What Covid-19 vaccines have you had?
I've had it thrice. It isn't dangerous for most healthy people and is basically just a new flu strain .... a fact that has been denied by the experts to rationalise their behaviour and errors. I suppose you can't blame the type of people who panic for panicking but I wonder whether the lockdowns saved ANY lives at all. It's quite possible that they didn't.
No, it certainly did not. That is shocking ignorance about the objective facts. Do you base your views entirely on social media memes from unreliable sources?
I know I had Covid based on symptoms and level of sickness (unconfirmed no tests at the time, I was negative on a flu test) Jan. 2020 and was very sick for 3+ months (although not hospitalized, to the doctor and two different treatments of prescribed antibiotics no help). I had 2 Pfizer vaccines when available about a year later. About a year after that I caught Covid (again) confirmed by test, and had relatively minor illness, feeling good after 10 days. Since then I've had a Moderna covid bivalent booster.
We know through either direct friendship or first person from a direct friend, in excess of 40+ people who died of covid complications. We know of only 1 who had a covid vaccine reaction and she survived. Her sister was told not to take the vaccine because of that. The sister just survived an unvaccinated severe (not hospitalized & still recovering) covid infection which turned into pneumonia.
One of my wife's best friends (early 60's had just run a marathon in July 2022) died mid-August 2022 of severe covid complications in hospital. Her mother had lived with my wife's friend's family, and she originally caught covid. My wife's friend cared for her mother at home while she was sick with covid. The mother got so sick she went into hospital. My wife's friend followed into hospital and was so sick she never knew her mother died, before she died too (both in hospital, died 1 week apart). Survived by husband & 3 sons. Very sad.
If you are older & at risk with health complications, consult your doctor to get vaccinated. It can be a life or death decision. Very very sad for all of the covid deaths.
Unfortunately, your wife's friend may have died BECAUSE she ran the marathon. The marathon and her death were about a month apart.
It's difficult to see how you could have missed the fact that she died from Covid complications, like millions of others. None of whom died of Covid complications (or anything resembling them) after marathons before the pandemic. The only possible way the marathon could have been a contributing factor is if she caught Covid-19 during or immediately after the marathon in the period when the immune system is suppressed due to the demands of responding to the intense exercise. This only lasts a day or less. Marathon runners generally take a few days off after a race.
In general, one benefit of regular exercise is a stronger immune system. But a larger factor is vaccination - if the unfortunate woman was not vaccinated, that was the main factor for her death (it increased risk by about 10 times not to be vaccinated).
And millions died. While millions of others did not die because their risks had been dramatically reduced by vaccination. That's what the science says, not the pathetic populist science denial.
It really did not. Not more than about one in a million, which is massively dwarfed by the numbers who died as a consequence of NOT getting vaccinated (with risks of death being about 10 times higher for this group, and millions of people dying globally).