Marge is having a conspiracyfest today.
Biss, an obstetrician gynecologist, testified that women were especially adversely affected by the vaccines, even if they themselves did not receive it.
“There were definitely changes in women’s menstrual cycles and also in post-menopausal patients,” Biss said. “Not all these women had been vaccinated, but they had been around other people who had been vaccinated, isn’t that interesting?”
That woman would die if not for clicks. I am convinced she is some sort of mutated click-o-vore.
She should refuse all medical care going forward. They’re all in on the conspiracy!
I think I found a doctor for Marge to subpoena.
A 70 year old friend said their heart doctor told them not to get the vaccine because people are having heart attacks from the shot.
Sorry about the Marge stuff but whole else am I going to vent to that understands?
Every time she posts this crap someone reminds her she was in favor of vaccines until she wasn’t.
directly contracts the science
WTF? Saw someone with a mask in the parking lot of the grocery store head in, and take it off as they were going in. Why even bother?
Unrelated:
Seeing an increasing number of kids with long-standing fatigue and school performance decline, many of whom deny having had covid, but their covid titers are very positive. I can’t claim any correlation between height of titer levels and long covid symptoms (sample size way too small), but it does make me wonder.
I believe it. I’ve been struggling with brain fog since I first got Covid last year. I already had some issues with memory and concentration due to my neurospicy brain, but it’s like my ADHD got dialed to 11 by the virus. It sucks.
I did both, that was a rough week afterwards.
A weird thing happened to me. I can’t say for sure if it’s related to my vaccinations or not.
As I mentioned earlier, I got three vaccinations on October 11—the new COVID-19, senior flu, and RSV. I had soreness in both arms, slept more than usual the first night, felt blah and unmotivated the next day, and then back to my usual self on the third day.
Except that—beginning on that third day—I’ve actually felt better than I have in several years!
I was sick in the Fall of 2020, and based on symptoms I think it was likely COVID-19 (I didn’t get tested). And since then I’d felt draggy. But I wasn’t sure if the dragginess actually started with my suspected-COVID-19 illness, or if it was just from old age coming on (I’m 68 now). Anyway, I had come to think that that was just the way life would be from now on. But since getting those three vaccinations last month I’ve had more energy and motivation, and physically I’m not so tired. And even when I’m really short on sleep, I still feel surprisingly good. It’s not like I’m a different person or anything, but everything is easier to do, plus my brain seems more clear.
I’ve read that the virus can linger in the gut, and I can’t help wondering if there was some lingering virus in me that the vaccines kicked my body into finally overcoming. (If so, though, why didn’t my earlier COVID-19 vax/boosters do it? Could it be because this time I had three different kinds of vaccinations all at once, which I don’t recall ever having done before?) Or is it all just a weird coincidence??? I guess I’ll never know, but I’m happy to be feeling better than I was.
Going back a ways, one of the things being thrown around was that folks suffering from long covid seemed to improve following a covid vaccination. Have not seen a lot written about it lately, but it was certainly in the air 2021-22ish.
Our research group has been studying vaccinated older adults in long-term care and retirement homes throughout the pandemic, and our recent findings have jolted us.
We found that those who had battled the BA.1-2 variant of Omicron in early 2022 had a 30-fold higher risk of contracting the BA.5 variant later in the year. That was exactly the opposite of what we, or anyone, would have predicted.
This new knowledge is critically important, not just to other older adults, but to all of us.
Does this surprising twist apply to the broader population? Possibly, but until we know how infections work to increase susceptibility to reinfection, we can’t know if this susceptibility is specific to older adults. Does it apply to other variants, including the newest ones in circulation? That’s unclear.
What the findings do tell us is that older adults who have had a previous COVID-19 infection shouldn’t rely on that to protect them against reinfection this fall. To protect against severe illness, keeping booster shots up to date is recommended. . . . the virus is still developing new ways to elude our immune systems.
Good analysis, but also
Huh? This was already obvious to you?
We found that those who had battled the BA.1-2 variant of Omicron in early 2022 had a 30-fold higher risk of contracting the BA.5 variant later in the year. That was exactly the opposite of what we, or anyone, would have predicted.
Well, obviously.
Somewhat, yes. But the major finding that vaccines had higher protection than prior infection was the generally obvious thing I was commenting on.
The secondary finding shouldn’t surprise anyone who is familiar with coronaviruses. Coronaviruses play a cat-and-mouse game with the immune system. They attack the intracellular mechanisms that act as an early warning system for the immune system first. The virus leaves traps for antibodies tuned to it. It covers its tracks. Responding to coronaviruses is a balancing act for the immune system. Overreaction can be fatal - many fatalities from COVID are due to an overreacting immune system response causing inflammation and clotting. Under-reacting leaves the body susceptible to respiratory failure. So for some people who survive COVID, it makes sense that they would be more susceptible to subsequent infection - they already have established that their immune system doesn’t overreact, doesn’t under-react, but nontheless plays into the standard coronavirus playbook.
