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What if you caught covid in the early months of 2020 and have already suffered all of the debilitating long haul effects? Now you are actively living with the new normal that covid has left to your body?

That is where I am right now. My wife is double jabbed and has the worst cough in the world (after a weeks of all of the signs of covid she has tested positive for antibodies) meanwhile I have not even had so much as a sore throat.

I tested positive 15 months ago. Why do I need to be vaccinated?

FWIW I plan on getting the next redesigned booster but for now I see no reason to sign up

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I think it would be reasonable to say ‘up to you’ since your risk to the public is negligible, but first what research have you done? Or are you avoiding decision making? Your risks are decidedly low in either way you decide. But currently, the CDC’s data suggest your net risk would be even lower if you get the currently approved dose, particularly while delta cases are still high and hospitals overwhelmed (e.g. and not procrastinating till it too goes away)

People like you who had a mild case may benefit most from the vaccine, because you may be the least likely to have developed long-lasting antibodies.

You've seen what the virus can do. Why chance it?

I'm sorry to hear about your wife. I hope she gets better.

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/574284-natural-covid-...

A) my case was not mild

B) you may have missed the last line of my comment

C) trying to understand how this extremely contagious virus managed to not infect me while my wife and I shared bathrooms, beds, and car rides together. My best assumption is that I still carry immunity

Yeah, sorry, I misunderstood.

Do you think it's impossible that the virus actually did infect you the second time, just asymptomatically?

Perhaps but that didn’t stop me from isolating. Fwiw, my wife may have been asymptomatic in the past and she figured she was safe to interact in public.

The moral of this story is that vaxxed or not this virus can still spread, so you can only be safe about yourself. Wear a mask, wash your hands.

Good luck!

>trying to understand how this extremely contagious virus managed to not infect me while my wife and I shared bathrooms, beds, and car rides together

There are a lot of things people don't understand, that's why expertise is more valuable than intuition, heuristics, and feels.

Wooosh

I’m surprised you read long haul covid as a mild case. I know someone with natural immunity that did an anti body test out of curiosity and their response was 10x those of typical vaccinated people after a similar half a year exposure. He will get fired if he doesn’t get the vaccine.

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