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  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,197 Member
    It seems it can travel under another name beginning I think with, T, it might just be in our vaccines again after all this time. If anyone can enlighten me, please tell me I'm wrong and worrying about nothing.

    Thiomersal

    https://www.ncirs.org.au/sites/default/files/2018-12/thiomersal-fact-sheet.pdf

    This is Australian based but probably still useful info for anyone anywhere .

    is also not a new article so does not include Covid vaccines

    However https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-covid-vaccine-ingredients-idUSKBN2AQ2SW - would appear they do not contain any thiomersal.

    Pretty sure it's thimerosol, unless this is a thing like aluminum and aluminium, where the same thing has slightly different names in different English-speaking countries.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,527 Member
    Well the articles I linked spelt it like I did so that is the spelling in Australia and UK at least. ( one article from each)
  • siberiantarragon
    siberiantarragon Posts: 265 Member
    edited July 2022
    Am I the only one who has gone over 2 years without consuming any junk food or restaurant food? Unhealthy foods weaken the immune system and promote inflammation.

    While I'm all for vaccines, face masks, and physical distancing, these precautions don't go far enough. During the course of this pandemic, nutritional immunology NEVER made it into the national dialogue, not even when a study showed that those with higher quality diets were at lower risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19.

    Are nutritional deficiencies and junk food sacred?

    I can't say I've gone 2 years without consuming junk food or restaurant food, but, I do think you have a point. It really concerns me how much unhealthier the average person's lifestyle got during shutdowns. I read somewhere that the average American gained 29 pounds during shutdowns. I know people who developed alcohol problems or ate their way into type 2 diabetes during shutdowns. We have to think about the long-term effects of all this if we're going to factor in total deaths. There seems to be a huge disconnect with people when it comes to their diet and health. People really convinced themselves it was healthy to sit on the couch ordering takeout for months on end when really this should have been a wakeup call for anyone with diet-related conditions to eat healthier and lose weight if necessary. Also it likely would not have been anywhere near as destructive or needed such an extreme response if we didn't have a crisis of obesity and lifestyle-related illnesses.
    Have you had it? Did you know any long-haulers? I know some and they're all ages. Not old. Not elderly and they did not have any underlying conditions. They do now. It's like having mono. They're tired and worn out. I'm talking high school kids with a track and field career who can't do it anymore. The side effects have lingered on and on.

    I'm vaccinated but just wondering: why does the demographic profile of the average COVID long-hauler more closely match the demographic profile of people most likely to get a psychosomatic illness, rather than the profile of people most likely to have severe COVID symptoms?
  • ReenieHJ
    ReenieHJ Posts: 9,723 Member
    @Hiawassee88 I hope she recovers quickly and safely. :(

    The trouble with this virus is there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason who gets it and how badly, how long it lasts, what their symptoms will be, if the tests are accurate. News says Cruise lines don't even need to let it be known if Covid is on board or not. I hope I read that wrong. :( I flew, the end of May, no masks. You go shopping and you don't see the masking up anymore. And I'm as guilty as everyone else, especially during the hot summer. But I do keep my distance when I can. And I've had my 1st booster, probably time to look into my 2nd booster.
  • Hiawassee88
    Hiawassee88 Posts: 35,754 Member
    edited July 2022
    I'm back and boosted UP. 😍 The Chief gave it to me. The head of the medical community. Why? Because he likes me and we visit. He told me this was his first time at it and he learned everything from utube. He remembered my first time with big tears running down my face. Today, he gave me two tissues and the floodgates opened. I blathered and foamed at the mouth. I told him about everything. I asked him all kinds of questions and he showed me the latest info. I told him about my CTC family members and how they keep haranguing me. You know what he said? Hotdogs give you those same consequences. He doesn't have a date for the tweaked version for the variant. We talked about families in general. When you lose the ones you love, what are you left with?

    I feel like something has moved over inside of me, I think I have someone else's DNA. Definitely Native American. Rolling ROFL's.
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    ReenieHJ wrote: »
    One of dh's golfing buddies just got Covid. As I mentioned in a previous post, my nephew and his family have it. And now President Biden.
    I just wonder why everyone has let their guard down(including me) :( I'm not looking forward to school starting up again, especially with many of the schools no longer requiring masks and the summer filled with people back from vacations.

    Because fatigue for me. I mask up on public transportation and inside Ubers... I don't mask much anywhere else because I had covid 3 times and am boosted and vaxxed.
  • ReenieHJ
    ReenieHJ Posts: 9,723 Member
    ReenieHJ wrote: »
    One of dh's golfing buddies just got Covid. As I mentioned in a previous post, my nephew and his family have it. And now President Biden.
    I just wonder why everyone has let their guard down(including me) :( I'm not looking forward to school starting up again, especially with many of the schools no longer requiring masks and the summer filled with people back from vacations.

