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DrugDiscovery's avatar

Brilliant string of facts! My employer (I am at the Not So Great White North) never imposed mandates, but my small union was itching to support mandatory jabbination. They set up an anonymous survey... Which I used to my advantage by filling multiple times from a variety of IP addresses (VPNs are great!). Really an army of one! Despite a majority support, the union did not support the mandate. Full disclosure: I also played the pro-mandate role, and used some unpleasant and uncomfortable rhetoric, which must have given them pause. War is war.

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I'm a physician. Full disclosure: I had the single shot J&J vaccine in March 2021 but I haven't had an mRNA shot and I don't ever intend to get one. By the current guidelines, I'm considered unvaccinated.

A couple of months ago, I got Covid (for the first time). Two docs and a pharmacist I know caught it at about the same time. They're all vaccinated and boosted as many times as they could be. For one doc and the pharmacist, it was their second go-round. For the other doc, it was his first. All of us recovered uneventfully and were under the weather for about the same length of time.

The other three are convinced that the fact that they're "vaccinated and boosted," is the only reason that they got better. It doesn't seem to matter that I recovered just as completely as they did and in the same amount of time. It doesn't matter that there's no sign that the unvaccinated are having any worse outcomes than those with multiple jabs.

The icing on the cake is that their favorite topic of conversation (sometimes it seems, their only topic) is when to get the next booster. Should they get it as soon as they can? Or should they wait a few months and try to coast on their natural immunity for a while? These are smart people. These are medical professionals. I actually respect them. But when it comes to Covid, they're completely irrational.

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