Posted on 01/10/2022 7:55:10 AM PST by MMaschin
Last December my wife and I had diagnosed cases of COVID. We are both in our 50's, relatively healthy and like many the symptoms were comparably to a bad flu.
After recovering we chose different options, she chose to be vaccinated and was boosted last month. I chose to not risk the vaccine and to trust in natural immunity.
Last week we were supposed to fly, I had a cough, my wife insisted I get tested for COVID before flying. I thought it was just allergies, but I ended up testing positive for COVID. My wife then tells me that she has been having headaches, she then tests positive for COVID.
We both had the same symptoms, mild headache, a cough, and congestion. Her symptoms were around 1 day ahead of mine, so I believe she likely contracted it first. The symptoms were easily controlled with OTC medicine - Benadryl and Ibuprofen.
I fully believe that natural immunity is as, or more effective than vaccination. I believe that Omicron is not weaker than other variants, it's just that most people are either vaccinated or have natural immunity. There was a case study of a Nebraska case that shows this.
Nebraska case study of Omicron with 6 family members
The index patient and the four household contacts with previous confirmed infections described the symptoms and severity of their recent COVID-19 infection as being similar to or milder than those during their first infection. The five reinfected patients experienced fewer current symptoms, including loss of taste (none), loss of smell (none), and subjective fever (two), compared with symptoms reported during their first infections (four, four, and four, respectively). The unvaccinated patient without a previous COVID-19 diagnosis experienced cough, joint pain, congestion, fever, and chills.
In the above case study all of those who had recovered from a symptomatic case of COVID had mild Omicron symptoms, the one person who did not have a prior COVID case (was also unvaccinated) had more serious symptoms with Omicron.
I believe that those who are over 40 and have not recovered from a symptomatic case of COVID, should be vaccinated, but for those who have recovered, or are under 40 AND do not have other health issues, the risk of vaccination is likely greater than that posed by COVID.
What we need in the statistical data is for the 'unvaccinated' to be split into 'unvaccinated WITH prior COVID' and 'unvaccinated WITHOUT prior COVID'.
I’m sorry, this is impossible. I can assure you that you did not recover and are, in fact, dead.
Are there any other characteristics/behaviors that separate you and your wife?
Are you both social distancing, etc?
People tend to react differently to Covid.
Sorry for the confusion. You are correct - I had diagnosed COVID in Dec 2020.
Thanks for sharing your experience and opinion. It is what is called “anecdotal.”
My opinion is not to be vaccinated at any age. I am 65+ and have absolutely no plans to take the mRNA shots.
If you look at the data for South Africa where Omicron has been for a while the infection rate is through the roof but not the death rate which is almost 50% below the world average and 60% lower than the U.S. (cases per million) and that is with a vax rate of almost 75% in this country. South Africa has one of the lowest vax rates in the world at 36%. So much for vax protection from death.
And then there is the safety of the vaccine. CDC VAERS reports over 20,000 deaths and most professionals who look at the data objectively (not many) believe the underreporting at VAERS is off by a factor of 10, at least. Look at the real-life evidence (https://bit.ly/3eQmIrk) or this report from over the weekend (https://bit.ly/3faOMG6).
And finally, why is there no discussion of treatment? While Omicron treatment is somewhat limited at the moment, the supply of treatment options will grow exponentially over the next 60 days (Regeneron, Paxlovid, Sotrovimab, etc). I don’t quite understand why everyone is focusing on vaccines that do not work and can be dangerous and not focusing on treatment as we do with most illnesses.
In light of the CDC admitting that something like 94% of Covid "deaths" were in persons with 2 or more pre-existing co-morbidities -- and if my calculator is correct -- the actual Trump "death" figure ought to be around 15,706. Not sure Diaper Joe has any excuse. Who knows? His "actual" number may be much higher. (Speculation only)
Son caught COVID the following week. We were eating chicken wings off the same plate just before he started with bad symptoms and tested positive. Despite direct exposure we never tested positive on several antigen tests (we didn't want to spread it.)
I can't do flu shots, I always get sick as hell from those. I stopped them in 2013 and haven't caught the flu since.
It's been two months since we had verified COVID in the home. Not sure but that may be blessings as much as the supplements.
Correct.
