I’ve had all the vaccines/boosters. I’m debating whether to take the new one in the fall. However, I know quite a few people who experienced adverse reactions to the vaccine. I still feel like the gov/FDA/CDC were not completely honest with the public about the vaccine’s possible adverse effects, partly because they didn’t have enough time to thoroughly test/research the vaccine and partly because they wanted everyone to take it and any hint of concern would have made it potentially more controversial. I was just commenting to a friend about all the recent adverse cardiac events with young male athletes….could it be vaccine related. We don’t know what we don’t know.
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Nope because COVID was much more virulent back then. And for the record my priority was and still is not getting COVID. I still mask in airports and on airplanes. Rarely eat indoors, or go to the movies (seen 2 movies in the theater since 2020), no concerts, no indoor gyms.
I want to believe that the vaccines are safe and without possible long term side effects…especially for my kids. I take comfort that millions have been vaccinated and adverse effects seem to affect a relatively small percentage but it remains a small doubt in the back of my mind.
Or perhaps the young male athletes had covid, didn’t know it, and their cardiac issues are from that.
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If your priority is not avoiding covid, then why do you take these measures?
My priority IS avoiding COVID.
Sorry – I went back and reread. TENECY (Too Early Not Enough Coffee Yet)
I read of people who only do precautions because they have someone else that they want to protect, and I wondered if that was you. That never made sense to me – why wouldn’t they want to avoid covid for themselves? Then again, they are probably the ones who don’t read too much and think that covid only adversely affects a certain subset of the population.
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I know some people who got COVID-19, and a lot of people who got various COVID-19 vaccines. I know people who had adverse reactions to COVID-19 (including apparently permanent long COVID) and do not know anyone who had anything more than the sore arm or a day of not feeling great after any vaccine.
How many of these speculated relationships to vaccination are unfounded conspiracy theories? In any case, athletic training sometimes triggers adverse events due to previously undiagnosed issues like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that is completely unrelated to COVID-19 or vaccination, and has been known before COVID-19.
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I’m not sure if this news was shared in this thread. I only post it because I saw a lot of speculation that the cardiac event might have been a result of Covid vaccination.
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EVERY EVERY EVERY time there is a newsworthy death or illness, social media gets filled with unfounded claims that the COVID vaccine (not COVID itself) caused the incident.
Pilot has a heart attack? Must be the vaccine
Actor has a heart attack? Must be the vaccine
99 year old game show host dies? Must be the vaccine
Blah blah blah blah blah
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I don’t think it was on this thread, I talked about it on this site somewhere.
I have a dear friend. She’s overweight, smoked until recently, doesn’t exercise, drinks cocktails every night and has RA that she has been treating with methotrexate for over 20 years.
She recently had two pretty serious heart attacks.
She told me that she’s convinced it was because of her Covid vaccinations. 
She’s not going to get anymore boosters.
I’m not convinced.
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Interesting.
One of my (fully vaccinated) college students is out there living their best life and hasn’t tested positive for COVID. They go to classes, parties, concerts, sporting events, etc. all unmasked. This summer, they took international and cross country flights unmasked. My student receives regular emails about possible exposures. For over a year, the school was testing frequently. Now my student does it on their own, after flying or attending large events. I doubt they had an asymptomatic case.
My LEO son transported Covid patients as an EMT all through the entire pandemic, start to finish. He was routinely decontaminated a couple of times per shift. He received the first vaccine long before most people. He’s lived an active, pre-2020 type lifestyle since 2021. He’s never been diagnosed with Covid.
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My best friend works in an ER and did all through Covid, initially without masks. Never had it. My 78yr old father has been traveling around the world pretty much since late 2020. No Covid.
I’ve had it twice!
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D1 just tested positive for Covid today 8 days after starting the new school year with kids in her classroom. She said the line was faint and she feels like she has a head cold. The school principal told her to stay home today. I don’t know if she goes back tomorrow masked or if she stays home the rest of the week. Many schools don’t have Covid protocols any longer.
They should be following county, state or federal guidelines.
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I agree with that, but I don’t think it is actually happening. Two of my friends here at work said that for their children (in different schools here in Southern California) they are to stay home if they are feeling sick. That’s it. No testing required. This came from their schools principals at orientation for the new school year.
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This is the guidance at our school as well (Washington State).
That’s apparently the case here, too. Covid is just like every other illness – return to school as long as no fever. No testing, no masking, no school being closed unless there isn’t enough staff to keep it open.
Although places should be following CDC guidelines, they are just that – guidelines which can be and are ignored.
Same with our schools. Basically, don’t ask, don’t tell. Just keep going.