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I finally bit the bullet and got the first dose of Moderna Covid vaccine today. I asked the guy how long these vaccines will protect me and he said after the 2nd dose I should be protected for 4-6 months.
What!!??? That's it? 
So, I doubt herd immunity will ever be reached by way of vaccines. It's hard enough to get people to vaccinate but now you want them to do it every 4-6 months? It doesn't feel like it's ever going to happen.
I'm not sure it's even worth me getting the second dose now. If I do get Covid, it's unlikely to be bad.
And he said natural immunities from getting Covid only last 3-4 months. Crazy.
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SeeSharp2 wrote: If I do get Covid, it's unlikely to be bad.
What makes you think that? My perception (and I may be wrong) is that there seems to be no way to predict if a particular person's response to Covid will be marginal or fatal. (Other than those with significant pre-existing conditions, especially those with respiratory conditions). Last week I met two friends I've not seen for a couple of years. One is 78, and has not been in great health for many years. He had Covid 18 months ago, and had a couple of short spells in hospital over a four week period. After that he's been absolutely fine. The other is a 19-year old student, physically (and mentally) fit. He had Covid 18 months ago. He wasn't hospitalised, but remains unwell and had to drop out of Uni studies for a year. He gets out of breath walking up a slight incline, and some days cannot get out of bed. He's hoping to resume studies remotely this year but isn't too optimistic about being able to do so.
If you're an average, "healthy" adult it seems to be virtually random whether you feel slightly under the weather for a couple of days, have a severe illness, suffer ongoing symptoms for months, or die.
The more time goes on and the fewer non-vaccinated people there are, the more stories we see in the (UK) press about people dying of Covid and, from their deathbed, urging "non-believers" to get vaccinated.
I for one don't see it as a waste of time getting a shot once every 6 months if it may keep me from a fatal disease. It's a bit like saying "What?! I have to use my seatbelt for every car trip?!"
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DerekT-P wrote: It's a bit like saying "What?! I have to use my seatbelt for every car trip?!"
Nailed it. 
M.D.V. 
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DerekT-P wrote: What makes you think that?
Very few people that I have seen get Covid (which is a lot) have had anything severe. In fact, I think covid already went through our family but we weren't tested.
DerekT-P wrote: If you're an average, "healthy" adult it seems to be virtually random
That has not been my experience but your point is valid.
DerekT-P wrote: It's a bit like saying "What?! I have to use my seatbelt for every car trip?!"
Not quite. We don't inject ourselves with something that could kill us or make us sick when we put on a seatbelt. A seat belt is a passive aid, whereas the vaccine is an active one with potential negative consequences.
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SeeSharp2 wrote: should be protected for 4-6 months.
SeeSharp2 wrote: If I do get Covid, it's unlikely to be bad.
Just get the second dose and any boosters. It's the correct thing to do!
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Slacker007 wrote: Just get the second dose and any boosters. It's the correct thing to do!
Is it? Maybe. Why? (In your opinion)
I never have gotten the seasonal flu virus and when he told me how long this stuff lasts, I thought of the regular flu.
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Every report I have seen from folks that got Covid, the effects were serious, and the lingering effects were very serious in those that survived. To a person, they all said on camera, they wished they would have gotten the shots.
Additionally, the chance of contraction and spreading Covid to others, were greatly reduced after having the shots.
Finally, wear a mask any time you are in contact with other people. Is that "passive" enough for you?
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Quote: To a person, they all said on camera, they wished they would have gotten the shots.
Selective interviewing by the merchants of doom porn. It's certainly serious for some, but not for most, and many are asymptomatic. But those in the latter categories make for boring fare.
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Nobody has enough data yet to say what the protection period is: the first jabs were only administered in December last year! And the same goes for "natural immunity" - we don't have sufficient data yet to say what to expect.
Remember, none of the jabs are 100% effective, and they all need a 2nd jab booster to reach their maximum effectiveness.
Your "good reaction" / "oh my gawd, get an ambulance!" is uncertain - a lot of the data is indicating that the Delta variant is hitting the young hard when they get it, harder than it hits the elderly, so it's going to depend on which version(s) you might come in contact with.
You've had the first, get the second.
I can tell you from personal experience that you don't want this, and that you really don't want to give it to your loved ones. As I sit here, Herself has just turned on her oxygen machine on so it sounds like the road is being dug up outside - and that's because Covid hit her lungs really badly. And she wasn't hit badly enough to need hospital when she got it ... and gave it to me ...
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The idea of herd immunity or natural immunity is a farce, IMHO.
