Max
Here in Nashville we have a vax skeptic ...not anti vax....Republican talk radio host Phil valentine who is hovering near death on a ventilator from Covid
He got sick...got better for a week...and the Covid pneumonia hit and he’s been on a ventilator for ten days now
It’s grim but he could pull through
He’s more moderate than I am but he’s personally helped me on projects with his radio juice so I feel like I owe him and what he’s experiencing is real and may kill him...he’s I think late 50s perfect health
Unlike me....a basket case of heart , conduction, lungs blood clots and age liabilities and my case I thought I had was mild
5/2020
Now my antibodies are stil quite high...
Had Phil been vaxxed he’d likely not be so sick
And I don’t like it either ...it’s a trashy vax and does have issues....especially for me already on eliquis for clots in right leg from old motorcycle injury now popping off now and then creating a sea of emboli in my lower lungs which some days make it hard to walk to the barn and other days I barely notice
So yes I’m a vax skeptic
But after Phil got sick I got noid......after a year of riding it out...and boy was I a happy camper to learn yep I did have it when I thought i did and I’m drowning in antibodies and per my cardio doc at Vandy they beat Man made cell wall inhibitor vax any day....he was thrilled I showed 18 times the norm for Covid antibodies ...actually I think they count antigens which attach to antibodies
I’m just sharing....and I took plaquenil per malaria prophylaxis and therapeutic once symptomatic
It was milder than a summer cold...btw
I can think of a dozen, maybe two dozen people who have had Covid. Or who think they did. I suspect I might have had it January 2020. Only one friend died of it. His wife caught it and had a mild case, but my friend just got worse and worse. Hospitalized when his O2 fell into the 80s. Was sedated and ventilated. Developed pneumonia. The last week his kidneys quit and he only lasted a few more days. From infection until death was about six weeks.
I took the Moderna vax in March. I had recurring chills after shot #1 which makes sense if I already had antibodies from the virus itself. Not as much of a reaction with shot #2. I have a kidney disease which can be triggered by vaccines, but it can also go active from a viral infection so that risk was kind of a wash. I was fine. The only health issue I’ve had turned out to be from the statin I was taking.
Dr Zelenko said there were two phases to Covid. The viral illness phase, then about a week later the inflammatory phase, and that’s what gets people.
And that’s what you want to try to avoid by early prophylactic treatment that is being denied people.