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Has anyone had the 2023 updated Covid shot?

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Thanks sushicat. Sorry for what you had to go through with Covid.

It is a strange, and unfortunately/illogically, a political virus. And yeah the number of people getting the booster is pathetically low. I don't get it - people have short memories I guess.

I had a very mild case of Covid (in 2022 I think, after being vaxxed a few times) and I probably would have missed it but had an extra test kit. I had very mild cold symptoms/sore throat for five days, and that's it. And I was 68 y/o at the time.

I just hope that all the ignorance about the virus doesn't cause a new surge in serious infections. I don't think it will happen because enough people have either had it, and lived, or been vaxxed.

And you are absolutely right when you say we know very little about this virus. LC is a mystery. I was 68 and got mild symptoms. My trainer is 27 and the picture of health, was vaxxed, and caught it and was out for a week with a temp over 100 degrees. It's nothing to mess with.

But conspiracy theories abound and won't be quelled. So for those of us who understand this virus' potential for harm, and understand the overwhelming safety profile of vaccinations, I hope we can live healthy lives.

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sushicat | @sushicat | Oct 22, 2023

Quick note: the US has experienced a new surge this summer/fall, it is just harder to “see” because of data suppression. Cases are no longer being reported, hospitals are not testing every patient, and hospital deaths in patients that turned out to be Covid positive end up in the “with Covid” pile, not “of Covid.”

Covid kills not only during the acute phase of the infection, but in the months after. Heart attack, stroke, clots. But now there is evidence that some cancers are being triggered or accelerated by post Covid syndrome. Then there are the new autoimmune diseases and neurodegenerative ones.

Remember the Spanish Flu of 1918? In the years that followed, there was a wave of extreme-rigidity Parkinson’s disease that permanently disabled many people, including the very young. It was because of that flu virus, which was novel at the time. The movie “Awakenings” with Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams is about those patients lives, decades later.

I know I’m coming off as a Debbie Downer, but I think there is a lot more Covid devastation ahead of us. Maybe not in morgue trucks and body tents outside my NYC apartment. But in the fallout from repeat infections in the vaccinated, unvaccinated and under vaccinated. I worry about people with many decades of life ahead of them more than I worry about my middle-aged self.

I sure hope we get a sterilizing vaccine soon.

Take care.

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