Posted on 07/13/2021 7:43:55 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Two weeks ago, we took a family trip out of state, our first in eighteen months.
Three-quarters of us had been fully vaccinated with two doses of the Pfizer shot, with the exception being our 11-year old daughter. We’d been extremely diligent for a year and half (often militant) in taking precautions: isolating and masking and distancing since March of 2020.
My wife, 16-year old son, and I all registered for vaccines the first day we were eligible in order to give our family the best chance at protection moving forward. I was ecstatic to get jabbed. We all were. It felt like we could exhale for the first time in a long time.
After our waiting period was over, we were hopeful we could finally begin doing some normal things and left for our first family vacation since lockdown began. We were being as careful as we could while traveling, but as vaccinated adults it’s easy to let your guard down and to generally be less attentive than you had been regarding wearing masks and hand sanitizing and distancing. False security began to set in.
A few days into the trip our daughter started complaining about headaches, which we attributed to the heat and to the general fatigue of travel and activity. The next day, she began to get congestion and said her throat was sore. We expected her allergies were just flaring up, but we’d seen enough stories not to take any chances. We brought her to the local clinic and received a positive result for COVID-19. It was extremely disappointing but we knew that with her age, she likely wasn’t going to have escalating symptoms. We immediately headed straight home and began family lockdown together. This is when we made our big mistake. With the rest of us fully vaccinated, we felt less vulnerable being home with our daughter without constant masking and distancing, but that illusion didn’t last very long.
After developing increasingly worsening cold symptoms, my wife got tested and we were stunned to get a positive for her. A breakthrough case. “What are the odds?” we asked ourselves. I’d felt poorly earlier in the week, but had two negative tests in a row and imagined I’d just gotten a rare summer cold. After feeling much worse over the weekend, I took my third test which came back positive for COVID. Our son was asymptomatic but we tested him as a precaution, and he returned a positive result as well.
So, amazingly we are four for four with COVID here in our house, with three fully vaccinated people testing positive for the virus, two of us symptomatic. I’m not sure what the odds are, but we’re seriously considering the lottery. I can’t say we aren’t more than a little disappointed to be here after being so careful and diligent for a year and a half, but I also feel extremely fortunate. We’ll likely all recovery quickly, however not everyone will be that lucky.
The doctor who gave me my test results said that this Delta variant is frightening and unpredictable; showing a velocity and ease of transition that she wishes people understood and took seriously. She has been alarmed by how quickly it has spread and by how many people are still avoiding the vaccine, giving the virus an advantage it shouldn’t have at this point.
I’m hopefully in the worst of it now: congestion, headache, body aches, cough, fatigue, etc. I lost my sense of taste and smell (which for a devoted foodie is torture) but overall it feels like a very bad cold, which feels like good news. I shudder to think how bad it might have been had we not been vaccinated.
Your year sucked, sucker.
I’ve lived well.
Sucker.
Silly rabbits, Tricks are for kids!
Sounds like the vaccine worked smashingly! Not.
Which just goes to show ya the vaccine is not worth taking.
The vaccine ain’t about protecting you from the Wuhan Flu.
It’s about getting that prion disease into your bloodstream.
There will be many self describes Christians in hell.
Fear works.
Oh, paaaleeeez!
“I shudder to think how bad it might have been had we not been vaccinated.”
Based on what? How bad would it have been?
“she wishes people understood and took seriously. She has been alarmed by how quickly it has spread and by how many people are still avoiding the vaccine,”
Typical “vax speak”.
Here we are, doctor and patient. Sick, yet vaccinated. Doctor deflects blame - the problem is never medicine, pharma or the vaccine. It’s the people who are healthy yet unvaccinated. They are the problem.
You are to blame. I am to blame.
After years of observing the opposite of what we’re told... ala abusive relationship gas-lighting, we’re made to be called crazy. We’re the problem. Look what you made me do.
Incredible how they find a way to justify the vaccine even when it fails.confirmation bias?
He is a dumb as a box of rocks. The “vaccine” gene therapy doesn’t create immunity. It can’t cuze it’s not a vaccine. Faksie tells you that.
They changed the narrative now, but Fauchi is initially on record stating that the vaccine will NOT prevent a person from getting or transmitting the virus.
The original sell line was, If you get vaccinated you will never have to be hospitalized or die.
Exactly the same?
I’ll second your post! Thanks.
“A sick, dependent population is an obedient population…”
Ding, ding winner. Dictatorship type governments have used that tool forever. A well fed and healthy population is too frisky and at that leads to trouble.
Viruses gonna virus.
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