• BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 month ago

      I still mask everywhere and will have my ninth vaccine next month. I’ve been lucky to only have one mild case that was basically a stuffy nose. I feel very fortunate, and I take it really seriously.

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        The only 2 things I’ve had that were worse than the last time I had COVID:

        • Pneumonia when I was 15, so sick I had to be carried to the washroom.
        • Whooping cough earlier this year, coughing so much I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t walk more than 3 or 4 meters in a go
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          I had the real influenza which was a bit worse, but I wasn’t vaccinated 3 times against that. Covid gave me over 6 months of loss of smell, that was terrible.

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            If you have easy access to a booster… fuckin do it!
            I was sick as a dog for 3 weeks, started being symptomatic late Feb, was well enough to work again by mid March…had a persistent cough until early June, and due to health monitoring at work my lung capacity and strength has been verified as having gone down about 5%. It’s almost October and I still have a bit of a cough, not all the time like right after the worst of it, but if it’s cold, or humid, or I’ve been lying down for a few hours(say around 2am)…

            Anyway, definitely get a booster if you can.

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              I’ll ask my GP. I do not fool around with getting vaccines as needed, that’s for sure. I just don’t know what the policy is.

              Would I be a bad person if I fibbed to public health to get an Mpox vaccine by telling them I have multiple sex partners? I don’t but I would like one because it’s spread by touch.