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SJHovey said:
I got it. I didn't really have any reaction to it other than some soreness in the shoulder after both shots.

Strangely enough, I never had chickenpox as a kid, even though my siblings did, along with numerous friends. My doctor told me one day that I had it, I was just one of the lucky people who didn't have the symptoms.
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I don't know if this is an Old Husbands' Tale, but I always heard getting chicken pox as an adult was dangerous?
 
French Rage said:
I actually had it twice. Apparently the first time was so mild it didn't take. Then one day I was acting odd and another parent said it was chicken pox, which my mother didn't believe because I had already had it, but sure enough by that evening it had broken out. So maybe I took yours?
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Yeah, maybe. If so, thanks.

My siblings had it bad, and all I remember is my mother telling me that I was going to get it too. Has to be the closest I'll ever come to knowing what it's like sitting on death row (hopefully) waiting for the bullet to hit me.
 
Kepler said:
I don't know if this is an Old Husbands' Tale, but I always heard getting chicken pox as an adult was dangerous?
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I've heard that too, and in fact that's how my discussion with the doctor got started, when I asked him about that. He told me that I didn't really need to worry. Because I was in a household (and even shared a bedroom) with siblings who had it, he said that if I got tested for the antibodies, he was 99% certain the test would reveal I had them. That was good enough for me.

But I definitely got sold on the shingles vaccine. A friend of mine got a bad case on his legs, and even on his face, and described it as one of the most painful afflictions he ever had. Then, another guy I know told me he got them around his anus.

At that point I was like where do I get those Shingrix shots.
 
SJHovey said:
I've heard that too, and in fact that's how my discussion with the doctor got started, when I asked him about that. He told me that I didn't really need to worry. Because I was in a household (and even shared a bedroom) with siblings who had it, he said that if I got tested for the antibodies, he was 99% certain the test would reveal I had them. That was good enough for me.

But I definitely got sold on the shingles vaccine. A friend of mine got a bad case on his legs, and even on his face, and described it as one of the most painful afflictions he ever had. Then, another guy I know told me he got them around his anus.

At that point I was like where do I get those Shingrix shots.
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LOL.

I knew nothing about it -- I thought shingles was one of those things like berri-berri and cholera and gout that Brits got in the 19th century. Then my doctor said "you're scheduled for this" and I said "thank you sir may I have another."

But I'm just a Big Pharma sheep...
 
French Rage said:
I actually had it twice. Apparently the first time was so mild it didn't take. Then one day I was acting odd and another parent said it was chicken pox, which my mother didn't believe because I had already had it, but sure enough by that evening it had broken out. So maybe I took yours?
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That happened to my cousin when we were kids. It was very weird.
 
Kepler said:
LOL.

I knew nothing about it -- I thought shingles was one of those things like berri-berri and cholera and gout that Brits got in the 19th century. Then my doctor said "you're scheduled for this" and I said "thank you sir may I have another."

But I'm just a Big Pharma sheep...
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How is your 5G?
 
Kepler said:
I got it last summer and it was nothing. And I am very, very fragile. Maybe you had a really bad reaction?
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More like where it appeared. The side of my head and scalp, so lots of nerve pain right above my eye. Like a stabbing migraine.
 
In MA, new cases down to under 2700 (from a high of over 27,000 (!!!) 17 days ago). Hospitalizations down about 1700 in that time too (down to under 2000). You could question the low case numbers based on lower-than-last-week testing, however the positivity percentage continues to plummet along with the new case count.

This is the pattern we're seeing everywhere with omicron: burn fast, burn hot, overwhelm hospitals and kill a lot of unvaccinated people, and be a mild cold for the vaccinated/boosted.

I don't make predictions anymore, but unless we get whalloped with another variant, things should look pretty good over the next few months. There just isn't much population much without some form of immunity.
 
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Yeah there was something in the Lancet about that very thing. Basically said that by mid February most of the states and a lot of the major countries will be (or will have been) on the downslope by Mid February. Almost every study has shown the South Africa numbers and pattern to be correct.
 
Handyman said:
Yeah there was something in the Lancet about that very thing. Basically said that by mid February most of the states and a lot of the major countries will be (or will have been) on the downslope by Mid February. Almost every study has shown the South Africa numbers and pattern to be correct.
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This is interesting, because IIRC RSA told people not to use their numbers for projections because their population is abnormally young.
 
Kepler said:
This is interesting, because IIRC RSA told people not to use their numbers for projections because their population is abnormally young.
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I recall that too. Explained by the chance that they distinguish between "told" and "cautioned?"
 
"Be careful using our numbers to project your own because we have differing demographics that mean a lot to outcomes" is a good and safe warning, even if the end result is that SA's experience was indicative.
 
Kepler said:
This is interesting, because IIRC RSA told people not to use their numbers for projections because their population is abnormally young.
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That was early on when not much was out there about Omicron. I believe Israel did a study about a month later where the curve was the same and then more and more cities that got hit hard started noticing the trend. RSA was right not to use the numbers as proof, but those numbers have been backed up by pretty much all evidence since then. Omicron spreads so fast it is just insane!

Didn't some doctor say that by the end of next month like half the world would have been infected, most of whom never would know it?
 
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