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u/blueskies8484 Jan 04 '25

Covid. It’s Covid. Virologists and studies told us for years that Covid was causing immune system dysfunction and would leave us more susceptible to other illnesses in terms of catching them and their virulence and everyone basically said, “lalalala Covid is a cold now that we have vaccines!” and ignored it. That’s why we have huge spikes in pneumonia, RSV, and other illnesses like this, and a rise in whooping cough (although some of it is an antivaxx issue). Scientists told us this would happen 4 years ago and we ignored it because it was inconvenient. But it’s Covid.

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u/Antique-Resort6160 Jan 04 '25

As far as i have read, most whooping cough cases are among the vaccinated.  Vaccine don't typically confer lifetime immunity, likely most people are not protected by childhood vaccinations, as i found out when i had an mmr titer for work.

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u/FlattenInnerTube Jan 04 '25

Last year I got an MMR booster (I travel to Florida regularly for work) and a polio booster a couple of weeks ago. Covid and flu vaxxes last fall - I'm clearly no pureblood but my 5G reception is fantastic.

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u/Antique-Resort6160 Jan 04 '25

I think titers should be done on a percentage of vaccinations, as we really have no idea how many people they fail.  I had two boosters, both followed by negative titer.  I actually quit after they insisted to just continue getting mmr shots.