Coronavirus **personal experiences** thread

Off-topic Chatter
7691

If you wear a mask below the nose because your glasses fog then don’t expect your mask to do much. If you only wear a mask to comply with some rule then it’s a different matter. Of course if the fogging causes an actual safety issue you must rectify it by any means as it will be more dangerous than the virus.

Masks with good fit will fog your glasses way less than poorly fitting masks. I find that a N95 or a good fitting surgical mask will fog my glasses much less than a KN95 with earloops or a cloth mask (I don’t have any KN94 to compare).

7692

I had to look down when he passed me so he couldn’t see me Smirking

Around my area cases are way down and things are pretty much back to normal as normal can get — I was totally floored today going get a massage that they required mask and took my temp —- The therapist just kind of nodded in the room that it was cool to take it off

7693

Different kind of “happy ending”?

7694

Ahh — The simple pleasures in life —- No Fricken Mask

7695

I can only only imagine you had to “look down”… :wink: :smiley:

I could us a massage right now after cutting grass & working in the yard much of the day.
It was hot & muggy. My old arse is about whipped… :weary:

7696

All of the above… :white_check_mark:

7697

I just heard on the radio & verified it online, there is now a Delta Plus Variant.

That is all…. :white_check_mark:

7698

It has been circulating here and in other countries for (at least) 3 weeks now.
A news on BBC (Delta plus India: Scientists say too early to tell risk of Covid-19 variant) on the 23rd June states:

Still, by that time it was still too early to assess it’s threat level.

I got my 1st dose of vaccine this morning. :partying_face:
It was from Pfizer, and the 2nd dose is scheduled for the 6th August.

So far so good, I don’t feel effects other than on the place it was received, that sometimes reminds me it is there, specially when lifting the arm up (which has been a common thing among my friends and even girlfriend).

Keep safe folks :+1:

7699

When variants significantly start avoiding vaccins, like: you go to hospital and may die despite fully vaccinated, you have my attention.

Then the rich countries are punished for not vaccinating the entire world ASAP and let the giant variant factory persist.

7700

I don’t recall news of variants before the vaccine rollout.

7701

There were variants from the start but the really nasty ones started to take over at the time of the first vaccinations. But they were not caused by the vaccinations, they were caused by the huge numbers of infections in the world, mutation rate is a random thing so is lineairly related to the number of virus particles present.

7702

Let’s hope this doesn’t begin to resemble the Marek’s disease vaccine situation.

7703

What kind of a sane person would take a vaccine blindly without checking the background of the companies behind these vaccines… Really !!!

Read this if you dare:

18 Reasons I Won’t Be Getting a Covid Vaccine

Seems like some kind of mass hypnosis, or black magic or something !!!

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As for the “experiences” from these things called “vaccines” that I know of, our neighbor’s (3 buildings away) son in law - 35 years old - died 4 days after taking the vaccine in Dubai. He had 3 young children they are here now in Damascus, Syria with their mother.

Few months ago, a jeweler who went to the US also died after a week of taking the vaccine.

My uncle in Germany and my aunt in Austria and their families took the Pfizer, a sore arm and tiredness… my aunt is still tired most of the time… I hope nothing happens in the long term.

Few relatives in the US took the vaccines - haven’t asked them which ones - sore arms and headaches for few days…

Some friends and relatives have taken the vaccine in my country, we have AstraZeneca and the Russian vaccines.
one of my mother’s friends had the Trigeminal neuralgia.

Could it be from the PCR test swabs after so many tests ?!
As far as I know there are very sensitive nerves and bone in that area where they stick that long thingy inside people’s head !!

7704

Please don’t assume that we are blind and/or insane. I’m sure that those here who have received it as well as those who don’t want it have researched it and arrived at their own conclusions. But that’s not a topic for a flashlight forum and should not be discussed here. This thread is for personal experiences only.

7705

A question ONLY for anyone in the USA (who might care to answer) who is, or will soon be; fully vaccinated.

  • Phizer is recommending a booster shot.
  • CDC & FDA say, at this point; a booster shot is not necessary.

If given a choice, which advice do you take??

7706

I want a booster. I only had one shot of J&J in March.

I asked my doctor, and was told boosters are not yet authorized, and to check back for new CDC guidance in August.

I know someone that had covid, and got antibody testing each month after they recovered. The antibodies disappeared after 3 months. So to me, that means the protection wears off. This is not a lifetime immunity situation, it is different than measles, chicken pox, and polio.

The latest info I have seen, suggests that my vaccine continues to work for 6 months or more. I would like to be tested for antibodies, to confirm Im still protected.

7707

:+1: :+1:

7708

Does anything prevent you from just walking in and getting a Pfizer/Moderna shot? Or even another J&J jab? Do they check your prior vaccine history first? Or by “booster” do you mean a new tweaked version that might exist in the future?

7709

I’m going to wait and see. If things go backwards next winter and news of vaccinated people getting seriously sick goes up then yes I will get a booster. I was encouraged by news of antibody evidence found in bone marrow but not showing up in regular tests.

7710

I tried that, but it is not an option.

to get a shot, I must apply to the Health Department, my name must be on the list approved by the Health Department, when I go to one of the places that administers the shots., and the Health Department wont give me that approval, because Im already vaccinated, until the CDC (US Federal Govt Center for Disease Control) authorizes boosters…

the word booster does not necessarily mean a different design of vaccine… I would be happy to just get a shot of any of the available vaccines.

Here in USA there are still many places that have failed to achieve a 50% vaccination rate. And those people are travelling, without masks on. They come from places that have no Mask Mandate. In fact, the CDC has lifted the mask mandate nationwide now. Technically the no mask option is supposed to be only for people that are fully vaccinated. But there is no way to tell if a person with no mask is vaccinated, or simply chose not to cooperate.

At present, the available vaccines are reserved for people that have not had any.

its kind of like going to a banquet dinner, and everybody gets served, before anybody gets seconds… Right now, half the people in USA, have not been served the first course, and half of those do not want to eat.

this has created a huge reserve of unvaccinated people who are passing the corona around. Unvaccinated people now represent the largest portion of people infected, and dying, in this country. But they are not just a risk to themselves, it affects everyone they come in contact with.

From where I sit, the large number of people who are refusing the vaccine, are my main risk. The unvaccinated are the reason I want to extend my protection, by getting another shot.

I have not seen my family in Cali in almost 2 years. I do not feel protected enough to go travelling through airports, on a 4 month old vaccine. fwiw, the J&J vaccine I got was a single shot, and has a lower protection rate than the dual shot vaccines.

this is also true of people that had covid, they are less protected than people that are vaccinated. Unvaccinated people that had covid, can catch it again. But most people that had covid, mistakenly think they are immune for life, so they do not wear masks either.