• @BonesOfTheMoonOP
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    153 months ago

    I still mask everywhere and will have my ninth vaccine next month. I’ve been lucky to only have one mild case that was basically a stuffy nose. I feel very fortunate, and I take it really seriously.

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      63 months ago

      The only 2 things I’ve had that were worse than the last time I had COVID:

      • Pneumonia when I was 15, so sick I had to be carried to the washroom.
      • Whooping cough earlier this year, coughing so much I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t walk more than 3 or 4 meters in a go
      • @[email protected]
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        43 months ago

        I had the real influenza which was a bit worse, but I wasn’t vaccinated 3 times against that. Covid gave me over 6 months of loss of smell, that was terrible.

      • @BonesOfTheMoonOP
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        43 months ago

        Ugh whooping cough is awful. I’ve never had it. I wonder if I should get a booster.

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          33 months ago

          If you have easy access to a booster… fuckin do it!
          I was sick as a dog for 3 weeks, started being symptomatic late Feb, was well enough to work again by mid March…had a persistent cough until early June, and due to health monitoring at work my lung capacity and strength has been verified as having gone down about 5%. It’s almost October and I still have a bit of a cough, not all the time like right after the worst of it, but if it’s cold, or humid, or I’ve been lying down for a few hours(say around 2am)…

          Anyway, definitely get a booster if you can.

          • @BonesOfTheMoonOP
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            43 months ago

            I’ll ask my GP. I do not fool around with getting vaccines as needed, that’s for sure. I just don’t know what the policy is.

            Would I be a bad person if I fibbed to public health to get an Mpox vaccine by telling them I have multiple sex partners? I don’t but I would like one because it’s spread by touch.

            • @[email protected]
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              13 months ago

              Would I be a bad person if I fibbed to public health

              Idk fam, that’s a call you need to take for yourself.

                • @[email protected]
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                  13 months ago

                  I’d weigh up your risk factors. Could get it by just telling the truth if you’re in a risk group.

                  • @BonesOfTheMoonOP
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                    13 months ago

                    It’s mostly that I work in health care and it spreads by touch.

      • @BonesOfTheMoonOP
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        23 months ago

        I don’t fool around with vaccines. I’m serious about them.