[ctime]

Avoided Covid until about three weeks ago. Kid brought it home from preschool.

4x Moderna.

Symptoms were sore throat, persistent cough, mild fever and sweats. No loss of taste or smell.

Edit: not sure why this was downvoted, I’m not complaining at all about my vaccine assisted recovery. I’m also immune compromised (in the last 6 months) and fairly happy with how well things worked out. I didn’t really even need to take time off and went to (remote) meetings. Covid was nothing compared to some bad drug interactions I had a few months prior.

I thought not losing any sense of smell or taste was most interesting and it was likely due to some combination of the specific variant, the Moderna vaccines and paxlovid that prevented that class of symptoms.

[throwaway202351]

fully recovered now, I'm assuming?

[bequanna]

The current variants seem to be much less severe.

Depending on age and health, it really makes it difficult to say if getting vaxxed was the “smart” move when weighing the risk of contraction vs the unknowns of any potential side effects.

[lockhouse]

Unless you had several co-morbidities, even the original variants of COVID weren't all that severe for most people.

Per the CDC:

> 146.6 Million Estimated Total Infections > 7.5 Million Estimated Hospitalizations > 921,000 Estimated Total Deaths

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

If memory serves, most of the panic in the early stages was really about the risk of overloading hospitals (which mostly didn't happen) and a lack of ventilators (which it turned out that ventilators made things worse for most COVID patients). COVID-19 itself wasn't extremely lethal at any point.

[DiogenesKynikos]

> COVID-19 itself wasn't extremely lethal at any point.

On a population level, it's the most lethal virus in the last 100 years. A virus that infects everyone and that kills 0.5-1% of those it infects is almost a worst-case scenario for public health.

[babyshake]

Not trying to troll, but why wouldn't a virus that infects everyone and kills 5-10% or more be the worst-case scenario?

[HWR_14]

The idea is a 5-10% fatal virus would have far more severe social distancing and thus couldn't infect everyone. Otherwise, a "100% fatal, infects everyone" disease would be the worst case scenario.

[ryandrake]

I wish I believed you, but sadly I think we learned nothing from COVID and if version 2.0 happens and is 5-10% fatal, we would make the same mistakes all over again: ignore it, downplay it, politicize it, and then finally half-ass the fight with the same weak uncoordinated actions.

[hammock]

Emerging science supported by multiple studies suggests 4x boosters may have actually hurt more than they helped: https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/repeated-covid-19-vacci...