I never in my entire life heard of someone being immune to the flu or the common cold. How in hell can one be immune to COVID and its future variants?
It boggles my simple mind. 
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It's amazing that herd immunity is accepted throughout the medical community, except for this single virus.
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I wouldn't say that is only this virus.
Look at rubeola, theoretically was beaten down due to herd inmunity in europe, many kids were not being vaccunated anymore because of herd inmunity won the game...
Migration crisis in 2015... some isolated cases of kids bringing it = a lot of hotspots, up to the point of making the vaccine mandatory for all kids if you want them to put a foot in a school.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Herd immunity is very much a thing, but it can only work against specific (or similar) strains.
Hence, the flu virus has thousands of variants, and they select which they think are going to be most prevalent/dangerous in society for a particular year and vaccinate against those each year.
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Hope you both get well soon
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OriginalGriff wrote: the Delta variant is hitting the young hard when they get it
I have heard the death rate of the young is somewhere around .01% or something like that.
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The correlation between mortality and age is extreme for this decease.
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Long covid (trouble breathing, brain fog, loss of sense of smell, etc) happens in 10-30% of people who get it, and doesn't require you to be sick enough to be hospitalized - and thus is much less picky about only screwing up the rest of your life just because you're young and healthy.
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I am deeply sorry for you and your wife. 
Zaphod
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I have no idea where he got the 4-6 months BS. He's also full of it on "natural immunity". No one has spent the time and effort to determine the length of time the immunity lasts if you've actually had this virus in your system.
He's also not telling you that it's estimated that over two-thirds of the human race is naturally immune in that their immune systems deal with this virus without assistance.
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So, where did this bit of data originate?
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Stupid newspapers.
When scientists write their papers on clinical studies, they write that the people in the study has retained their antibodies for four months.
Newspapers then scream, "Antibodies last only four months!!!"
They have learned now though, in last paper I read they wrote that people in their trial retained their antibodies at least six months.
But the damage is already done I'm afraid.
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It's probably factually true for what they know.
In another year they might be able to say it's good for 16-18 months, and a year after that for 28-30 months etc.
How will they really know until Covid's been around long enough.
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a combination of ignorance (we don't have data past about half a year on how long protection will last over time), and being confused about anti-body levels (which always decline steadily over time) vs overall immune response (which long term is based on immune cells 'remembering' something as a threat) that's much harder to quantify in the lab.
The US Govt's in the process of recommending a booster shot after 8 months (starting next month) based on a combination of indications that protection might be starting to fall off by then or that a longer interval between first and 2nd doses gives stronger protection (the Israel vs UK data for break-through infections with delta fits both theories). For the broader population (vs those in high risk groups) that might be premature; and from a global public health standpoint almost certainly is: Until protection tends much closer to zero, getting initial doses to people who haven't had anything yet will reduce the global case rate and thus the likely rate of new variants evolving more than minimizing risks in the rich world even more. But what else is new...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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If you look at the COVID Live Update: 209,172,688 Cases and 4,391,012 Deaths from the Coronavirus - Worldometer[^] you will notice that the US is the leader, I wonder why?
We do not have the highest population.
We have excellent health care.
We are better fed then most.
We have access to the most advanced drugs.
Could it be because;
We don't want to be herded and forced to get a vaccine?
As some I know profess; I've done my research and masks are not effective?
I'm not a sheeple, I'm going to go on as if nothing is the matter?
Everybody else is wearing a mask so I don't have to, I'm protected?
Get the damn shot.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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SeeSharp2 wrote: And he said natural immunities from getting Covid only last 3-4 months. Crazy.
Sigh! 
Natural immunity is when you can't be infected with viruses whose normal host is a cactus. That happens for example when your cells receptors are incompatible with the virus.
Normally you retain antibodies for up to 18 months. You can't keep antibodies against every disease you have been exposed to during your life, your blood would get to thick.
Therefore we have something really nifty called "memory B-cells" that remembers the decease and will start mass producing antibodies next time you get infected. These B-cells normally functions for approx 20years, or up to a lifetime for certain deceases.
There is no reason to believe this will work differently for Covid. No matter what you read in some newspapers.
When you're freshly jabbed or really recently have been sick, many people will have so many antibodies that you will have so called sterilising immunity. You won't notice you got infected and also probably aren't infections.
Later you will get sick, but your immune system (memory cells) will recognize it immediately and start killing it off before you get badly sick. It will be more like a cold.
When you get old, the immune system will not work as well as it used to, just like the rest of your body  , and you might need booster shots.
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