Covid

[walrus]

Huh, they told me 4 weeks. I'll check when I go to the pharmacy later.

They are pushing the shot, Tom! First the opioid crisis, what's next? The shingles shot crisis?!

walrus

 

[JohnW63]

My wife had a strong reaction to the first Shingles shot. When she let the pharmacist know, he recommended she skip the second shot, which is often a stronger reaction than the first. So, she's slightly less protected.

I don't fit any of the check boxes for a COVID booster, so, I'll wait at the back of the line. Maybe they'll have something better by then?

 

[adorshki]

My wife had a strong reaction to the first Shingles shot. When she let the pharmacist know, he recommended she skip the second shot, which is often a stronger reaction than the first. So, she's slightly less protected.

I don't fit any of the check boxes for a COVID booster, so, I'll wait at the back of the line. Maybe they'll have something better by then?

Me too, didn't get my 2nd Pfizer shot until July 30. So hopefully by the time it's needed it'll be a "no hassle getting an appointment" scenario again.

 

[dreadnut]

I had both shingles shots a couple years ago - no adverse effects. Darn sure don't want to get shingles, ask anyone who has had it!

 

[fronobulax]

When I got my shingles shot it was only a one dose shot. My doctor says the two dose shot gives better protection but hasn't given me any concrete advice about when to get the "new" shingles vaccine.

 

[Cougar]

Another good reason to get the Covid vaccine!

Using the UK Biobank of 40,000 people who had prior MRI brain scans, a sample of 785 were scanned again, 401 of whom had caught Covid since their last scan. There was a reduction in brain size and grey matter, attributed to Covid, in those versus the uninfected controls. It also explains the common loss of sense of smell ("...a marker of tissue damage, in the regions of the brain functionally-connected to the piriform cortex, anterior olfactory nucleus and olfactory tubercle...")

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v3

 

[Opsimath]

Another good reason to get the Covid vaccine!

Using the UK Biobank of 40,000 people who had prior MRI brain scans, a sample of 785 were scanned again, 401 of whom had caught Covid since their last scan. There was a reduction in brain size and grey matter, attributed to Covid, in those versus the uninfected controls. It also explains the common loss of sense of smell ("...a marker of tissue damage, in the regions of the brain functionally-connected to the piriform cortex, anterior olfactory nucleus and olfactory tubercle...")

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v3

I'm pretty sure I had COVID in July. Never got tested, never went to the doc but the friend I had visited the week before was hospitalized with it. During the illness I did not lose smell or taste. In fact taste, particularly sweet or salty, was intensified, so hoping my brain didn't shrink.

Would I know it if it did?

If I should start blabbering nonsense, I'm counting on you guys/gals to be kind enough to point it out to me.

Edited to say: It was not apparent that my friend had COVID when I saw her. Her son got sick the next day and she was sick the day after he was. It was a week after seeing them that I wasn't feeling too hot.

 

[Mark WW]

Huh, they told me 4 weeks. I'll check when I go to the pharmacy later.

I was told 4 weeks earlier in the year.

 

[Westerly Wood]

I'm pretty sure I had COVID in July. Never got tested, never went to the doc but the friend I had visited the week before was hospitalized with it. During the illness I did not lose smell or taste. In fact taste, particularly sweet or salty, was intensified, so hoping my brain didn't shrink.

Would I know it if it did?

If I should start blabbering nonsense, I'm counting on you guys/gals to be kind enough to point it out to me.

Yeah, I think this topic should be open to alternate and opposing views. It's a personal decision, responsibility and accountability. Health in general I mean. My goal is not to judge or come down on someone for their decision or thoughts on the matter. I think transparency is key with your friends, and your friends really being those who respect your take and life decisions about Covid, whatever that may be...

 

[dreadnut]

I agree; it is a personal decision.

 

[FNG]

In before the lock! Lol

 

[davismanLV]

Yeah, c'mon Woody. Did you have to go there? Everything was just fine, until.....

 

[GAD]

I think this thread has run its coarse so I'm locking it before it gets worse.

 

[fronobulax]

In before the lock! Lol

Who am I not to comply?

In case it needs to be spelled out the situation in the USA has deteriorated to the point where the reasons for opposing or getting vaccinations are inherently political. Since this is the fourth or fifth lock on a thread attempting to discuss Covid I, at least, am going to be more proactive about any post or thread than mentions the pandemic.

A long time ago there was a Facebook group formed by LTG members who wanted to discuss political topics and other things that weren't appropriate for a guitar forum but were things friends talked about. Perhaps the Facebook haters could hold their nose and talk there or there may be some other platform that is closed enough and polite enough to be comfortable?