“The most common genetic test uses a method called reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Right now, this is considered the “gold standard” for diagnosing COVID-19,... One downside of RT-PCR is that a person can test positive after they have recovered and no longer have an active infection but still have inactive (dead) pieces of virus in their body.”
https://www.nationalacademies.org/based-on-science/what-is-the-best-type-of-covid-19-test-to-get
Why? Unless people are really sick. There isn't a need to do that. That would only spread the stuff, etc.
No symptoms = not sick. The symptoms ARE the sickness; the fever, cough, runny nose, weakness, general misery of COVID. Carrying the virus without any discomfort is not an infection, just an exposure.
More like "We’ve become a nation propagandized into becoming a society of hypochondriacs".
That’s all I have been asking for, but we are only presented with skewed facts.
Exactly. And that’s what I told her. Still, she had no idea how long it would take, so stuck it out to the end—about 10 hours or so. I would have left after 2.
After she told me about that, I decided no way in Hell I was going to do the same.
Why do I need to have the government tell me I’m sick when I already know it? My symptoms were Covid symptoms, that was enough for me. I stayed home and took care of myself. Still am!
I had the alpha Rona last year at this time. Got they J&&J vax in April. I have been exposed to delta and omicron repeatedly and got nothing.
It wasn’t that bad the first time and I likely have had both with no symptoms to show.
I am done with it all. The fear porn, lockdowns, vaccines, masks , all of it. If I get a version of it and go tits up, that’s the way that it goes, because I will not live on my knees
Just get the Ivermectin cocktail and test negative in five days.
Only the Mrs. was vaccinated.
Amen to that. I refuse to be fearful and I go about my life as I did before all of this nonsense. I have been - I don’t avoid going into places and I don’t even own a mask.
I had it in November. Felt miserable for about four days and recovered. The cough lasted a couple of weeks and then stopped. I probably have antibodies galore.
Thank you so much for posting this post. It gives me the chance to write about my Covid experiences and warn people.
I want to post my own vanity on the subject but cannot right now because I can’t take the chances of a particular person seeing it right now because it involves bad news I am waiting for the right moment to deliver.
This is important for everyone to understand.
Omicron is not the only game in town. I don’t know if there is a new strain of Covid not yet identified or Alpha still exists.
Beware of diarrhea as a leading indicator of a serious Covid infection that precedes lung involvement and is associated with a poorer outcome/rapid onset of this. This diarrhea precedes other symptoms and one can easily think it has to do with food poisoning.
Do not write off diarrhea as something you ate, especially if you can be tricked into this because it is suffered by the people in your group who all ate the same thing you suspect to be the cause.
Don’t share food off your plate as in more than one person digging into a shareable dessert ever— there is no reason for it when you can just portion it out to smaller dishes first— or drink from the same bottle of even a spouse if you feel the beginning the beginning edges of some gastro thing.
“(Speculation only)”
Kudos.
At this time speculation is all we have as how many have actually died and were assisted with pre-existing health conditions is a guess no matter who was in the WH. We only have the information provided by people who have something to lose and I’m back to how far I can throw them with that.
wy69
FIRST...you can NOT test for Covid because the “gold standard of covid tests”...the PCR test was discontinued by the FDA and CDC because it is totally unreliable...it”cannot differentiate from covid or flue” . The remaining approved test is an Antigen test, which by the FDA’s own declaration states “This test cannot be used to diagnose a current infection in the patient”...because the antibodies from any Corona infection can remain in the blood stream for weeks, months, or years. The truth finally coming out by them also casts the so called statistical data as to the number of cases, deaths, and existence of COVID19 into doubt! Deaths of any cause were required to have a covid pcr test, and if positive, the death certificate MUST list COVID as the cause of death, even in suicide, cardiac failure, diabetes, pneumonia, etc, etc. The statistical data as to the DANGERS of the fake vaccine are, though also in question as to accuracy because of the severely UNDER REPORTED deaths and reaction, non the less prove the vac is extremely DANGEROUS! With the admission of both the above statistical data, the fact that almost everyone has a 99%+ survival from the flue, and a high risk of death or serious reaction to the shot. Like playing Russian Roulette with an empty pistol, or a pistol with only one empty chamber.....I will take the odds of the EMPTY pistol. So why recommend ANYONE get the shot? PUN!
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