After watching my wife suffer with Long Covid over the last three years, I'd rather get my immunity from a vaccine if I can help it.
(Posted her story here before but to summarise - 40yo, healthy, gym 3 to 5 times a week (could lift 50kg), worked all her life in high pressure jobs (she LOVES work) until she paused to look after our two children (who she LOVES looking after). Got covid March 2020 - was pretty ill but not dangerously so. Got better, then about 2 days later went down hill. Over time paid for private heart scans which showed myocarditis. Total exhaustion and brainfog - couldn't even read to our kids let along look after them for nearly 2 years. She's coming out of the worst now and is back at work - but long covid stole 2 years of her life, and she still isn't where she wants to be. She's no 'malingerer' who wants an 'easy life' - she's desperate to have it all again.
That's awful to have to go through, and hopefully she'll make a full recovery with time.
The question though is whether or not being vaccinated would have prevented that. There are claims that it reduces chances for long covid, and claims otherwise. And there are people out there who claim to have ended up with life changing injuries from the shots.
Either way, the major takeaway from this though is that it was indeed bullshit to go after people for forgoing the shots when they'd already gotten covid before they had the chance for a vaccine.
> That’s the conclusion of a meta-study that reviewed a total of 65 studies from 19 different countries, comparing how much a Covid-19 infection protected a person from subsequent reinfection and illness, and how that protection compared to getting vaccinated. The study was published in the Lancet and financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, among others.
