[iypx]

What strikes me, this was done in early 2021, yet the propaganda machine is still going strong with that whole persistent cough and fever thing... It's like there are entire establishments trying to guard information from normal people for some reason.

Case in point: I have just moved out of the UK last week, and to my surprise, Google is slowly starting to return better and better search results. I (suspected) I had two flareups of herpeses after both my pfizer vaccines when I was there, so I searched then on Google, zero, whole result pages filled with nhs links and other websites with copy-pasted content from nhs and the likes (90% telling me to go see a doctor...). I was going crazy, joking with friends that the vaccine might not be what they're telling us it is, given the wide range of 'undocumented' side effects I got from it.

Now that I'm searching from Moldova, actual first result was a paper documenting two doctors with herpes zoster after vaccination. Apparently it does happen, from both the vaccine and the infection. Guess I'm not crazy.

[adhesive_wombat]

I've often gotten a cold sore after a virus, I always just assumed it was probably that immunity is a bit wonky after an infection. In fact I think "cold sore" is so called exactly because a cold can set it off. I'd be extremely surprised if Covid was any different, if for no other reason than many colds are also coronaviruses.

Also to add a data point, 7 of the first 10 results for "herpes covid" from a UK IP are papers about it, including the first 5. The NHS page comes in at result 7, one is (allegedly) a science news website, and number 10 is a general news website.

[iypx]

Googling exactly "herpes covid" from my IP, gives 10/10 papers on the first page. On second page, I got 4 more papers, a paper disproving it, one reuters article about misuse of antivirals, and 4 articles about new drugs. This is fun.

Thinking now, I might have been in some kind of Google-bubble at that time, since I started my search with symptoms at first, and later I started making connections. So I guess Google decided I need to see a doctor :)

[nojokes]

Very interesting experience with Google. Were you logged in both times or it was anonymous search? Did you try to somehow refresh your IP address

[iypx]

I've been logged in into the same google account for at least 10 years.

Google knows exactly who I am, and what I am/want/etc. Yet the moment I landed in the UK, suddenly, I'm English, most of the times getting just *.co.uk results, as if the rest of the world doesn't exist anymore.

I'll be honest, it was helpful to know at what hour the Iceland and Aldi next to my house will open/close, and I didn't even had to tell it my address or turn my location on (this is amazing actually), and when it suggested where to find a dentist since I didn't know the city... But that's pretty much it.