So everyone got/getting their Fauci Ouchie? What are your thoughts?

[Wires_Guy_wires]

But just boosting for boosting sake?

Yes, it is in fact boosting for boostings sake.
Omicron is mutated so much that the booster doesn't prevent or cure it, and hardly has any effect apart from numbing down the symptoms a whole lot. But there's still delta raging around which is way more damaging to people's insides. Delta is mutating too, here in Europe and eslewhere.
Omicron is covid extra light, so to speak. Managable. Nothing more than a cold in most cases. But we have the vaccines to ramp up our immune system for whatever else covid related is going around, best to keep it as 'nothing more than a common cold in most cases'. Because when it does hit hard, it hits super hard.

 

[coh]

Yes it does seem a bit strange that the shots are not lasting longer like for example the yearly flu shots. Maybe it’s due to the ridiculous amount of mutations going on? Also I’ve never really had any adverse reactions to any vaccines until these came long.

I don't pretend to know much about immunology (enough to be dangerous, maybe). I do know that for some reason, certain viral infections result in lifetime immunity, but others don't. For instance, you're not likely to get chicken pox more than once (but you might get a pseudo-encore in the form of shingles) but people can be infected by common cold viruses (including some non-covid coronaviruses) multiple times.

One of the problems with the currently available covid vaccines is that they are very specific to the spike protein of the original virus, which is just one part of the virus - it has many other proteins. And the spike is that part that has mutated most extensively, so the relatively narrow immunity produced by the vaccines is not as effective against the new variants. Fortunately it still appears to reduce the risk of serious illness and death. Perhaps even more fortunately, omicron appears to be less severe but it transmits so rapidly that it is having a dramatic impact on health systems even with the decreased severity for most people. I suspect that almost all of us will get it at some point.

Protection from flu shots doesn't last very long either.

Personally, I eventually wound up getting the 2 pfizer shots - one at the end of August and the second just before Thanksgiving. The first shot gave me a sore arm for a day or two. The second shot caused that, along with some body aches and a low fever (peak 100 F) for about a day and a half. My wife has had 3 shots and her reaction was similar.

 

[AlainK]

2 first shots : Astrazeneca, no side efeect except a slightly sore shoulder for 2 days.
3rd shot : moderna : the same.

My mother (91) had 3 shots of Pfizer, the same.

My sister, just recovering from breast cancer, had a little temperature and felt tired for 2-3 days after her 2 first shots of Astrazeneca, no side effect afer her Moderna booster.

 

[Nybonsai12]

Ugh.

I had only one shot of moderna in April of last year. First was sore arm, feeling out of it and then I developed constant high pitched ringing in my ears(tinnutis). Still have it now months later and there is no treatment, just hopes that it will go away.

There are many folks with similar adverse reactions, actually a few thousand in a FB group who had the same reaction as me. Most folks didn’t even report it until they were made aware of VAERS.

I was doing what I felt I needed to do for my personal situation. Lousy situation.

 

[leatherback]

Janssen vaccine with biontech booster. Besides a bit of a dull day, no side effects

 

[Mapleminx]

Janssen vaccine with biontech booster. Besides a bit of a dull day, no side effects

Yoooooou lucky duck!

 

[leatherback]

Yoooooou lucky duck!

Not sure. No response from the body might mean less of a immunity buildup

 

[Lutonian]

I have had

1st jab: AstraZeneca, slight flu like symptoms for 2 days

2nd jab: AstraZeneca, slight malaise 1 day

3rd jab Pfizer, felt fine no symptoms

 

[Mayank]

I am wondering about these booster shots. Most vaccins I have had in my life were, after a second or thirs short, valid for a decade or more. Getting a booster for a different variety of the virus makes sense. But just boosting for boosting sake? Not a virologist, but it seems like this virus is treated a bit different from others.

Just waiting for the moment we can start treating this as "just another resperatory tract infection", and let it do its seasonal thing. The tricky balance between politics, science, hospital loads and public opinion..

Hepatitis has a series also. First one then a second I think in a month and then a "booster" in 6 months and rinse/repeat if you still don't develop adequate immune response. So I guess there may be different factors that may inform their guidelines.

 

[leatherback]

Yes, it is in fact boosting for boostings sake.

Guess what. Just been alerted I need to get boosted again. My initial vaccin was by Johnsson. Meanwhile germany has decided that has no long-term effect. So everyone vaccinated with Johnsson need to get boosted twice.