    Because fatigue for me. I mask up on public transportation and inside Ubers... I don't mask much anywhere else because I had covid 3 times and am boosted and vaxxed.

    So this thinking that you develop natural immunity to Covid is......wrong? :)

    I got Covid about 3 months before vaccines were available, along with my dh. Neither of us is young and he's an overweight smoker. He said his felt like a bad cold and I was exhausted for a few days. He got it a 2nd time this last winter and said it felt like a bad cold. I self tested and evidently was negative(?). It really is an unpredictable thing, when it comes to who it's going to grab and grab good. :/
    We're both vaxxed and boosted.
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    ReenieHJ wrote: »
    ReenieHJ wrote: »
    One of dh's golfing buddies just got Covid. As I mentioned in a previous post, my nephew and his family have it. And now President Biden.
    I just wonder why everyone has let their guard down(including me) :( I'm not looking forward to school starting up again, especially with many of the schools no longer requiring masks and the summer filled with people back from vacations.

    Because fatigue for me. I mask up on public transportation and inside Ubers... I don't mask much anywhere else because I had covid 3 times and am boosted and vaxxed.

    So this thinking that you develop natural immunity to Covid is......wrong? :)

    I got Covid about 3 months before vaccines were available, along with my dh. Neither of us is young and he's an overweight smoker. He said his felt like a bad cold and I was exhausted for a few days. He got it a 2nd time this last winter and said it felt like a bad cold. I self tested and evidently was negative(?). It really is an unpredictable thing, when it comes to who it's going to grab and grab good. :/
    We're both vaxxed and boosted.

    I really do think it's a roulette wheel for symptoms and severity as well as lasting effects.
  • Hiawassee88
    Hiawassee88 Posts: 35,754 Member
    edited July 2022
    https://www.umms.org/coronavirus/covid-vaccine/facts/immunity
    https://www.science.org/content/article/more-people-are-getting-covid-19-twice-suggesting-immunity-wanes-quickly-some
    'The coronavirus acquired so many mutations that newer versions became more transmissible and able to evade immunity. You can catch a version of Omicron after recovering from an older, non-Omicron variant. You can even get sick with one of the newer Omicron subvariants after getting over a different version of it, multiple times in the unvaccinated and vaccinated.'

    There was a blowout in the waiting room. Another CTC member was arguing with a waiting couple and the nurse. She said, I'm here to get the booster but I don't know why. I've had it before and the man said, but you didn't die, did you. Then it went on from there. He told her she could refuse, just go home and die.' A total cluster. We've all lost that lovin' feeling out here in the wild, wild west.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,323 Community Helper
    ReenieHJ wrote: »
    ReenieHJ wrote: »
    One of dh's golfing buddies just got Covid. As I mentioned in a previous post, my nephew and his family have it. And now President Biden.
    I just wonder why everyone has let their guard down(including me) :( I'm not looking forward to school starting up again, especially with many of the schools no longer requiring masks and the summer filled with people back from vacations.

    Because fatigue for me. I mask up on public transportation and inside Ubers... I don't mask much anywhere else because I had covid 3 times and am boosted and vaxxed.

    So this thinking that you develop natural immunity to Covid is......wrong? :)

    I got Covid about 3 months before vaccines were available, along with my dh. Neither of us is young and he's an overweight smoker. He said his felt like a bad cold and I was exhausted for a few days. He got it a 2nd time this last winter and said it felt like a bad cold. I self tested and evidently was negative(?). It really is an unpredictable thing, when it comes to who it's going to grab and grab good. :/
    We're both vaxxed and boosted.

    As with vax immunity, the natural immunity wouldn't necessarily be expected to entirely prevent infection, rather we'd just hope for it to reduce severity next time. With the variants, though, that's not even a for-sure thing that severity would be less. Probably matters what our overall state of health is at time of infection, too - we all go through periods where we're better or worse nourished, rested, maybe recovering from some other thing, etc.
  • siberiantarragon
    siberiantarragon Posts: 265 Member
    If natural immunity can't prevent you from getting COVID again because the virus mutates too quickly, then why would the vaccine work when it doesn't even expose you to the entire antigen?
  • siberiantarragon
    siberiantarragon Posts: 265 Member
    Nobody claims the vaccine is perfect.

    They did originally. They said it was over 95% effective originally which is about as close to perfect as you get with vaccines. Now they can't even give us a number. Also, remember they originally claimed COVID mutated slowly and mutations were not expected to significantly reduce the efficacy of the vaccine? Believe the science, whatever it is this week.
    Despite mutations in the virus it does reduce your chances of catching it and greatly reduce the chances of severe disease if you do

    No vaccine reduces your chance of GETTING a virus. The virus will still get into your body either way. It just reduces your symptoms and the ability of the virus to replicate (if the vaccine is effective, that is). Of course in some viruses, as with dengue fever and the vaccine trials for the original SARS, being infected once actually makes the symptoms worse if you are infected again.