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Comment by craftkiller

3 days ago

> Fully vaccinated

How long ago? Covid vaccine efficacy drops significantly over time so if you haven't had a booster recently, you are not vaccinated: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/why-pro...

Which that reminds me, I should schedule a booster since I'll be attending a party and a wedding soon.

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autoexec  3 days ago

If it's been a while you lose the active antibodies, but your immune system still knows whats up and can generate them when exposed. If you're lucky they do it fast enough that the virus doesn't get time to gain a foothold and you never experience a symptom. More likely though you get sick, but your body has a head start fighting off the infection so you don't get as sick. That's why the vaccines help people from severe illness even after a few months.

The bad news is that there are strains out there now that are different enough that even our trained immune systems won't recognize them. That's why it's good to get a booster when updated vaccines become available.

Geonode  3 days ago

People are still doing this. Unreal.

  • array_key_first  3 days ago

    People have been getting flu shots yearly for decades at this point. There's this weird delusion or socially-induced amnesia that comes with COVID.

    I got COVID maybe a year ago, and I stayed home from work for a week. One of my friends couldn't believe it. He said "wow you're really gonna stay home for an entire week just because you have COVID?"

    Uh... yes? Isn't that how we have always done things? If you're sick, you don't go to work because you'll get others sick. I recall being a kid and getting strep and flu many times and yup - the school nurse would send me home.

    But something about the political environment around COVID has caused people to refuse to believe things that they know to be true. It's fascinating.

    • cosmic_cheese  3 days ago

      Yeah if I’m sick, I’m gonna stay home if I can help it. Doesn’t matter what is is or how innocuous I think it may be, what gives me the right to spread it around and multiply the misery?