covid-19 experiences

[Guest RebeliousBrat]

I'm a health care worker and in April 2020 I ended up with covid-19. Today Walgreens came in with the vaccines. If you know anything about medicine like I do anything that is 8 years old I would consider safe but this is not 8 years old it is kind of an emergency to have this vaccine but the side effects are a big concern of mine. how do your guys feel About this?

My job once to give me the vaccine but I don't want it because I just don't feel safe taking it.

[DeepBlueIII]

I'm in group 1B and I am waiting patiently for my turn.  It looks like the new mRNA techniques are holding up.

[PapaGrayWolf]

I'm nit sure how the antibody procedure will affect how or when or even if regarding the vaccine but so far the odds are heavily in favor of it being good.

[Guest RebeliousBrat]

I am glad to hear other survivors and fighters out there. I'm conflicted. if I choose to decline, it will be a good 3 months before I can get it. it will be available to the public. I Find it interesting that the vaccine has strains of the flu included.

[PapaGrayWolf]

I'm not a medical expert but I think most vaccines have strains of what they are trying to prevent.

[MJA78]

I am pretty sure I had covid last december. Its still up in the air wether if you really need the vaccine or not after having covid already.

[LittlePupRune]

I work in healthcare and all of my friends and coworkers that have been eligible are getting the vaccine, thankfully none have had any adverse side effects and because it is such an emergency I am inclined to trust it. Especially with the UK strain becoming more and more common. It doesn't hurt to be cautious but with a pandemic like this I doubt there's time for 8 years.

[LittleTeacup]

If you've already had covid then what's the point of the vaccine? Aren't you already immune?

 

I'm in the lowest risk group. Young, healthy, not around others much. I don't think the vaccine would be available for me for a while. But still I'm cautious. I'm not writing it off entirely, but I'm uncomfortable with the speed it was developed and approved. I know some of the speed was because other projects were dropped to focus intensely on the development, but also I just don't trust pharmaceutical companies to thoroughly evaluate for adverse effects. Companies like Pfizer just aren't very trustworthy in general, and the FDA regularly approves medicines that have to be recalled a few years afterwards for horrible unexpected side effects. And something most people don't know is that in 1987 the US barred suing any vaccine manufacturer, even if they botched production or other reasons any other company could be sued for. It was to stop the flood of legal threats at the time because many manufacturers were about to stop producing vaccines entirely and cause a shortage. But with lessened consequences if they screw up, why be so careful? I'm not against vaccines altogether, but I advise caution and balancing the pros with the potential cons (for example, being one of the people who experience severe allergic reactions).

 

I am watching for how it works out for the people taking it now, and then when it becomes available for the general public, I will make a decision. I do think more vulnerable people should be protected first so won't be rushing to get one, but if all seems well I may get one in the end.

[Guest Potassium]

I won't be eligible for the vaccine for a very long time.

I suspect that by the time I do receive, the millions of people around the world who will have it first will prove an excellent control group for documenting any common or serious side effects.

That being said if I was offered it right now I would accept as I want to be able to see my damned family without being worried that in doing so I might cause their deaths.

What does concern me though is if they are documenting new strains and the inherent issue of viruses tending to mutate rapidly and make vaccines time sensitive like the flu or impossible like HIV that whatever they do produce won't be effective.

[Guest RebeliousBrat]

there is still a lot we don't know.

[Metalheaddaddy]

Hell yes I'm going to get it. There's too many people I love that I don't want to see ripped away from me due to a disease.

 

There's a great post on reddit (I know. I know, but feel free to check the claims yourself) that explains how it was about to be done so fast.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/k96ng0/how_is_it_possible_to_create_a_safe_and_effective/

 

The TLDR is lots of government money and lots of red tape ignored.

 

We do actually know a lot about this vaccine. This isn't a typical vaccine where you get injection with a weakened version. Instead a harmless strain of the viruses rna is injected. And your body learns to make proteins to fight it.

 

We also had a world wide control group to compare to the trials.

 

Speaking of trials, many were conducted in labs running separate trails. The ability to repurpose saved a lot of time. Locations didn't need to be scouted, buildings didn't need renovation, staff didn't need to be hired and trained.

 

 

The world came together to mature this breakthrough happen. I'm not gonna turn my back on that progress.

[Guest angel babygirl Gina tv]

I think that all we can do is be patient and wait our turn

[PapaGrayWolf]

This pandemic calls for action, not passivity.  Just an opinion.

[Frog]

I'm in a high risk group, but I'm going to wait. I know I'm risking my life by doing so. But I've seen so many places so behind that I'm going to let others get theirs.

[Guest BigDaddyDominant]

Frog high risk here too and no I won't wait. I have too many health issues to risk getting sick.

[RussianScorpio]

I am almost certain that I got Covid in December of 2019. The company I work for had been sending people to China, and the first person that came back got really sick. 1 week after that , myself and 4 others got REALLY sick. I lost 18lbs in a matter of a week.....I didn't know that was even possible without dying.....it was unbelievable (I was ripped afterwards though, LOL). That was the sickest I had ever been, and I can totally see what I had killing someone in poor health, someone older, or even someone in decent health. I didn't go to the hospital, but I probably should have. I didn't regain normal lung function until about March of 2020. Still don't think I got back t0 100%.

 

In total, we probably had 20-30 people in just my general area take sick leave in December 2019 and early January 2020.

 

With that being said, I still don't think I will take the "vaccine."  Unproven, brought on very quickly, and I already had the virus. I am in very good shape, so I will take my chances.

[MJA78]

same here. December 26th 2019 I became ill. Everyone at my work caught it, one was hospitalized with unknown respiratory infection. Regular flues don't really bother me that much. Usually a fever will break about a half hour after taking medication but when I had the Covid fever, it wouldn't break for over 36 hours if I remember right. Also lost taste and smell for a day even though I had a slight runny nose. Had a horrible cough where I ended up coughing up blood I think because I tore something when coughing. The weakness was also really bad. Chest congestion was bad but never had a shortness of breath. The illness I had was traced to a hospital.

[quietlittlepixie]

This is a great topic just saying!

 

I've been wanting to discuss this for weeks, but don't really have anyone around me in my immediate personal life that would understand unfortunately.

 

Personally with the vaccine I am still very in between in whether or not I should or shouldn't get it. I am a chronically ill, asthmatic, with a terrible immune system.

 

Although I want to get the vaccine, to make my chances of getting covid a lot smaller than I would without it, I am hesitant that it could wreak a bit of havoc in my body, moreso than my ailments already do to me. Plus side affects with new medicine, especially one that has been rushed, also makes me extremely nervous of it's beneficial properties, and ingredients. 

 

But then I feel like if I don't get it, that I'm doing a huge disservice to the people around me in my community, and myself, because I could simply just be a carrier of the virus, and get others sick, or I'm setting myself up for failure. 

 

It's been waving heavy on my heart, and even though I'm not in the current group yet to get it, I hope I can come to a finalized decision to help myself and others.