COVID-19 vaccines: medical concerns and recommendations

[Baldanders]

You guys are right I may be splitting hairs too finely. They are both available I just have to drive 15 min and get it. Anyway maybe in the am. Maybe Ill just flip a coin.

Whichever one you get, after "doing a study" 😉 I have proved flapping your arm like a chicken wing before the shot, for 10 minutes or so, majorly reduces arm pain later.

Or it was a complete coincidence. Worse case, it still stings later and you looked like you lost your mind in public.

Either way, cheers!

ETA: if I could remember the name of the PF member who "did the groundbreaking original research" I based my "study" on, I would credit them. Unfortunately, I can't remember who made the observation "hey I worked out super hard and no more arm pain doodes."

[sickeness]

annyvaccine>covid

Oh really?
I've had it twice 18 months apart and it wasn't all that bad, but mind you I'm a decent shape and don't have any comorbidities.

Can someone explain to me why I keep being told that taking the vaccine is somehow better than antibodies that nature intended my body to produce? It appears already established that the vax doesn't prevent you from getting or spreading it so what exactly is the point for me?

[CCT125US]

Oh really?
I've had it twice 18 months apart and it wasn't all that bad, but mind you I'm a decent shape and don't have any comorbidities.

Can someone explain to me why I keep being told that taking the vaccine is somehow better than antibodies that nature intended my body to produce? It appears already established that the vax doesn't prevent you from getting or spreading it so what exactly is the point for me?

Because, just like buying the newest, greatest blaster, people have the tendency to sing praises from on high as a means to justify the purchase..

I'm not anti vax, just pro choice. Do you, and leave me the fuck alone.

[pangloss]

Oh really?
I've had it twice 18 months apart and it wasn't all that bad, but mind you I'm a decent shape and don't have any comorbidities.

Can someone explain to me why I keep being told that taking the vaccine is somehow better than antibodies that nature intended my body to produce? It appears already established that the vax doesn't prevent you from getting or spreading it so what exactly is the point for me?

Sure. The vaccine stimulates about 10x the level of antibodies that infection does. That's on average. If I start picking data, the comparison can be greater than 50x in some cases. Also, some young healthy unvaccinated people end up in the ICU and/or dead. Vaccination essentially eliminates this worst case scenario.

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[pangloss]

I'm not anti vax, just pro choice. Do you, and leave me the fuck alone.

And that would be great if I had the choice to not share the air with you or the unvaccinated, infected people struggling to breathe in the two tent hospitals set up in the parking decks because they have over-filled the entire hospital system in this state. But that is a discussions more appropriate for the politics thread and not this one focused on medical aspects of infection and vaccination.

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[CCT125US]

And that would be great if I had the choice to not share the air with you or the unvaccinated, infected people struggling to breathe in the two tent hospitals set up in the parking decks because they have over-filled the entire hospital system in this state. But that is a discussions more appropriate for the politics thread and not this one focused on medical aspects of infection and vaccination.

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Do you support mandatory vaccinations?

[pangloss]

Do you support mandatory vaccinations?

That's a political topic and not appropriate for this thread. If you want to tag me in the other thread I'll respond there later today if I have time or tonight.

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[CCT125US]

That's a political topic and not appropriate for this thread. If you want to tag me in the other thread I'll respond there later today if I have time or tonight.

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Really!? I believe that is an entirely appropriate question to ask of a scientist in the "medical concearns and recommendations" thread.

[HCM]

Really!? I believe that is an entirely appropriate question to ask of a scientist in the "medical concearns and recommendations" thread.

This is why we can’t have nice things….

[Borderland]

Oh really?
I've had it twice 18 months apart and it wasn't all that bad, but mind you I'm a decent shape and don't have any comorbidities.

Can someone explain to me why I keep being told that taking the vaccine is somehow better than antibodies that nature intended my body to produce? It appears already established that the vax doesn't prevent you from getting or spreading it so what exactly is the point for me?

For you personally, there is no point. I don't think anyone said that you would for sure die, or even be hospitalized, if you got covid. Lots of people will however.

Have you got the Delta variant yet?