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Augie Ray 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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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

@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?