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05C40 said:
I have never had a bad reaction to a vaccine or any sort of shot in my entire 71.5 years of life. The only time I was at all worried about getting a vaccine was in basic training in the Army when we were lined up in our shorts and nothing else to get mass vaccinated and the medical NCO said something like, "Boys this isn't going to hurt, but if you jerk when this spray gun injects the vaccine, it will open up your arm like a straight razor." Don't know if he was telling the truth or not, but it sure made us all hold still as the vaccines were administered.
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Got my first dose of the shingles vaccine earlier this month. I had ever had an adverse reaction to any type of vaccine. I was told the first dose of the shingles vaccine isn’t bad, but the second one will likely kick your ass. I definitely felt rough after the first one (hit me the day after), so I am dreading the second one.
 
anti-vax people seem to be winning all over as preventable diseases rise


Years after the virus that causes COVID-19 kicked off a global pandemic, it’s still sending thousands of Canadians into hospital each year alongside other respiratory infections — despite a suite of vaccines that can slash someone’s risk of serious illness.

Striking new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows hospitalization rates for vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases more than doubled in 2024 compared to pre-pandemic levels, all while vaccination rates are backsliding.

There were 142 hospitalizations for every 100,000 Canadians that year, the data shows, up from roughly 66 per 100,000 in 2019.
 
Icky Mettle said:
Got my first dose of the shingles vaccine earlier this month. I had ever had an adverse reaction to any type of vaccine. I was told the first dose of the shingles vaccine isn’t bad, but the second one will likely kick your ass. I definitely felt rough after the first one (hit me the day after), so I am dreading the second one.
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Did not affect me when I got the Old People two shots
 
I wonder how far away we have to get from COVID to be able to do proper studies about what worked and what didn't. My greatest fear is that we assimilate the wrong lessons and get rocked by the next pandemic. Weird to say, but we were really lucky with COVID.
 
CRHeel94 said:
I wonder how far away we have to get from COVID to be able to do proper studies about what worked and what didn't. My greatest fear is that we assimilate the wrong lessons and get rocked by the next pandemic. Weird to say, but we were really lucky with COVID.
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I think it will be at least after the Trump administration and maybe longer. I can't believe the politics gets involved with determining the scientifically best way to respond to a pandemic, but here we are.

We still still don't even know definitively how it started. Although there is growing scientific majority that it likely was a lab leak, no one credible is saying what the cause was definitively either way. And China isn't going to release those records anytime soon.

And we have to be a little careful. We modeled a lot of our procedures on what we should have done with the Spanish flu. Turns out covid wasn't as lethal so maybe a bit of an overreaction, but there's no guarantee that the next one won't be as bad or worse than 1918.

They'll be writing studies for years on how to get people to believe public health officials. Skepticism of government and the medical establishment always happens during every pandemic, going back thousands of years. But it would be great to figure out the best ways to reduce that.
 
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altmin said:
anti-vax people seem to be winning all over as preventable diseases rise


Years after the virus that causes COVID-19 kicked off a global pandemic, it’s still sending thousands of Canadians into hospital each year alongside other respiratory infections — despite a suite of vaccines that can slash someone’s risk of serious illness.

Striking new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows hospitalization rates for vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases more than doubled in 2024 compared to pre-pandemic levels, all while vaccination rates are backsliding.

There were 142 hospitalizations for every 100,000 Canadians that year, the data shows, up from roughly 66 per 100,000 in 2019.
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Unfortunately, the internet works faster than Darwin. They are making more stupid people faster than nature can kill the ones already here.
 
altmin said:
anti-vax people seem to be winning all over as preventable diseases rise


Years after the virus that causes COVID-19 kicked off a global pandemic, it’s still sending thousands of Canadians into hospital each year alongside other respiratory infections — despite a suite of vaccines that can slash someone’s risk of serious illness.

Striking new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows hospitalization rates for vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases more than doubled in 2024 compared to pre-pandemic levels, all while vaccination rates are backsliding.

There were 142 hospitalizations for every 100,000 Canadians that year, the data shows, up from roughly 66 per 100,000 in 2019.
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Idiocracy
 
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