• @[email protected]
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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
    • @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.

      • @[email protected]
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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.

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                    23 months ago

                    I mean… that seems like a pretty big risk factor, not just for you but the wider web of people who could be infected if you were…

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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.