Dragonlady
Designing Woman
I wear the mask so those hearing my Chest's loud wheezing and coughing are spared a modicum of assurance they will not get covid which I do not have anyway.When I'm wearing a mask my asthma symptoms calm a little. It has been almost relentless lately.The CDC already said that the statistical difference everyone wearing a mask has made is less than 1%. It's been virtually irrelevant. I don't wear a mask anywhere, ever.I have similar difficulties with various vaccines and have decided to opt out of this one, too. As far as masking is concerned, if I was intended to suck down that much CO2, I'd sprout leaves in a few weeks. Plus, I get headaches if I wear a mask more than a few minutes.I envy people who can take virus shots. The last 2 flu shots I took gave me the flu, and when I took the pneumonia shot, I went into shock for several hours in the er, plus I had full blown pneumonia 5 times in a row for several months. When I read up on the shots given that year, the pneumonia shot contained 6 variations of pneumonia, so I figured I got all 6 of them in a one after another basis for all those months. This year, no shots but I have constant asthma for over the last 10 months. I had an attack of asthma the year before, but it went away after the live oaks pollen disappeared. And I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.The VA is pushing the vaccine, I have no idea which one, to all us veterans, but it's a HARD PASS for me.Hombre andI got our first shot of the COVID vaccine today. So far so good. Zero side effects noted. No hair growing on our toes or anything. I wavered getting it reading so many alarming things on social media, but honestly many many of our friends and kin have now had the shots with no problems whatsoever. And since we are first in line as caretaker for my 94-year-old aunt and our heart transplant friend, and our weekly 42 partners are among the extremely high risk group, so we decided we would get the shots just in case they actually work. One more defense not to infect any of the high risk people.
Leaked Documents Reveal Major Concerns About Early Batches Of Pfizer mRNA Vaccine - The True Reporter
Reading some of those illustrious offerings from your source, I can offer this bit of advice: Don't believe everything you read.
I think most of us think pretty critically on these things, and I don't fault anybody for being cautious. I have read all the downsides reported from wherever and also the upsides being reported wherever, and made a calculated decision that the risk was less getting the vaccine than not getting it for me. That may or may not be true for others though.
But anyway, welcome to the Coffee Shop odanny. Be sure to read over the OP to see what we're all about here and then keep right on joining in. First timers to the Coffee Shop receive a complimentary beverage:
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I don't think I am going for any more flulike shots including the covid vaccine. I did all the charity work I could for the last 50 years, so I'm ready to meet my maker should if wearing a mask in public fail to keep me safe. I just hope He will be forgiving of any unknown errors I may have unwittingly made in my life of hard work and long retirement falls, too. It's getting late. Hope everyone has a lovely weekend and good health ahead.
You have a great week and good health.
It's a hard pass on the biolab DNA altering mRNA shot for me too. It'll be interesting to see what happens a year, two years, three, etc, to those that got it. Can't be good... just my thoughts.
I have a type of asthma that is exercise induced. The attacks don't last long and are abated just by being still for a minute or two. But the masks tend to trigger them somewhat--I find myself gasping for air in situations it doesn't happen if I don't wear a mask.
I had to go to the gynocologist last week for a biopsy. At the hospital door, the guy in the glass booth asked me if I had any difficulty breathing, shortness of breath, coughing, nausea, or diarrhea. I said yes to all of the above, and none of them related to covid.
Every time I cough in the grocery store, I try to hide it and if anyone gives me the "look", I just say "allergies and asthma".