• BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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    I feel like I have a little extra right to be pissed off about this. I volunteered to be part of the first round of trials for the vaccine because I needed to feel like I was doing something to help. I literally risked my life to help develop this safe vaccine and now so many people are throwing that away.

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      Thank you for what you did. It was brave.

      I took the vaccine 2 times as soon as it was available and then on the third round I had a severe adverse reaction and was in the hospital for a few days with myocarditis.

      I had family members face time me and say “ I told you it was dangerous, now look where you are “

      I still encourage people to take the vaccine. I believe my reaction was because I got the flu shot and covid vaccine in the same day.

      I still have not had Covid. A few doctors have told me that if I were to get it I’d probably die because of how severe my reaction was to the vaccine. Each time I had it, I had severe pain in my left arm and weird sensations. Then the third time it got me.

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        Both my second and third shot had me sick as fuck for 6 hours, then suddenly just vanished. I later got covid and could barely move for a week. I’m really not sure I would’ve survived covid if I hadn’t had the shots.

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      Thanks for your service! Hope it went fine for you. First round of human trials can often be…rough.

      I was not offered to participate in trials, but was among the first to vaccinate in the general population. Took my first shot at like the second day the vaccine got available. Thought of it then as a massive victory for humanity. Apparently, stupidity can absolutely overpower the most brilliant of minds.

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        stupidity can absolutely overpower the most brilliant of minds.

        happens every time theres a global pandemic. exact same stupid shit happened with the spanish flu epidemic 100 years ago.

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          Remember, the smallpox vaccine will make you part cow, because it’s made from cow pox…

          That one was closer to two hundred years ago. People just stay dumb.

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      I work for this lady sometimes who has long covid. She has trouble getting upstairs without taking a break. She refused to take the vaccine, still does, and still calls it a hoax. Not taking the vaccine is the biggest win in her life. At least that’s what it feels like when she talks to me. And that is still pretty much the only thing she talks to me about.

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      Loud idiots, the lot of them. They’re even profiting off you and everyone who got vaccinated and they’ll never believe it. But such is survivorship bias. One of the reasons we can’t have nice things.

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      I wasn’t part of the trials, but I was probably one of the first hundred or so people in my county vaccinated. I work in our 911 dispatch center and they were able to secure the vaccine for us and other essential first responder type roles, and I remember a lot of my doctor friends were still trying to figure out where they could get the vaccine at the time.

      I worked nights at the time, went to the vaccine clinic after my shift. I remember they made us sit around for like 20 minutes to make sure we didn’t have any kind of immediate adverse reaction, no one did and I went home and went to bed. I woke up feeling fine, then a couple hours later I had some fatigue and chills and I ended up crashing early. Woke up feeling fine, and the only side effect from subsequent doses was that my arm was sore for a few days.

      I figure if I worked a normal day shift schedule, and still got the vaccine in the morning the side effects probably would have hit me about when I was going to sleep anyway and I would have slept through them.

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      And just so we are all clear: were there any noticeable side effects?

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        No, and I got COVID multiple times via family, including losing small for a time. I suspect the lack of vaccine side effects was itself a clue that it didn’t activate anything in my particular immune system. I was doing everything I was supposed to do. Vaccine, boosters, N95 masks, social distancing, not eating out, no haircuts, only really shopping at the grocery store, etc. All that obviously worked for others, and I’m glad, but didn’t work for me.

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          When it happened, my mum kept telling me about how she had heard of all these cases of people dying after taking the vaccine as a way to scare me from taking it. I had to keep telling her that there would be 100 times more people that could potentially die from my choice to not take it, especially if I was an asymptomatic carrier.

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            She wasn’t wrong; people were dying after taking the vaccine. But that’s not because the vaccine killed them, it just wasn’t able to help them. Also at the time it was infuriating. Most people seemed to have about a week’s attention span where they followed guidelines, but after two weeks they no longer cared and COVID was “over”. They didn’t want to hear that this could take years, because they wanted to party and their motivated reasoning kicked in. Lost a lot of faith in humanity.