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B4ward67 Sep 27, 2023

You get flu once every 8-10 years.
Most people get #COVID19 more than once a year.
It seems like a terrible idea for a virus that we KNOW:

Damages brains
https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/does-covid-19-damage-the-brain

Damages hearts
https://apnews.com/article/covid19-long-covid-heart-3dd8f26c663e96bffcc2980830626153

Causes diabetes
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2391359-covid-19-linked-to-elevated-risk-of-type-1-diabetes-in-young-children/

Causes long-term alterations in your body’s immune response
https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2023/08/severe-covid-19-can-alter-long-term-immune-system-response

Causes erectile dysfunction
https://www.webmd.com/covid/covid-erectile-dysfunction

May encourage cancer
https://www.ajmc.com/view/kashyap-patel-md-sees-link-between-covid-19-and-cancer-progression-calls-for-more-biomarker-testing

Causes disability
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230828/Insights-into-COVID-19s-aftermath-2-year-study-examines-lasting-health-effects.aspx

Does COVID-19 damage the brain? - Harvard Health

Most people who get COVID-19 don't suffer damage to the brain. But some do, and even people who initially get just mild COVID symptoms are vulnerable. COVID's potential to damage the brain is anoth...

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Linda Sep 27, 2023

@augieray Thank you for the content that you post about COVID. Not enough people want to face the reality of the situation. I don't like it but here we are...so I wear a mask now and I got the new fall 2023 vaccine last week. We are traveling next week. I expect we will receive stares on the plane because we will wear a mask (except when eating one meal). If we still catch COVID, at least we know we did everything we could to try not to.

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ten white women in the suburbs Sep 27, 2023

@augieray but nobody wants to work anymore

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Wario 🌊🇺🇸💉

Sep 27, 2023

@augieray
I just got my new COVID shot.
In a couple of weeks I will be at my maximum immunity.
So if I get COVID, it shouldn't be as bad as it would have been.
Everybody go get the new vaccine ASAP.

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Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌Sep 27, 2023

@augieray Coronavirus is the multipurpose weapon the flu isn't.

COVID is the Coronavirus- & human-contact-induced vascular disease, that can be kind of kept at bay with people's cooperation & sense of responsibility — vaccination, masks & close-contact-awareness.

#SaveLives #GetVaccinated #MaskUp #COVID #StaySafe #StayAware

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turingmach Sep 27, 2023

@augieray The vaccine gave me myocarditis though. I was weak for months. I know it doesn’t happen to most people but not sure who to point the finger at for not informing me of the risks.

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Mike D Sep 28, 2023

@augieray
Once every 8-10 years?? I was having it once a year. That stopped once I started getting yearly flu shots when COVID started.

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theMamiyaMan 🇺🇦 🇨🇦Sep 28, 2023

@augieray Given the comments of the anti Vax crowd this seems self evident.

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Texty the Bard Sep 28, 2023

@augieray I've gotten as many vax doses as I'm allowed (getting the newest this weekend.) I live in a high vax % metro, don't go out much, and mask when I do. My main exposure vector is my 10 y/o, who masks in school (though not perfectly; he's neurodivergent.)

I've had COVID twice and have had two more illnesses that never tripped a test but had the same symptoms. I have Long COVID, too.

I'm doing everything as right as I can, but the vaxes just aren't good enough, and that's infuriating.

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Texty the Bard Sep 28, 2023

@augieray I've been getting my annual flu shot for ~20 years, and haven't had it since. If the COVID vaxes actually worked to prevent infection, or at least symptomatic infection, more people would have gotten them, and we wouldn't still be in crisis. We've had three years for them to create a vax that actually works, and still don't have one. Why? I get that the mutations have made it hard, but still. Has any other virus in the modern age been this hard to stop?

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