If you have reason to believe your body can't tolerate the mRNA vaccines, some alternatives to discuss with a GP might include
* Evushield -- pre exposure prophylaxis if you're at risk and the mainline vaccines don't work
* Paxlovid -- get outcomes comparable to conventionally vaccinated people if you take shortly after infection, beware "rebound" / second course, metallic taste and a lot of poop
* Monoclonal antibodies after confirmed infection -- probably bebtelovimab right? Hard to keep a handle on this with variants.
* Indoor air quality -- try to shop at businesses that have 3+ air changes per hour of MERV13+ filtered or outdoor air (there are healthy building stickers like LEED but they haven't really taken off)
* Rely on others' immunity -- I'm still unsure whether vaccinated people are less contagious? If so even if you're medically unable to participate in vaccination, other people are protecting you in aggregate
* Just accept the possibility of a painful death in the future -- it could happen for any of us right? Who knows? We live with lots of risks.
Wow. Five cases of excessive yawning correlated with vaccine administration. Out of millions of doses administered.
We should totally pause on the rollout of the vaccine, while we do a proper risk assessment on that.
Because on the one hand, we have the risk that unchecked spread of the disease will lead to more dangerous mutations and we could be faced with a complete collapse of healthcare capacity as it is overwhelmed by severe cases.
And on the other, a handful of people might yawn a lot.
In fact that risk balance is too tricky to be left up to the experts. Individuals should do their own personal risk assessment, based on how annoying they find it to yawn, versus how much hospital capacity they assume is available in their region.
Unchecked spread of viruses leads to less dangerous mutations because the more dangerous ones burn through victims too quickly for it to spread very far.
That’s analogous to saying that “vaccination isn’t a great strategy from the perspective of those with adverse reactions.” In another thread, you did not accept that line of reasoning. Why is it valid in this case?
Sorry to hear about the experience :(
If you have reason to believe your body can't tolerate the mRNA vaccines, some alternatives to discuss with a GP might include
* Evushield -- pre exposure prophylaxis if you're at risk and the mainline vaccines don't work
* Paxlovid -- get outcomes comparable to conventionally vaccinated people if you take shortly after infection, beware "rebound" / second course, metallic taste and a lot of poop
* Monoclonal antibodies after confirmed infection -- probably bebtelovimab right? Hard to keep a handle on this with variants.
* Indoor air quality -- try to shop at businesses that have 3+ air changes per hour of MERV13+ filtered or outdoor air (there are healthy building stickers like LEED but they haven't really taken off)
* Rely on others' immunity -- I'm still unsure whether vaccinated people are less contagious? If so even if you're medically unable to participate in vaccination, other people are protecting you in aggregate
* Just accept the possibility of a painful death in the future -- it could happen for any of us right? Who knows? We live with lots of risks.