I wonder if the new boosters will be given out for "free" (in quotes because it's taxpayers money blah blah, for the pedantic people)? I definitely want a booster since it's been more than a year(?) since the last one, and it would be great if they gave it out without additional charge.
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I had a whole thing with my pharmacy about this. They kept on asking for insurance and social security numbers. Me repeatedly pointing out that the vaccine is free and open to everyone living in the US regardless of status.
I swear they can't help themselves. They are so used to these fucking games.
The government only covers it for those who don't have insurance. It's free to you either way, but at the end of the day someone still gets the bill.
Is that true even now that we are out of the state of emergency?
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Something tells me that this is going to be a hard sell.
I think most people are out of pandemic-mode already even if the pandemic isn't done with us. And while it should be easier to sell the idea of getting a booster to people since there weren't piles of dead bodies from the vaccines like the anti-vaxx people predicted, but that kind of logic doesn't work on folks. The anti-vaxx people were proven wrong, and yet somehow those people are going to claim they were correct and be even more adamant about not getting the vaccines this time.
"They" are upgrading the 5G in our nanomachines, or something...
It’s a slightly harder sell because the vaccine didn’t kill me nor did I expect it to, but it definitely did knock me on my ass with some flu like side effects for a day or two.
I got the flu and covid shots last time. Knocked me on my ass for the weekend. BUT when I caught covid a few months later, it was an annoying cold. I'll take a weekend on the couch over a week or more of shittiness any time.
I have the ultimate defense against Covid: Being a loser who never leaves home unless I have to
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Did you get covid? Because even with all my vaccines and boosters I felt like absolute shit for 4 to 5 days and was out of work for a week. When I returned I still certainly wasn't 100% until the 2 week mark. I can't imagine what it would have been like without a vaccine. A day or two of feeling crappy ill take. Thank you very much.
You probably would have been very hard hit with COVID. The vaccines kind of knocked me out of commission for a day. I got COVID in February and I was out for a week with some lingering effects for another week. I quarantined and did not give it to the rest of my family though.
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My grandma just got COVID. It's convinced me to get more boosters.
I tried to get another booster for this year and my doctor said I can’t because I’ve already had the boosters. I was like yeah last fucking year but he told me to fuck off.
So until this shit gets down to the docs and pharmacies, you may not have much success unless you are older or immunocompromised
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Both my parents and a handful of friends have it right now
I feel like I’m only just recently hearing about “RSV” (Like within the last 9 months).
Is that a new thing or do I just live under a rock?
Babies always got it. But this is the first time I've really seen it be a concern for adults
I got it in December and holllly shit. Covid would have been better, supposedly. My parents got covid and they weren't out of it very long but this thing kicked the shit out of them for 2 weeks
I got it a couple weeks later and I've never been so wiped the hell out for 10 straight days. And a couple more weeks to recover
After seeing how people fared with covid and seeing what I went through with RSV, I'll take as many RSV vaccines as I'm allowed to take for the rest of my life
It was explained to me that RSV is a concern for adults more because they transmit it to young children who are at much greater risk from it. Most adults who get it don't even know it from another routine illness (sounds like your parents were an exception). I'm not a doctor, this is just how it was explained to me.
Yes that's typically what's happened but this year was a rough ass ride
I didn't know it was a thing until my second child got it in 2012. He had recently turned 1, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been (baby danger is for those 1 and younger). It took a while, but it cleared up. He was put on an emergency inhaler to help with the symptoms. I'm convinced that the RSV infection plus the fact that he was a small child (25th percentile for height and weight, but otherwise healthy) contributed to him developing asthma. His asthma doctor told me that is a very real possibility (there's no way to know for certain). He's gotten better as he's gotten older, but I'm forever on edge with new respiratory infections.
~~It's not a new thing, but I think the shots were mainly given to kids in the past.~~ But the symptoms can mimic Covid, so I think they have started advising more adults to get the shots.
RSV isn't a new thing, but the vaccine apparently is. See the reply. Below
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The last few boosters I got made me sicker than the last few COVID cases I got. Fever aches and fatigue for about 2 days.
Me too, and I was glad my body responded so I knew it was doing something.
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Be aware that since the official state of emergency was called off in the US, this likely won't be as readily available as previous.
There also may be a stalemate between insurers not wanting to cover cost who push employers to pay for vaccines because they want a healthy workforce in offices. Nonsense.
Stupid fucking greed goblins.
Is this gonna become a yearly thing?
When we failed to take the initial spread seriously and let the thing turn endemic, yes. Yes it will. Much like the flu.
Failing implies an attempt. The government deliberately chose to lift restrictions prematurely, knowing it would result in the deaths of millions of people, just to make billionaires richer.
While I agree with your assertion that it was done for financial reasons, it was already endemic by the time the world noticed.
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Yeah, they said a couple years ago, they were expecting it to have a yearly booster, same as the flu.
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