total of deaths in excess of the expected norm was 369,857 or a weekly average of 7,705.366.

(3) I compared CDC weekly reports of Deaths from All Causes, December 14, 2020 through November 13, 2021. The November 13, 2921 report was the most recent with materially correct data. The total of deaths in excess of the expected norm during this period was 487,905 or a weekly average of 10,039.680.

(4) The average increase in excess deaths after vaccines began was 2,334.314 per week or 112,047 deaths in total which can be attributed to the vaccines. Based on these calculations, a reasonable estimate through the end of 2021 is 200,000 deaths.

The estimate of deaths attributed to the vaccines calculated with this logic is if anything low. The medical profession has improved their treatment methods so that should have caused a decrease in deaths as time passed, but the rate instead increased. The most vulnerable should be the first to so as time passed the death rate should have decreased, but the rate instead increased. This means that the vaccine caused deaths would have been slightly higher than my calculated estimate.

Proof of causality​

There are so many ways to show the vaccines cause death.
  1. COVID-19 vaccine: Strong association with cardiovascular death, especially hemorrhagic stroke and venous thrombosis shows the mortality odds ratio (MOR) >2 and is highly statistically significant for a variety of adverse events. That can’t happen by chance.
  2. On COVID vaccines: why they cannot work, and irrefutable evidence of their causative role in deaths after vaccination
  3. The autopsy work of Dr. Peter Schirmacher in Germany
  4. Jessica Rose’s analysis of the VAERS data showing dose dependency (the graphs are supposed to look the same on Dose 1 and Dose 2 if the vaccines don’t kill people)
  5. The other 8 other analyses listed in this paper

Still no stopping condition; nobody in Congress or at the CDC will set one​

However, there is no stopping condition for these vaccines and no member of Congress or the CDC is willing to draw a line in the sand and say, “The US government should halt the vaccines after X number of Americans have been killed.”

A reasonable stopping condition is 32 people. In 1976 we stopped the H1N1 vaccine after just 32 deaths.

Today, the number of deaths allowed is unlimited. And there is no liability for the manufacturers. And there have been no payouts at all to the hundreds of thousands of vaccine injured. Zero. Zip. Nada.

Nobody in Congress (or the mainstream media) seems troubled by the fact that the vaccines kill more people than they save. The Pfizer Phase 3 trial saved 1 life from COVID for every 22,000 people vaccinated. So for 220M fully vaccinated, it’s 10,000 lives saved, but150,000 or more people killed. So we kill 15 people to save 1. And we mandate it to boot.

Maybe someday, we’ll find one member of Congress who will actually pay attention to what the data says and say two words, “I object.”
 
Big news. Bring it to the USA.


Except.....

However, I seriously doubt the FDA will approve it for use in the US since it would take away market share from the other manufacturers​

The FDA doesn’t approve things based on science or safety anymore. Those days are gone.

If this vaccine were approved in the US, everyone in the US would want it and avoid the other three existing vaccines like the plague. Their market share would drop to zero. So it isn’t going to be available here. The FDA will make up a reason it isn’t safe. So it will not be accepted in the US (e.g., for satisfying the unethical vaccine mandates) even if it works just as well as the other vaccines. Mandates are not about safety; they are about forcing compliance with what the government wants you to do.

The good news is that other parts of the world will have a safer alternative which is better than what they have now. So in that sense, this is “good news.”
 
So, I got hit again with another illness. On Thursday, started coughing pretty good. Woke up Saturday with a low grade fever around 100. Fever broke pretty quickly, Saturday afternoon. Still coughing and snotting around today.

Tried to get in for another COVID-19 test, none available. No home tests available at any of the local drugstores/retailers. So I don't know what the hell I have, but that's twice in a month.

Not sure what's going on. Usually I get this **** once a year. Very rarely get sick. Since I got fully vaccinated in February, I have had some form of respiratory illness 4 or 5 times since.

Have an appointment with my doctor on Wednesday for my regular 6 month Check up. Since they'll be drawing blood, I am going to request a blood test to see if I have covid antibodies of any kind.

Tired of getting sick every other month. Curious as to what is going on.
Not vaccinated here.
Last week I walked around with a low grade fever, clogged ears and lost taste and smell for just 2 days. I recovered quickly. I thought for sure the chinese got me man. I was already sending out my obituary through christmas cards
 
Two words: natural immunity. The human race likely wouldn't be here without it. And that nasty ***** in that video who punched and spit on that man on the airplane was arrested for assault when they landed I hope.

