Who plans to get the covid 19 VACCINE when it comes out
- Thread starter Gekko2020
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Say what?!
I’ve already had my booster shot and look forward to the next one in due course. (They’re like peanuts; you can’t just have one.)
I'm experiencing the same thing with my throat, and my voice. Overall I feel pretty good, but the congestion is hanging on, but not a problem, more annoyance.I got Omicron a little bit before you did. I think it's my sixth day now. For me, it's been like a lingering head cold. My throat is what it seems to be clinging onto the most. Like I can't talk for more than a minute. My voice goes from somewhat normal to very raspy to almost completely gone within the span of a minute. My wife said she doesn't mind this symptom because now she doesn't have to listen to any of my long-winded stories.
I kept working out throughout, whether that helped or not I don't know.
My wife and oldest had to go back in and retest yesterday, both positive again, no surprise. They both can go back to work tommorow, as they aren't showing any symptoms. I am not sure what the point of the retest was, other than they could have gone back today instead.
Baron
ET Founder
I've got a friend circle of 12 people that I go on several trips per year with, and so far, everybody in the group has Omicron except for one, and she lives out in the middle of nowhere in Utah. Several other people in the group that are currently infected by this variant have been vaccinated but they didn't get any boosters past the initial double shot vaccine. What's interesting is that the one person in the group who has been on top of getting the vaccines and boosters is the one person who has Omicron the worst. She has been bedridden for days and just texted me yesterday saying "I haven't been this sick in a long, long time."
Based upon what I'm seeing here locally, it doesn't seem like the prior vaccines and boosters are doing very much to battle this particular variant.
I don't know. It doesn't affect everyone exactly the same way or with the same intensity, depending on immunological response. Who's to say that your boostered friend would not have been worse off if she didn't get all three doses? You don't know until you know.
I'm surprised you're flying without a net. Why so?
Baron
ET Founder
I was one of the first to get Covid (January 2020) and the natural immunity provided by that was awesome. The next time I got it was after a trip to Key West in the spring of 2021. I'm not sure if that was Delta or some other strain. Those antibodies got me through for the remainder of the year until this Omicron thing popped up, so hopefully after this is over, I'll have what I need to provide a good amount of defense until some nutty variant comes along next year.
Being in Orlando where people travel here from all over the world, it just seems like we always get infected with this stuff before there's any vaccine or treatment available for that specific strain. So when I hear about various vaccines and boosters that become available, my response is always the same: "Great. That would have been really useful like 10 months ago".
Truth be told, just because your friend tested positive for Omicron and is sick, doesn't mean she is sick from Omicron. It could also be a case of Influenza, or even worse, this thing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_syncytial_virus
I am darn sure this is what I had in August of last year, when me and my housemates all fell ill with what sure as hell fit the bill for COVID. After 5-6 days of the symptoms, we all got PCR lab tests for COVID, and they came back negative. (And we completed our double-dose Pfizer shots in the spring.)
So it was a mystery. It was only after we had recovered that I started a bit o' research, and found out there was an endemic wave of RSV that moved quickly through the Northeast during that same time.
So perhaps your friend could get an RSV test?
Baron
ET Founder
Honestly, that makes no sense whatsoever. Are you back on the gummies again?
*sighs* If you have both Omicron and RSV in your system, and test positive for both Omicron and RSV, and they cause the same symptoms, which one is logically the one your body is having trouble with? The virus you are vaccinated against, or the one you are not?