First, I wish for you continued improvement in health, and I hope that other long-haulers -- a close friend of mine among them -- experience improvement in health over time as well.
Second, thank you for writing a very sensible and at the same time heartfelt comment which takes all the complexities of the situation into account. I don't read most of the posts on this series because too many of them seem to me locked into one narrow point of view. Your final paragraph especially deserves wide publicity.
I know four people who died of Covid. One of them was my mother, who died in August 2020. Last spring, given what I knew about Covid then and that the people I knew who had already been jabbed had done all right, I decided to try the jab, as an experiment. I had a strong reaction to the second jab, strong enough to decide then and there not to get a booster jab if it were to be promoted, but it passed within a day. Now that more time has passed, it looks to me that Covid is best treated as a worse than usual kind of flu. I won't be getting a booster, just as I don't get flu vaccines; instead I'll continue with the same things that I do to stay healthy that have proven their worth over time. That means obtaining health information from a very wide array of practitioners and doing my best to live in a way consonant with keeping myself as healthy as I can. It also means supporting freedom of choice for everyone in deciding how to address health questions, including Covid.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
Re: Perspective on Covid vaccines & Long-Haul Covid
Date: 2021-11-17 12:38 am (UTC)Second, thank you for writing a very sensible and at the same time heartfelt comment which takes all the complexities of the situation into account. I don't read most of the posts on this series because too many of them seem to me locked into one narrow point of view. Your final paragraph especially deserves wide publicity.
I know four people who died of Covid. One of them was my mother, who died in August 2020. Last spring, given what I knew about Covid then and that the people I knew who had already been jabbed had done all right, I decided to try the jab, as an experiment. I had a strong reaction to the second jab, strong enough to decide then and there not to get a booster jab if it were to be promoted, but it passed within a day. Now that more time has passed, it looks to me that Covid is best treated as a worse than usual kind of flu. I won't be getting a booster, just as I don't get flu vaccines; instead I'll continue with the same things that I do to stay healthy that have proven their worth over time. That means obtaining health information from a very wide array of practitioners and doing my best to live in a way consonant with keeping myself as healthy as I can. It also means supporting freedom of choice for everyone in deciding how to address health questions, including Covid.