Who is excited to get the covid vaccine?

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You know we live in a weird time when getting a vaccine is exciting when before the pandemic, we all took that for granted.

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Well tomorrow morning I go in for my 2nd shot. its interesting reading everyone different points of view weather to get it or not

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Well after getting my second dose of the physer vaccine saturday morning around 7:30am I can tell you that it zapped me. I was super tired a few hours later and even called out of work for my sunday night shift feeling super exhausted and a little achy. After some more sleep feeling better.

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Just a quick PSA, side-effects from vaccines of any sort are not uncommon. They can range in severity from barely noticeable to life-threatening, but the actual effect depends very much on the recipient’s biology.

There are at least 3 ways that a vaccine will generate side-effects:

  1. You have a direct reaction to the stuff that gets injected with the vaccine. For example, my doctor has always warned me against getting flu shots because I have a slight egg allergy (flu vaccines often use an egg protein as a “carrier”). This year, I made an exception - and it ended up feeling just like I’d eaten too many eggs.

  2. Your immune system is responding to the vaccine. This usually feels like a cold or flu, but without the coughing or sneezing. Headaches, aches and pains, exhaustion or tiredness, even fever are all side-effects of your immune system doing its job, and some vaccines will have a greater or lesser effect. If a second dose makes you feel worse than the first dose, this may be what you’re going through. The first dose “primes the pump,” so to speak, and the second dose activates your immune system more fully, so you get a sort of one-two punch. Occasionally this can result in a cytokine storm, where the immune system over-reacts in a very bad way, but usually you just feel achey and tired (if you feel anything at all).

  3. The vaccine kicks off an auto-immune response. The immune system isn’t perfect - sometimes it can attack your own cells in addition to (or instead of) the infection. This gets a bit complicated, and has to do with antibodies and signaling systems that don’t differentiate between two or more potential targets. This is also where it gets dangerous. If you’ve heard of people getting temporarily paralyzed or suffering long-term effects after vaccination, this may be what happened to them. This seems to be extremely rare. Unfortunately, it’s also very difficult to predict.

Disclaimer - I’m not in any sort of medical profession. I worked in an antibody lab for years, and picked up a lot of this just by being around immunologists. The rest I filled in with textbooks, PubMed searches, and even Wikipedia when I had key words to work with.

I encourage people to do their own research when they can. Just remember that the best sources are usually those that keep a neutral tone, cite sources, and don’t profit directly from internet traffic.

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Thank you for the PSA and the way I feel I for sure was in number 2 of your post

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I wasn’t excited about it. But got both of mine already done.

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Just to make sure I understand - if a patient got COVID, recovered, but continued to test positive, say, weekly for 3 months, that was reported as 12 new cases?

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I can’t get until late summer at best.

cries in being under 16

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Everyone that I know has the shot and is back to normal. No worries. No drama.

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Get your vaccine and still wear a mask. What’s the point of getting a vaccine if you can’t go back to normal?

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Just received my first Moderna shot and only had mild side effects (sore arm, tingling, fatigue). Good to get it on a Friday so you can recover over the weekend.

It was great to see so many people lined up to get vaccinated. Our local hospital ran it all very smoothly.

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When we get to global herd immunity we can throw the masks away. Until then, wearing a mask can insure that you are not spreading it to others even though you are immune. Better to err on the side of caution.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html

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TX and FL has no mask mandate and they are doing very well keeping virus under control. this prove this pandemic is about over. but you keep telling us we have to mask up even you get the vaccine, most of people would not get the vaccine because why bother, we can’t go see my grandparents or do anything normal. Others would end up ignoring the guideline because most of us feel this nothing but a power grab and controlling people choice. I recall last year when BLM riot started that WHO did say if you go out and protest, you won’t get the virus, that when I been start questioning about this pandemic.

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I agree with what you said. its crazy. get the shot keep wearing your mask still. wtf???

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I see what’s going on here. Dr Fauci is a political hack who keeps flip flopping about covid. Biden administration is spending money like crazy because hey don’t let a good crisis go to waste which btw hyperinflation is coming and its not going be pretty. Teachers here in US doesn’t want go back to school they sit in their home doing nothing and get paid meanwhile other countries had their school open up and kids are in school. Thanks to covid stimulus checks, most of people here in US doesn’t wanted go back to work because they make more money by staying home and just rely on the government to keep giving them stimulus checks. Its time for us to go back to normal, TX and FL proves that we can go back to normal.

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The guy who invented the PCR test basically calls Fauci an idiot.

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I believe Kary Mullis invented the PCR test, is that who you are talking about or is it someone else?

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I looked him up, he seems to be some sort of evil genius.

However, he was an aids denialist.

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Maybe some of the chatter could be moved to a, Why We Hate Masks and Democrats thread.

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You can tell they want this pandemic to continue