re: Covid shot percentages - Economist Poll

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, I doubt I will be getting any more boosters from Pfizer.

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Yeah, I didn't do any boosters. They pushed them on me bigtime before finding out they were worthless with my condition. Had no interest in booster shots.

You have to think that there are quite a few people out there that wouldn't typically get a shot, but did because it was required for some specific reason.

I never even entertained the idea of getting it until I found out I might not be able to be present at the birth of my daughter. They literally just came out for "regular" people so wasn't even any talk of "breakthrough" cases yet. Wasn't gambling on not being at the hospital for that. Hindsight, it's not like that did anything for me and all I did was take a risk.

I can imagine there are quite a few other scenarios where people got pressured when they typically wouldn't

It is probably around 35% purebloods. I would guess a little over 40% with one shot or less and a little over 50% without the booster.

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There is likely less than 1% of Americans that are pure bloods.

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Pureblood in the sense of not getting the shot.

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If he didn’t suffer any negative effects is his remorse strictly based on politics?

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My remorse isn’t so much about politics but more about questioning the efficacy of the vaccine considering any risks. I got covid last Monday, and a week later, I still feel like shite. What did the vaccine and booster do for me?

The booster certainly knocked me on my arse for 24 hours.

And now I’m struggling to get out of bed after still getting covid despite three injections.

So I don’t know. Are the risks of the vaccine real? Did it actually help me? I have no idea. This all sucks. Thanks, China.

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But I really don’t know if the J&J was any safer in the long run, or perhaps it was worse.

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J&J was definitely worse. It was erroneously billed as a “traditional vaccine”, which it was not. Its technology has only been used previously in the Ebola vaccine in 2017. It was built on the same technology as the AstraZenica vaccine that was pulled for causing clots just a few weeks before the J&J shot suffered the same fate. Granted, the incidence rate at the time it was pulled was a total of six people, but most docs I know who were pro-vaccine were reluctant, if not entirely unwilling, to recommend anyone taking it. And since it’s approval, it has had little to no support or guidance regarding boosters or updates to its formulation. This is all in addition to the fact that it was less than 70% efficacious right out of the gate.

That said, if you took it and you didn’t have issues, you’re fine.

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I got covid last Monday, and a week later, I still feel like shite. What did the vaccine and booster do for me? The booster certainly knocked me on my arse for 24 hours. And now I’m struggling to get out of bed after still getting covid despite three injections.

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Everybody is different. What is circulating now isn’t remotely close to the what you were vaccinated for, relatively speaking. My two youngest kids got it in late January. One had cold symptoms, the other we wouldn’t have known she had it except we knew the little one did and had to test her before going to volleyball practice. None of us isolated from them. The little one slept in the same bed with my wife for the duration of his 10-day isolation period, crawling all over her, coughing on her, etc., etc. She never got it. I never got it. My in-laws, who picked them up from school and rode around in the car with them for several days and whom they stayed with for several hours each day at their house before we knew they had it…..also never got it. My oldest son never got it. All those exposed and who never got it were vaccinated and had a booster. My spike protein antibody levels were still over 11,000/ml of blood when I had them checked in late June.

Fast forward to last week, my wife and I finally got it, but none of the kids did. Again, wouldn’t have known except she sounded really stuffy two Fridays ago and I decided to test her for the giggles, expecting she had a normal cold (we’d already had a cold run through the house that week with the kids and one had strep, so we assumed we got one of those things, too). She was positive. Tested me once that came back and so was I. She went to work and just isolated with paperwork (she’s in the medical field). I mowed the grass and spent the afternoon weedeating since we’ve got an immunocompromised employee in the office and my boss didn’t want to take chances. I had a pretty bad headache and a 100.0 “fever” for a few hours on the Tuesday prior and that was all there was to speak of. By the time I tested and realized I had it, I was fine. It’s all anecdotal.

Put me in the 30%

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Scruffy is amazed at the number of people who have had it more than once.

Been around 100s of kids who have had it over 2.5 years and only had it in Sept of 2020.

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I went 2 years without getting it and then got it twice in a 6 month span