COVID vaccine? Does it do anything?

[Greybottle]

I jumped at getting the COVID vaccines when they came out and I got all the vaccines that I was eligible for to date except for this year.

I got COVID in the summer time and I wasn't able to get the vaccine this winter. My GP recommended a 4 month wait.

It's just I got COVID twice. Once in 2022 and I had that bad too. I wasn't hospitalised but still I was ill with fever, body aches, headaches and coughs for over a week. I was rushed back to work prepaturely when I still wasn't 100% better.

I got COVID this summer too. I was floored with it.

A lot of people were floored with it this summer. Even though we got the COVID vaccines.

It's just I got a reminder text to book the vaccine today and I just don't know.

I am not anti vaccine but what is the point of the vaccine when youre still going to get exposed and become ill to this anyways?

I got flu in 2004 or 2005 and I was getting flu vaccine because of my work from about 2008 and I never had flue since 04/05. The flu vaccine works. But I am questioning the COVID vaccine? What is the point of going out of my way to travel to an establishment to get jabbed and sore for a few days and if I am exposed to COVID, I am likely still going to get it.

This year's vaccine has 4 strains in it, previous ones were single strain only. The vaccine can't prevent you catching covid but it reduces how much you suffer with it (if at all). The flu jab is developed against the most common strain - 2 years ago I had my flu jab and a few months later was ill for over a month as I'd caught a different strain (I've never had covid).

Anecdotal ( before anyone jumps down my throat) but myself, husband and 3 sons have had none of the injections.
I assume we've had covid but at the most were rough for a day.
I know lots and lots of people who have had however many boosters and have been very ill with covid.
i also know lots of people who were very pro the injections and now say they wouldn't have any more after the horrendous side effects.
personally, I wouldn't have a covid injection even if paid.

The vaccine reduces the severity of Covid if you get it and hopefully prevents you from becoming seriously ill.

well, reducing the severity is a guess and again, anecdotally, people who had the vaccine appear to get iller than those who don't.

Medical and scientifically the vaccine reduces the severity which is why the vaccine is amended to protect against the latest variant.

possibly, but in the real world it does bugger all ( except cause side effects) unless you're over about 75

Well that didn't take long.

?? Sorry, I don't understand.
is it considered bad form to reply to a post quickly?

If it reduced severity - how come I still needed paxlovid - the covid anti viral? I was so ill with covid in the summer time. The vaccine did sweet f*ck all. I was still floored.

because it doesn't reduce severity.
Love it when you hear people say they've had all the injections, all the boosters and felt really ill with covid.
Then they go on to say imagine how ill I'd have been without the injections!!

The vaccine was brutal for me this year. But I'd rather feel rough than risk COVID knocking me on my arse for weeks. Even if every fibre is my being wants to swerve it next year.

More so as the flu vaccine is none negotiable after having proper flu. I had to do proper flu before screwing my head on tight over the complacency of not getting the vaccine.

*I wish people would stop calling them side effects. They're not side effects, it's an immune response.

so the myocarditis/ strokes/ menstrual issues aren't side effects?

Top tip: if you describe something being injected into you as 'brutal' it's probably best not to take it again

Are you a doctor or virologist?

It's painfully obvious that you have no medical training and very little grasp or science.

no, are you?

You could have been even worse without the vaccine and ended up in hospital.

Married to one who has worked on the Covid wards

It was probably a different strain. The virus mutates. Presumably you are invited for the vaccine as you are in a risk group.

remember when the injections first had the big roll out?
Remember people pointing out the heart/ neurological/ menstrual issues?
Remember how they were slated on here for being thick conspiracy theorists?
remember them being told those issues were nothing to do with the injections and unless you're a medical professor of some sort then your opinion is worthless?
I remember it very well

haha, there we go!

that's nice ( and irrelevant)

I take my information from an expert rather than someone with no expertise in the subject

good for you. I take it your spouse is actively working in the field of studying side effects and the risk/ benefit ratio of the injections? or are they just basing it on personal experience on the wards?

Like fibromyalgia / heart problems / blood clots and other auto immune disorders I'm seeing in my anti vax friendship group who have had COVID, which was 'like a cold'. Life long stuff. Seems I'm hearing one diagnoses after another IRL. Not what ever is being posted on the internet.

A point being missed here is that different genetics lead to different levels of illness with Covid. Some people are lucky enough to get a mild bout, others die. It may be that if you're one who has been lucky so far, then the vaccine hasn't made much of a difference to you. Can't guarantee that that will be true for future variants though.