So.. I am collecting brands

First shot: Johnsson
Booster 1: Biontech
Booster 2: Moderna

In the long run this might be good. Different types of vaccins will all trigger just a slightly different response and thus offer a broader protection? It is what I am telling myself at least.

 

[Rivian]

Does anyone care that the Pfizer CEO just said "2 doses of the vaccine offer very limited protection if any"?

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Guess what. Just been alerted I need to get boosted again. My initial vaccin was by Johnsson. Meanwhile germany has decided that has no long-term effect. So everyone vaccinated with Johnsson need to get boosted twice.

So.. I am collecting brands

First shot: Johnsson
Booster 1: Biontech
Booster 2: Moderna

In the long run this might be good. Different types of vaccins will all trigger just a slightly different response and thus offer a broader protection? It is what I am telling myself at least.

Me too!
I got Moderna and Pfizer. I might get a johnsson too if they're still available.

Maybe try some of that stuff the guys behind the train station are using. They vaccinate daily but the side effects seem to last just a couple hours. They look like they have an immune system that could take down an asteroid.

 

[BrierPatch]

It's all a "Big Pharma" /Govt scam. Prepare for lifetime of shots at a minimum of 1 every year.

Anyways I drank the Koolaid had all 3 Pfizer shots. Also like @Nybonsai12 I still have high pitched ringing in my ears that appeared after the 2nd shot. which was in May. Doc says not related tho, ya hmmm.
Can't wait to get my 4th, it comes with a check for 10 yuan from a govt funded research lab.

 

[leatherback]

It's all a "Big Pharma" /Govt scam.

Lets not kill this thread

 

[Nybonsai12]

It's all a "Big Pharma" /Govt scam. Prepare for lifetime of shots at a minimum of 1 every year.

Anyways I drank the Koolaid had all 3 Pfizer shots. Also like @Nybonsai12 I still have high pitched ringing in my ears that appeared after the 2nd shot. which was in May. Doc says not related tho, ya hmmm.
Can't wait to get my 4th, it comes with a check for 10 yuan from a govt funded research lab.

If you are on Facebook, search for the group tinnitus hearing loss after vaccine. Lots of people with these symptoms post vax in addition to other issues. Plenty of talk on things to try and lessen symptoms etc. they’ve been censored a few times but are back up. Some folks have resolved with time, but not me not yet. Wish I never got it.

remember When they said it came from a pangolin, then bat soup. Then you needed to get vaxxed cuz we have two weeks to flatten the curve. Then you need to get vaxxed to stop the spread and protect grandma. Only to learn the vaxxed still spread it And reports alleged viral loads were the same in both vaxxed and unvaxxed. Then you need to get vaxxed to keep your job. So then some folks get fired and then the short staffed actually get Covid and are forced into caring for the sick. All of it is bonkers.

 

[BrierPatch]

Lets not kill this thread

Sorry, was intended as a joke, kinda. Not some big disinformation campaign. Otherwise I wouldn't be fully vax'd.

Updated notes to myself: Never discuss politics, religion and now vaccines.

 

[Lutonian]

If you are on Facebook, search for the group tinnitus hearing loss after vaccine. Lots of people with these symptoms post vax in addition to other issues. Plenty of talk on things to try and lessen symptoms etc. they’ve been censored a few times but are back up. Some folks have resolved with time, but not me not yet. Wish I never got it.

remember When they said it came from a pangolin, then bat soup. Then you needed to get vaxxed cuz we have two weeks to flatten the curve. Then you need to get vaxxed to stop the spread and protect grandma. Only to learn the vaxxed still spread it And reports alleged viral loads were the same in both vaxxed and unvaxxed. Then you need to get vaxxed to keep your job. So then some folks get fired and then the short staffed actually get Covid and are forced into caring for the sick. All of it is bonkers.

https://www.tinnitus.org.uk/coronav...H4e5NdhxxyN7FGI_-hB8TkbdWgwdr5yoaAs8yEALw_wcB British tinnitus association has some info on covid, covid vaccines and tinnitus.

 

[leatherback]

tinnitus hearing loss after vaccine. Lots of people with these symptoms post vax

Glad I have had tinnitus for a decade already, so I cannot get it from Vax.

 

[Rivian]

Glad I have had tinnitus for a decade already, so I cannot get it from Vax.

It can always get louder

 

[rockm]

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