Even pre COVID I was the vaccine Nazi. I told my ex to go get a flu shot in 2001 or thereabouts and he started telling me stupid conspiracy shit about mercury and eggs and whatall, and I gave him my biggest vampire smile and told him to quit his shit and go get one because I don't live with plague rats. I would not call him antivax, he has dutifully gotten many of them, but the ignorant thoughts in his head are ignorant. (To be fair we didn't have home Internet in those days and he didn't have a GP to review with either so it was easier to be ignorant). I will always do what I can to protect you, it's SO important. Blessing to you.

Hey, I’m just some internet stranger, but I want you to know that i care for you and i wish you a fast recovery.

I never really got much reaction from any of the Covid shots, but with the last one I also got the shingles vaccine, and I'm pretty sure that one is what hit me hard for a few days. Beats getting shingles though, and if what I understand is true usually how your body reacts to a vaccine is just a mild version of what the real thing would be like.

got the razor blade variant last month, started feeling ill on sunday tested with a somewhat older test, strong positive, then start feeling pain in the throat which got worst, and the fever lasted 3 days, plus the sore throat intensified to throat pain and irritation, razor blade stage. then bizarrely started just hawking mucus and coughing up white phelgm every few minutes which turned yellow and slightly brown as the days went on, for days on end(no eating or drinking because swallowing was too painful, and swollen). the previous vaccine seems to be little effect on this variant.

i was looking at the back of my throat the whole time, there was a strange white film over it.

Yes, my case was basically a stuffy nose and nothing more, because I frantically jam needles into myself anytime someone will give me one.

However, the first week of March 2020 before lockdown I had the very faintest whiff of a cold, like it would be something I'd ignore in normal times. Employee health kicked me out for four days. I wonder if I got a subclinical case of alpha COVID and that's given me more protection. The only person that I know who got alpha COVID before vaccines is the person who has never gotten it again.

You're a genetic super dodger.

Can I still go within 12 hours?

Same here, I had both COVID vaccine and the flu shot on the same day this year. I ended up with a 102°F fever for ~24hr and had to skip work the next day. But unlike actually getting sick I felt 100% better the second day after getting them.

The last two times I've felt nothing and the common denominator was getting Pfizer instead of Moderna. Is it possible your pharmacy was out of what you usually get and had to use the other COVID vaccine, which your body may react to differently?

much better than getting the current covid which causes severe sorethroat, to the point the pain and swelling prevents swallowing+ constant upwelling of white sputum and coughing at the same time. i had that variant, and i was just vaccinated 2 months prior.

Huh, this is the first time out hasn't kicked me in the ass and I got them both in the same arm

Moderna does that because it is a higher dose. Body aches, headaches means a robust immune response.

Am also Canadian but work in health care and employee health started them yesterday so I nipped up today.

It could also be the variant(s) that particular year. At least that's what I tell myself, as I, too, am getting older. The flu vaccine always makes me feel a little crappy for the rest of the day, but this year's COVID booster (Moderna) put me out of commission for 24 hours and hurt at the injection site for a few days.

Can't talk now, the spike proteins are making me watch Letterkenny.

RIP.

The only vaccine that's ever bothered me in any way is the shingles vaccine but it just made me tired and achy for a week. Which is still 10 million times better than shingles. Even antivaxxers should get the shingles vaccine because shingles in your eye which blinds you really, really sucks.

I myself only had a stuffy nose with it. God bless vaccines because a lot of people have suffered with it!

Don't get high on Pfizer's supply.

I'm so, so anal about them. I realized recently that people that got vaccinated only in 2021 that they're basically unvaccinated now and God knows what they'll spread.

It won't have given you adequate coverage. Covid changes constantly. Even having the current Covid variant doesn't cover you 100 percent against getting the same variant again. And if you become immune, immunity against the current variant only lasts up to 9 months. Meanwhile, you will likely have ended up with some brain damage, perhaps a touch of myocarditis, microvascular problems, blood clots... and you'll probably catch the next variant too.

Get vaccinated.

Well if you get it every 6 months which is recommended if you are immune compromised you would be at 10, but everyone should have 5 about now depending on when you started.

I asked a virologist and here is their answer.

I'm rotting like a cabbage left in the sun but also I can scan myself at the grocery store and leave without paying.

It sure is. The unvaccinated kids in our local ICU have it rough.