The ol' 'Rona - got sick? Got vaccinated? Tell us!

GoldRanger

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So after a long period of indicisivness I've just went and got the first doze of the Pfizer vaccine, and felt like sharing with you guys.

Anyone else? Curious to see how many of us have decided to vaccinate.

I also wonder if anyone here got actually infected, or know someone who did. My parents got it a couple months ago, they're fine now but for my mother it wasn't a fun ride (my father was almost asymptomatic for some reason).

Oh, and please leave both pro and anti vaccination advocacy or any political debates about the virus or the world's response to it at the door. This is not the thread for that, we have a political subforum for a reason. This thread is just for personal experiences.
 

Husky_Khan

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How the hell did you get your first dose? Did you dress up in Scrubs or as an old lady or are you just FILTHY RICH?
 

Buba

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I know two blokes who had it (their wives also had it, but I don't know the wives). All are alive and well (all 45-50 y/o range). The one I've talked about it dismissed my opinion that "it's just a 'flu", saying that his wife was very weak, the effects being worse than the usual annual malady. He himself did not find it any worse than the usual stuff, though ...

My parents - c.85 - vaxxed themselves and were weak for a few days. Well, the Hunger Years both sides of WWII didn't kill them, so what's a little vaccine to them ...

If I say simply that personally I refuse to vaccine against Covid-19 will that be advocacy? If yes, I can delete this line ...
 
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Bacle

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My grandfather did the the two dose vaccine over the last month, and so far there have been no ill-effects we can tie to the vaccine. He's 96 so he's got other health issues we have to watch, and nothing new has popped up since he got the shots.

Had a few friends who've had the bug recently, said the biggest difference was the lack of taste. One could drink vinegar straight while he had it and not taste a thing, which is rather unnerving.
 

GoldRanger

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How the hell did you get your first dose? Did you dress up in Scrubs or as an old lady or are you just FILTHY RICH?
I'm Israeli. Anyone over the age of 16 can just open up an app and make an appointment. I made mine the very same morning I got vaccinated, they had slots open starting from about an hour later, but due to work and other considerations I made it for the afternoon.

After a 15 minute drive I arrived at the shopping mall where the healthcare provider had its vaccination center deployed, walked in, got vaccinated by a volunteering IDF medic, got out. Didn't take an hour in total. Have my second shot scheduled for March. Didn't have to pay anything either (directly at least, taxes, monthly fees and such are another matter)
 

GoldRanger

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Had a few friends who've had the bug recently, said the biggest difference was the lack of taste. One could drink vinegar straight while he had it and not taste a thing, which is rather unnerving.
My mom lost her sense of smell (and completely at that, tried to smell perfume, coffee straight from the can... nothing), but not the sense of taste. Strange how these things work.

I know two blokes who had it (their wives also had it, but I don't know the wives). All are alive and well (all 45-50 y/o range). The one I've talked about it dismissed my opinion that "it's just a 'flu", saying that his wife was very weak, the effects being worse than the usual annual malady. He himself did not find it any worse than the usual stuff, though ...

This thing hits different people very differently. For my mother it wasn't just a flu, she literally couldn't stand up for a few days, completely lost her sense of balance. And she's not THAT old, only in her sixties, and still working to boot, by no means a venerable old lady.

And both my parents say that they get tired much more easily by physical activity ever since they got sick, even though they've recovered over a month ago.

That thing is not a flu.
 

Abhorsen

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Yeah, I'm going to get the vaccine as soon as practical. I'm young, but immunosuppressed, so IDK how risky it is for me. If it doesn't increase my risk of harm from the disease, I'll hold off so others can get it, but I'm not really sure.
 

Zachowon

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Some family and friends had gotten the bug itself.
My brother and sister in law noth said it was like the flu for them. My brothers doctor even told him, any other year he would have just said it was the Flu.
My friend has Asymptomatic.

I will be forced to get the vaccine
 

Lord Sovereign

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I'll be taking it when possible, although preferably the Oxford vaccine because that's a more traditional one in terms of how it works. I view it as essentially the same as a flu jab to my year group. Given how much grief the flu jab saves you with flu, I think the Covid jab is equally worthwhile.
 

Ash's Boomstick

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I'll be getting mine sometime in May or June from what I can find out and yes I have no issue having it as I usually spend time with people wo are on the vulnerability spectrum. I have had several extended family members who have had it (aunts, uncles cousins), several work colleagues as well, my parents and brother all had to go into ten day quarantine as there was a risk that they had been exposed.

Oddly enough I did have a flu bug last January, right at the end of the month, didn't think anything of it because I always get one Jan/Feb every year. But it is possible I had Covid back then, but then its just as possible I had standard flu, who knows?
 

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