I know some folks who think the vaccines are the cause of covid. They have other weird beliefs based on gossip and stories.
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2026
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My mom, unfortunately, falls in that category. She won't get the vaccine but she still wears a mask everyday.
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It's rare but not impossible. A Case Report: Long Post-COVID Vaccination Syndrome During the Eleven Months After the Third Moderna Dose - PMC
Modeling indicates there are more "excess deaths" due to COVID19, roughly 900-1600 per week. See link below.
The best numbers I know of are coming out of https://www.pmc19.com/
Thanks for sharing this website
I just don't understand why all this beautiful data is shared in an image format?!?
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These are insane numbers! Somehow the long covid ones are the ones that scare me the most. An ex colleague of mine got long covid after an infection in 2023-2024 (when covid “was over”). She now has so much brain fog she can’t live independently anymore… scary shit
Indeed.... I know somebody who else has it and is just energy starved like crazy. If she goes anywhere she just crashes in the evening and needs 3 days to recover. Doing anything is basically wondering whether its worth it to crash for 2 days afterwards...
And the research for it has dropped. So its basically an "I hope it passes this month" by the doctors as there's no actual treatment (apparently).
Sounds like ME/CFS. I have that, it sucks dick. Had to go to the doctor in-person on Monday, and it fucked me up until today (Saturday). Normally I do phone consult, but The System says No sometimes. The only treatment is "try not to trigger symptoms and hope you recover" like it's the 1800's 😂 like at least give me opium or something
The research is actually still picking up. Otherwise you are spot on.
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Brain fog doesn't seem like the best term, it needs something more clinical.
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The weekly infections isn't so bad. That means everyone catching it once every 2 years on average. I assumed it would be an annual or semi annual thing.
However, the world is forever changed. I was recently on holiday in Bali with my mother in law. She was quite unwell with cocid like symptoms. Couldn't get a test anywhere. The locals would sell anything if they could make a buck, as they are mostly subsitence living. I assume it's a policy.
I know they are still available in Australia but they are less prevalent and nobody bothers testing or isolating if they are. People think it's just a cold as they don't personally get very sick. The selfishness and lack of scientific and medical understanding in the age of information is an indctment of humanity.
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i track that website, as well as wastewater surveilance to give me some idea of how careful I need to be, week by week.
What metrics do you use? Like, what's the line at which you wear a mask?
I used to go by number of infections per 100,000 but I can't find that anymore and I feel lost.
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COVID broke public health. You can't even get tested where I live. Nobody has any idea of the prevelance.
I've been saying it's endemic for the whole earth for years. Now it's just another thing to test for (in my area) when people come in for upper respiratory issues along like flu and strep.
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You can't simply buy self tests in Canada?
Yes. But compare it to getting the clap. With a sexually transmitted disease they will report it for statistical purposes then contact trace etc. With COVID it's only reportable with a fatality. If you test positive there is no way to get it counted. You just don't know how much is out there.
When I say you can't get tested it's not like there are clinics where you can go in and et tested like you used to. Still can for STBBDs though.
You just don't know how much is out there.
Yeah, I don't. Doesn't mean though that public health officials and researchers simply stopped monitoring the situation. Just like the Flu COVID isn't going to vanish. So what's the point of continuing regular public status updates unless there is another critical situation brewing?
As I've posted in another reply Influenza kills roughly 24,000 people per month directly or indirectly worldwide. That is in a good year. In bad years casualties can rise to as much as 54,000 per month. PER MONTH. Diseases such as Influenza and COVID simply can't be eradicated because they are so easily transmitted and in the majority of cases only cause temporary discomfort.
See why this is a ridiculous post?
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well yeah you can't just get a vaccine here you have to explain a comorbidity.
No you don't.
I've been coughing for 2 weeks now. Nothing serious, but I took a covid test today, out of curiousity. Test was expired. Inconclusive
I'm in the same situation. But my test was negative. Is there any way you can get another self-test?
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Are these the people that don't get vaccinated yearly?
You should ideally be getting vaccinated twice a year.
Doesn't that depend if you are severally immunocompromised?
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Not always. Sometimes people who choose not to get vaccinated infect people who can't get vaccinated, so innocent people die for the selfish choices of others.