| 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.
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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.