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I think vaccinations and boosters reduced duration of illness when I got covid for the first time last year. I have no way to know though.

I think it's weird to advocate skipping shots (not explicitly, but implied) because "everyone's already been infected several times". Best to just get them even if you've been infected and then you don't have to care if they help or not. As opposed to not having gotten them if it comes out that they do help in any way.

Also that was the only time I've ever gotten sick from covid. I guess that according to you, I must've been asymptomatic several more times.

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This is wildly off topic, but again, since you didn’t read it: there is no good evidence that the shots help you if you’ve already been infected. Not mortality, not symptoms, not transmission, nothing.

Get the shot if it makes you feel less anxious. It’s probably not helping you, but it’s not hurting you either.

> since you didn’t read it

I read your entire comment. I finished my reply before you made a couple of your latest edits, but I read those too and they don't change my answers. I feel like the assumption of bad faith here makes further debate fruitless.

In fact my second paragraph was directly addressing the claim that they don't help, so it's surprising you would so confidently assert I didn't read that part at all.

There’s nothing in bad faith here. I’m telling you the truth as I know it, based on a wide reading of the literature.

Your second paragraph did not “directly address the claim” - you just restated an opinion that you should do something whether it helps or not.

That’s not how science works, but sure, if you feel that way, it probably doesn’t matter one way oe the other.

My original point was one about social isolation, so I’m really done talking about this now.

It's bad faith to assume someone didn't read your message.

Link your sources then, because I think you're full of shit.

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