Have you been vaccinated for covid-19?
In case you have been, which vaxx did you get? Edit - could u plz also say why not if that's the case? And also if you intend to.
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charli.m
We only really have the Astrazeneca here right now, and it's been recommended people under 50 don't get it. I'm still open to getting it after I have a chance to talk to my doctor, if she thinks it would be best for me. I think the risks are pretty low.
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Boojum
The blood-clot risk is extremely low. The last figure I saw was a 1:100,000 chance for a young person who gets the AstraZeneca vaccine. Interestingly, out of 100,000 women on the contraceptive pill, the odds are that one of them will get some form of blood clot in any given week. My recollection is that a large proportion of the younger people who had blood clots which were linked to the AZ vaccine were also on the Pill; how they disentangled those two factors and attributed the clots to the vaccine I don't know. Maybe it was simply a worst-case assumption.
Perceived risk is a weird thing, but I'm sure you're aware of that. Something that doesn't get a lot of space in the media is how quite a few younger people who don't suffer anything dire in the acute phase of Covid have a wide range of weird, lingering issues that can go on for months.
For what it's worth, both I (mid-sixties) and my wife (mid-fifties) have had our first doses AZ vaccine. Flu vaccinations never bother us much, but we definitely knew we'd been hit with something this time. Nothing drastic for me, but generally achy and feeling crap. My wife had it worse, with the nasty fever-chills thing, and she said it felt like her bones and teeth were aching. It hit pretty fast, and she spent most of the day after the vaccine in bed dozing and feeling very sorry for herself. The day after that, she was much better, but low-energy and easily tired. She woke up the next morning feeling fine.
From what I've read, that's pretty typical. We're not exactly looking forward to the second dose, since our understanding is that that's the one that people really react to. Although it seems that if nothing really horrible happens after the first one, the worst that's likely after the second is feeling seriously shitty for a few days because the immune system has gone ballistic.
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charli.m
Yeah, that's my reasoning, too. The balance is, the blood clot thing with the vaccine does seem to have a higher mortality rate than a birth control pill blood clot...but as you say, it's very rare.
In Australia (unless new cases today) we've bad three cases of the blood clotting from the vaccine and one has led to death...whereas blood clots from covid...
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Boojum
The AZ-triggered clot thing can obviously be very serious, and citing statistics doesn't make it better if you happen to be one of tiny number of very unlucky people.
But medics are now aware of the possible side-effect, it isn't hard for lay people to find out the warning signs to look out for, and if a clot is rapidly diagnosed and treated, it's not inevitable that it will kill you.
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[Old Memory]
No, the vaccine is rushed, and i have the antibodies from the covid infection already.
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1WeirdGuy
Id rather get covid than the vaccine. Half my family had covid and everyone was fine said it was nothing. Not really worried about it. I never get a flu shot either. If I had diabetes, I was old, or obese I would get it. But since im not at risk and my family did fine with it im not worried about it. I need to get the antibodies test because im 80% sure I had it. My wife and son tested positive I had a sore throat. Probably had covid. Id rather get covid than the flu. The flu is worse on healthy ppl in my opinion.
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LloydAsher
I'm not getting it. Not for any other reason than sheer laziness. It probably works but I'm gonna let sheep go first. I'm at practically zero risk for dying from covid. I'm 20× more likely to die from a homicide.
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olderdude-xx
but, you are likely to spread it to others if you get it - and likely to spread it before you even know you have it...
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LloydAsher
Yeah if you dont wanna get it. Get the vaccine. It's not my fault for someone to get sick if they dont get the vaccine.
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charli.m
And if someone's immunocompromised and can't get vaccinated?
You're right. You're SUCH a nice person.
I rate you a D-
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LloydAsher
Well dont be shopping at walmart. I dont go out of my way to get at risk people sick. That being said you cant pass blame to people like that. I already got covid, I'm fine. Someone who wants to go out in public takes the risk of being hit by a car. Catching covid from a person who didnt vaccinate is their problem to overcome, not mine. Dont scew morals to fit an authoritarian outcome.
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charli.m
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LloydAsher
I care about personal liberties. It's not the goverments place to force vaccines on people, same for the mob wanting people to get vaccinated with a experimental vaccine.
What if I care about not getting blood clots? I care more about getting blood clots than getting covid that I've already gotten.
You are being the moral authoritarian here.
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Tinybird
Not just blood clots but neurological diseases. Fuck that shit. Too much evidence suggests that it's dangerous. And as a hypochondriac with severe tomophobia, I'm not willing to take ANY risks with my health AT ALL. If it ain't broke, DON'T fix it.
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charli.m
You care about yourself and no one else. You don't give a flying fuck about anyone else's personal liberty.
Yeah cos no ones gotten blood clots from covid.
Also, you've said repeatedly you haven't been tested. Sooo...
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jodi1955
hear too many bad reactions for this vaccine, waiting till all the bugs are worked out. then again covid is a mutated flu and I never get the flu shot,
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freakyman69
I got the 1st shot. have to go back for the 2nd one in early May. pfizer is what i got.
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Cuntsiclestick
I got the Moderna vaccine. My arm was sore for days after each dose. It kind of felt like the soreness one gets post workout but magnified. Other than that slight annoyance, I was just fine. XD
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Whatintarnation
Got the Phizer. Arm was sore after the first one and I felt like crap the next day after the second one. Other than that no problems. A lot of people I know have gotten both shots now and haven't had any issues. Just mild flu like symptoms after the second shot for a few of them.
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MonteMetcalfe
Pfizer. Felt mildly ill for two days after the second dose. Not too bad.
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techpc
No, but I intend to. My job can involve many random people(usually it doesn't, but it can).
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