• @BonesOfTheMoonOP
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    413 hours 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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      310 hours 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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        49 hours 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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          19 hours 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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              17 hours 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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                17 hours ago

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

                • @[email protected]
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                  26 hours 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…