What is everyone's thoughts on the "vaccine" mandate? (Page 18/18) TheDigitalAlchemist JAN 04, 11:09 PM so, First shot takes 2-4 weeks to build up an immunity. Second shot kicks it up a notch, and then, after about a month, you are "fully vacinnated"...then 6 months (5 months now) , you get a "booster" of "more of the same" and it immediately provides "extra-wextra" immunity against this new strain. sourmash JAN 04, 11:41 PM quote Originally posted by blackrams: I realize there's absolutely no chance of any open minded conversations here so................. As long as you are happy and see it that way, good for you. Rams You refused to accept a 40% increase in deaths in 2020 which had no Covid19 link. Mind closed much? 82-T/A [At Work] JAN 05, 08:52 AM quote Originally posted by sourmash: A lot of uninjected people haven't died from Covid19. There is absolutely no way to determine how an injected person would have reacted to a covid infection had they not gotten an injection. I got COVID twice... once before, and once after the injection. First time was in South-East Asia in January of 2020, all of us got it where I worked. It was rough... a lot of coughing and chest congestion. I also had some of the typical symptoms (headache, loss of taste, fatigue), but not incredibly so... the coughing and chest congestion was bad. But I also got the Swine Flu back in the mid 2000s, and Swine Flu was worse (for me). That said, I was in excellent physical condition in January of 2020... I ran 5-6 miles each day, and ate healthy, and had a metabolic age several years younger than my actual age (e.g., I was very thin and in good shape). Most of my colleagues got the anti-body test (I did not), and they'd all tested positive for having had it. I got the vaccine (Pfizer) in February and again in March (or maybe March / April, I could check, but don't care enough), of 2021. Second time, I tested positive for COVID (assumed to be the Delta variant) in July of 2021. It wasn't AS bad as it was when I got it in January of 2020... not as much chest congestion, but the "COVID-like" symptoms were more pronounced... e.g., loss of taste, fatigue, headache, etc. Less coughing though. At THAT time though, I'd completely stopped working out in the 2 years. I'd gained about 10 pounds, stopped running, and was not in as good a shape. So... if the vaccine had any affect on me, it perhaps muted the effects of the chest congestion, though it felt like the other symptoms were magnified... though perhaps they were simply more "obvious" because the other symptoms were less obvious. But I can only assume it did what was intended.