She's yelling at him for not masking up while she doesn't have her own mask up and spits on him. Huge spray of water droplets on another person's face. Brilliant, just brilliant.
 
I'm not vaxed. I recovered from COVID about 2 months ago...still got about 2-4 months of antibody power left, according to what I've read.

Don't really know what the **** to do, get vaxed or not to get vaxed.
 
I'm not vaxed. I recovered from COVID about 2 months ago...still got about 2-4 months of antibody power left, according to what I've read.

Don't really know what the **** to do, get vaxed or not to get vaxed.
Let natural immunity run its course. It’s kinda freaky losing taste and smell but I wound up fine. I’m sure a lot of us have mild cases
 
So, I got hit again with another illness. On Thursday, started coughing pretty good. Woke up Saturday with a low grade fever around 100. Fever broke pretty quickly, Saturday afternoon. Still coughing and snotting around today.

Tried to get in for another COVID-19 test, none available. No home tests available at any of the local drugstores/retailers. So I don't know what the hell I have, but that's twice in a month.

Not sure what's going on. Usually I get this **** once a year. Very rarely get sick. Since I got fully vaccinated in February, I have had some form of respiratory illness 4 or 5 times since.

Have an appointment with my doctor on Wednesday for my regular 6 month Check up. Since they'll be drawing blood, I am going to request a blood test to see if I have covid antibodies of any kind.

Tired of getting sick every other month. Curious as to what is going on.

Yeah, doesn't sound right Sarge. And you don't strike me as having changed your health habits in one year that would cause you to get all these respiratory issues all of a sudden. I've heard Zinc, vitamin D and C, a good probiotic and NAC are about the best preventative measures until you actually get it and then should be taking a good therapeutic if you have serious symptoms.

My 70-year old dad takes them every day religiously and hasn't had so much as a sniffle.
 
Don't really know what the **** to do, get vaxed or not to get vaxed.

If they actually roll out Novavax here in the U.S., I don't think I'd be against it (traditional vaccine method) - just all of these infections in people who've been fully vaxxed has me leery.

And if you've recently had Covid, your natural immunity lasts a lot longer than 2-4 months.
 
If they actually roll out Novavax here in the U.S., I don't think I'd be against it (traditional vaccine method) - just all of these infections in people who've been fully vaxxed has me leery.

And if you've recently had Covid, your natural immunity lasts a lot longer than 2-4 months.

Somewhere I read that it was 6 months max.
But I like the 5yr number much better!.... according to this site:

  • For people who recover from COVID-19, immunity to the coronavirus can last about 3 months to 5 years, research shows.
 
Don't know anything about healthline, but saying 3 months to 5 years is a ridiculous timetable.
 
Somewhere I read that it was 6 months max.
But I like the 5yr number much better!.... according to this site:

  • For people who recover from COVID-19, immunity to the coronavirus can last about 3 months to 5 years, research shows.
they have no clue... they try to test antibody levels and guestimate. They started saying a month then it was three then six... when I got out of the hospital they said eight months, but I had nurses who were operating on natural immunity that had gotten the illness early in the pandemic and were well over a year... the studies that ran or are still running found 11-12 months but they only ran for 11-12 months... other viruses similar to cv19, like SARS, had immunity tests that showed up to 17 years of protection...

moreover serious illness after reinfection is virtually unheard of after symptomatic infection. Its very possible that the majority of the reinfections they see are related to false positives for one or both positive tests... the CDC data showed a less than .012% chance of severe infection after having it once... your body knows how to fight it off and it will
 
Yeah, doesn't sound right Sarge. And you don't strike me as having changed your health habits in one year that would cause you to get all these respiratory issues all of a sudden. I've heard Zinc, vitamin D and C, a good probiotic and NAC are about the best preventative measures until you actually get it and then should be taking a good therapeutic if you have serious symptoms.

My 70-year old dad takes them every day religiously and hasn't had so much as a sniffle.
Sarge could be what they call a covid long hauler. I don’t think he should worry too much. Still best to get checked out though. Keep us posted Sarge my best wished and prayers sent your way
 
Hope you get better soon, Sarge.
 
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