How Protected Are You Against the Covid Variant JN.1?

[MrSquished]

I gargle with the vaccine every morning. I feel great.

 

[Zorba]

She'll be qualified for this year's booster if she wants a mid-year boost to immunity. Spring time would be halfway to the next booster.

Yeah, she's talked about it, but hasn't done it. She always feels bad from the shots, so it's a little harder to convince her than me.

 

[Zorba]

If those specific countries aren't masking, then I don't feel so bad about Muricans any more.

My wife was in South Korea last fall and said almost no one was wearing a mask. I was there in 2019 and it was probably 10%+ in masks. I was shocked it was that low for her. I even made her take masks because I thought it might still be mandatory some places.

 

[Zorba]

Number of shots depends on manufacturer?

1 Jan 21
2 Feb 21
3 Oct 21
4 May 22
5 Oct 22
6 Jun 23
7 Oct 23
All Moderna

Oh, I've never gotten the spring time ones.

 

[Muse]

She'll be qualified for this year's booster if she wants a mid-year boost to immunity. Spring time would be halfway to the next booster.

So, my last covid vaccination was #7, Oct. 5, 2023, all Moderna except the last (because my HMO didn't have Moderna yet, I got Pfizer). Can I get a shot in the spring?

 

[dullard]

So, my last covid vaccination was #7, Oct. 5, 2023, all Moderna except the last (because my HMO didn't have Moderna yet, I got Pfizer). Can I get a shot in the spring?

I think since you got last fall's booster that you don't qualify until next fall (unless you meet some other criteria).

 

[Muse]

I think since you got last fall's booster that you don't qualify until next fall (unless you meet some other criteria).

I'm hell of healthy but old as the hills. 😆😜 I want to be as protected as possible.

 

[Muse]

I don't go to the comments section "for smarts".

The comments on The New York Times articles, essays and opinion pieces are very often, if not usually, as a whole, much more helpful, illustrative, deep, nuanced and informed than the pieces they accompany.

 

[Muse]

I think since you got last fall's booster that you don't qualify until next fall (unless you meet some other criteria).

As they say, "the squeaky wheel gets the grease." I figure more than a few people have gotten boosters because they were insistent/persistent. These days, though, it might involve $$$. I haven't paid for one yet. However, I might be able to convince my PCP to authorize a shot... Something to keep in mind.

 

[pmv]

Is anyone here as protected as this guy?

‘Hypervaccinated’ man reportedly received 217 Covid jabs without side effects

German man said he had vaccines for ‘private reasons’, but reports say he was selling certificates to people who didn’t want jab

www.theguardian.com

 

[pmv]

...I'm disappointed that he didn't develop superpowers, though.

 

[bbhaag]

I'm so protected against Covid that I'm no longer scared of it....it's fucking scared of me now.

Like I saw it coming at me the other day because my eyes can see shit like this and Covid took one look at me and was like "Aww hell no. I ain't going near that." then it backed off and moved onto someone else.

 

[dullard]

I'm so protected against Covid that I'm no longer scared of it....

Is this you? https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68477735
217 Covid vaccines so far.

 

[Muse]

Interesting comment I just encountered in today's New York Times:

One of the symptoms of Long COVID is strange memory "flubs," lapses, and mixups, because Long COVID causes such long-lasting brain damage.

This happens even among people who do not realize they have Long COVID, and often didn't even realize they initially had COVID at all. So your flubs could be a reaction to the madness in our society, or they could be Long COVID (or both).

Since Long COVID affects 20% of all infections, and people are now getting reinfected and reinfected (like playing Russian Roulette over and over), we will be seeing a lot more of these neurological problems in the near future.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

I just had covid end of Jan and the metal side effect of paxlovid I swear came back yesterday. Everything tasted metallic, except it was also kinda sour. IDK, weird. Today my taste seems normal. Maybe I just ate something bad.

 

[cytg111]

Well, we ate lead, guess this generations brain damage will be covid.