I think we will wait until fall for the second booster.
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I think we will wait until fall for the second booster.
Looks like we're in the same boat. Got a call from Walgreens yesterday saying their shipment didn't arrive and they don't know for sure when the next one is supposed to show up.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
For all you who keep getting boosted multiple times per year, do you plan to do this forever, or are you at all concerned about T cell exhaustion?
How do you know that T cell exhaustion is a real thing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
Because many scientists have investigated the phenomenon including immunologists and coined the term.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
If it was a thing how do you know your not more likely to get it from getting the virus repeatedly. I'll wait ...
Either or.Quote:
Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore
But natural immunity is broader based, it's not just based on one spike protein. So you're less likely to get it again.
All the high profile people getting covid now, like Nancy Pelosi, are vaxxed and boosted.
I thought the whole point of having a healthy immune system was to meet repeated bacterial and viral challenges. Mine has probably checked out due to lack of use.
Some of the high profile people are on their SECOND ROUND of the virus in addition to being vaxed and boosted. Biden's press secretary. But it may have been a different variant? Well yes probably was in that case. But she has had covid twice already.
From the article: "While use of additional boosters can be part of contingency plans, repeated vaccinations within short intervals would not represent a sustainable long-term strategy," Cavaleri said at a media briefing. He also said boosters "can be done once, or maybe twice, but it’s not something that we can think should be repeated constantly."
I plan to get a second J&J, but after that, I don't know. I'm more likely to avoid crowds, wear my mask, wash my hands frequently, that kind of thing.
I'm thinking to wait until the fall unless situations change. Being in a higher risk age group I'd like to weigh what our government's scientists are saying, but just haven't heard. I don't know why any booster time interval should be magic, whether it's 6 months, a year, or longer I assume the immune system follows the same rules for any potential over exposure to a vaccine and it's something they may not know until field trials are done. I guess I just need more information. I've depended on This Week in Virology podcast for some good information, but haven't checked in lately.
I suspect by fall it could include some sort of latest variant protection or be in combo with the flu shot.
Well, you could look at Twitter for breathless out-of-context hand-wringing, or...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-022-01184-4
I thought the CDC said oldsters like me may get 4th shot i.e. 2nd booster 4 or 5 months after last booster. That is “may” but I doni’t consider that a “should” yet.
We can keep boosting our way to T cell exhaustion, and covid will keep mutating in the parts of the world where people can't get vaccines thanks to Bill Gates:
https://newrepublic.com/article/1620...covid-vaccines
Where are all the dead people?
The Chair of my Board of Health said despite vaccine hesitancy we would get to an 80% vax rate because all the unvaxxed people would eventually die of covid.
Where are all the bodies? Is there a big cover up?
Russell Brand just put out a fabulous video on some of the questions that are being asked here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXgf7xwu8ws
He’s such a maniac! I mean that in a positive way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
He says that the campaign against disinformation is being used as a tool for censorship and he’s exactly right.
Yes, I agree with you completely.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
I understood enough of that to be helpful. Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by bae
You didn't tell us that you went to LA to stage a protest a few months ago!Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
https://www.newsweek.com/homeless-va...ngeles-1636119
so Joe Rogan is right. “Anti-Vaxers” is now applied to people who are not in favor of government mandates for COVID vaccines even though they are perfectly ok with getting a Covid vaccine for themselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
i thought Rogan was over stating this.
I didn’t think I knew anyone who was twisting the original pop culture meaning and assigning that false meaning to it. Guess I do, and it is jp.
I think you may be over analyzing here. I just thought it amusing that yppej was using the same absurd ‘where are the dead bodies?????’ Question as the idiot in the video. I try to encourage her when she makes the effort to be more creative than her boring ‘fauci is evil incarnate’ posts.
How much of a saint is Fauci? A Catholic college (Holy Cross) is now naming a science building after him.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
I can understand that, I try to do the same with you when you go off on one of your 'Republicans suck' tangents.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
Well, since the Republican Party has turned to baselessly smearing all democrats as pedophiles and groomers as their main election strategy it’s hard for a rational person not to conclude that they are just a bunch of really shitty assholes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
Ha, you never disappoint JP, never.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
Not even close to the main election strategy. To quote a Democrat, "It's the economy stupid".Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
That’s the secondary strategy. One strategy for the 40% of republicans who are stupid enough to believe Qanon. Another for reasonably intelligent but not particularly alert folks who are pissed off about gas prices. To paraphrase trump ‘republicans love the stupid ****s’.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
So you don’t there’s a ‘there’ there when the Republican senators made 165 references to pedophilia and child porn during the recent Supreme Court nominee’s hearing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
You also never cease to disappoint me with your obtusity to all things that republicans do. The day you admit that a straight white Republican male has done something wrong will be the day I drop dead from shock.
I have covid. I'm double vaccinated and had gotten my second booster two weeks ago. I knew right away for some reason. It felt different than a normal cold. Home test kit was positive so I went to the pharmacy and verified it with a PCR.
I was well enough every day to shower and dress and be up and about my Isolation area of the house. More tired and cold and cough and surprisingly very delicate stomach. I started walking outside yesterday through my development but stay far away from people if I see anyone. I did not see one person walking last evening and I'm headed out as soon as the sun rises I'll test in a few days as I'm probably negative now. but to be ultra cautious I will continue to avoid human contact for a while.
My vaccinated grandkids had visited which is the most like!y place I got it and my DIL felt awful but I told her I refuse to spend the rest of my life locked in a closet. Every second with my grandkids was worth it to me.
I'm sorry to hear that Flowers and hope you are better soon.
Glad it didn’t make you really sick flowers.
Thank you Rosa and Terry. I’m very thankful DH didn’t get it as he is immunosuppressed. I was hesitant to post here as politics and nasty comments seem to be ruling the day in the health forum, but it is important for people to know it can still infect you and make you sick.
Take care of yourself, and give yourself time to recover!
Flowers, so sorry to hear you got the plague. Get well soon!
Flowers, I am so sorry you were sick, and hoping you feel better and better as spring arrives.
So sorry to hear Flowers! Recover quickly!
This is a good example of why restrictions based on case counts are completely irrelevant now and we should be looking at hospitalizations.Quote:
Originally Posted by flowerseverywhere
It doesn't sound like you reported your case to any health authority, or received any quarantine guidance. You're handling it on your own. That's not a criticism by the way - that's how I think it should be.
Feel better soon.
I'm glad you're feeling better.
I have (vaccinated, boosted) friends who may have had it some weeks ago with digestive issues.