Is it normal that i got covid-19, despite being fully vaccinated?

I find it depressing that so many people lack a basic understanding of how vaccines work.

When you got your Covid vaccine, your body didn't start to produce an invisible force field that repelled any Covid viruses that happened to waft your way on the beer-breath belched by some MAGA hat wearing idiot. If your immune system responded in the normal way (which doesn't always happen), it recognised the vaccine as something that did not belong in your bloodstream, began to produce antibodies, and stored the memory of what the invading particles "looked" like so it would be quickly noticed and promptly attacked from all sides if it appeared again.

This means that it is entirely possible to catch Covid even if you've been fully vaccinated. Some people's immune system responds so aggressively that the viruses never replicate to the point where they notice the symptoms. With other people - and particularly with variants forms - the virus is able to sneak under the radar for a while before the immune system notices what's going on and attacks.

What the statistics make absolutely clear is that, as a rule, the effect of the virus on those who have been double vaccinated is much less severe than it is for those who have not been vaccinated. In the UK at the moment, virtually everyone who's receiving ICU care due to Covid is either unvaccinated or vaccinated but also elderly or was suffering from serious health issues before they caught the virus.

If the virus made you feel pretty shitty, you can be sure that you would have felt much worse if you hadn't primed your immune system to deal with it by getting the vaccine. And, as haunted mentions in their response, there's good evidence suggesting that you being vaccinated reduces the chances of you having to deal with the long-term problems that Covid is causing for very many people.

Of course, you can't replay the last couple of years, refuse the vaccine and find out by experiment how bad you would have got when you caught the virus. And it's human nature to think that something that doesn't work perfectly is really pretty crap and worthless. But the fact is that it's entirely possible that if you hadn't been vaccinated, you could have ended up very seriously ill.

Yes, a fair number of people get another variant of Covid (D - or Delta - is the current biggest concern; L - Lima - is also popping up in certain parts of the world)

The key thing is that your only likely to have a fairly mild case, and not require hospitalization unless your immune system is significantly challenged by other conditions you have.

My wife works in a hospital (Part time) - which is currently full of Covid patients: Almost 100% were never vaccinated. The few who were either were undergoing cancer treatment or had multiple other major health issues.

Because the vaccine don't really do shit. It isn't even really a vaccine.

every professional i talk to says you can still get the virus even if vaccinated, and the vaccine is not really a vaccine but gene therapy, look it up, it attaches itself to your dna and also lowers you immune system making you more likely to get sick.

You can still contract Covid, but your symptoms will be minimal, unlike someone who isn't vaccinated, they are more likely going to need medical assistance or require hospital care...

The vacc wont stop you from getting it, it just makes it as if you do get sick you wont get really really sick..

The Delta variant is causing many deaths in Mauritius. Too many. The health care is no longing being able to follow. It has crashed. Babies, teenagers, people in their twenties are dying.

Two moms died some days after giving birth to covid. It's really sad.

In July the british scientific advisor came out and said 40% of the people in ICUs are vaccinated (he actually said 60% but later said it was opposite because his graph was wrong). At this time 70% of the UK had already had their 2 shots. So yes you can definitely still get a bad case of covid even if you had your shots.

Yeah the vaccine is not a cure mate. If it was it would be called "the covid-19 cure", not "the covid-19 vaccine".

Yeah the vaccine doesn’t stop it, just lessens the symptoms.

You are the ideal before the holidays, alot of us wish we could actually catch covid after being vacinated and then become maximum antibodied, and most no risk.

Yeah normal it only reduces the chance of getting it slightly but dramatically reduces how sick you get so if you aren't vaccinated you have a much higher risk of death or long haul Covid (Covid for a month or more)

Delta variant goes through vaccines, I think. Well, obviously it does, if you got it.

No it's not normal, you might have cancer, as sickness though normal is a bad condition. What you can do when you get the virus is play mobile games and I bloody well hope I get covid so mum can see how serious the situation is.

It’s normal. You permanently fucked up your immune system and will probably be dependent on pharmaceuticals the rest of your life.

Boojum lays it out pretty well, and I'm not an anti vaxer, however, my problem with the vaccine is that you do still get it and you can still spread it.

The op along with many, many people think and were told at numerous times and think, because they're vaccinated they don't need to take precautions. So they go about thinking they are invincible. They get covid, they may not even know they have it, but there out their spreading it around.

There are people who can't take the shot or it doesn't work for. Of course majority of those in the hospital or who get it bad are those unvaccinated. The anti-vaxers and the vaxers are both out there taking no precautions giving it to who ever they may come in contact with.

Quit looking at who's got it and look at who's spreading it. If an anti-vaxer gets it they most likely will get a case that will let them know they have it or they've already had it. It is the vaccinated that majority get such a light case they may not even be aware of it.

That why you shut down travel, to stop those that are spreading it. Not to condemn those that get it or have it.

Natural immunity is proving to be the best and longest lasting protection but even then there have been various breakthrough cases from three months to a year or more after the original case. But again like the vaccinated they've been normally light cases.

How effective do you think water is?