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.
Here’s a clickable version of your link (not sure why it didn’t post as clickable.....if you don’t put any html in your post, your URL/link will be clickable)....
Immunization with SARS Coronavirus Vaccines Leads to Pulmonary Immunopathology on Challenge with the SARS Virus
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0035421
The billionaire propagandists have created a vaccine cult.
There are no facts that can falsify their narrative.
The jokes write themselves.
Interesting how, in Sweden, kids never masked....never stopped going to school, activities, etc., and not ONE kid died there.
Giving these shots to kids (I know...only one of this writer’s kids got the shots) is simply criminal.....considering the adverse effects that are being seen.
Don’t you know the “vaccines” only work if everyone within 200 yards is “vaccinated” or wears a good luck charm (i.e., a mask) to ward off the Communist Chinese evil spirit Covid? This is one of the significant limitations to the experimental injections ... that, and not being protected from the evil spirit Covid and even possibly contracting it.
I took absolutely no precautions during the entire year and have not taken any vaccination and I am not sick at all. I didn't wear a mask, social distance or remained in my home, locked down. I traveled as I usually do and went about my business without being under the spell of the government fear mongers.
And haven't tested positive for the covid either, mainly because I have never taken a test to determine it. With no symptoms, I never saw the need. But then I don't run to the doctor every time I get a cold or the flu either.
The moral to this story is, sometimes it just sucks being a liberal.
Then why are you posting this kind of BS?
A mouth watering observation.
Nine year old article that deals with neither the current vid or jab.
But useful to see.
Hmmm. The vaccine failed miserably, “breaking through” 3 times in one family simultaneously, and it’s those who don’t want the jab who are at fault? And those symptoms are probably the exact symptoms they’d have had based on their likely ages if they’d never been jabbed, so the jab was useless at best and long term harmful at worst. But the left exhibits a creepy desperation that we all get jabbed. We live in an insane asylum. Coitus them and the equine they rode in on.
Cruising is back and the vaxxed dont want the unvaxxed on the same ships with them...
However now one of these holier-than-thou we-four-and-no-more vaxxed due to cruise in about 2 weeks is among a group of vaxxed friends who have the Wu Hu Flu...
KARMA !!!
I always got the impression he was gay. Surprised that he’s hetero w/ a wife and kids.
They are attempting to shame you with the masks.
It’s like how Germany required jews to wear the yellow stars.
It’s to identify and shame you at work for an experimental mRNA gene therapy that might improve your chance to recover by 0.01 or 0.02 at best.
Having a wife and kids doesn’t mean he’s hetero.
:)
Whom the gods will destroy, they first make mad.
God blessed the Lads however. There really is a verse for that:
Genesis 48:16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
Can you believe it... some folks just have no sense of humor!
I enjoyed the twisted irony, very much.
:D
I will not be shamed. If anyone says anything to me about wearing the mask, I just smirk and tell them I’m protecting myself from those that are “fully vaccinated” since they are more prone to infection than I am...then I roll my eyes.
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