I was really good about wearing my mask. Even got vaccinated the first chance I got. But last Friday I went shopping and couldn't find my mask, i thought I'll just pick one up at the store. Well the store didn't have any masks. I am going for a covid test here in an hour as I can't smell or taste since yesterday and have had a headache since Tuesday. 🙃
Edit: test came back negative, now I have to figure out why I can't taste or smell. Probably just cancer
Vaccines don’t prevent COVID entirely, but they do reduce your chances of infection and reduce the severity if you are infected.
I’d explain in more detail, but let’s be real, this information is plastered all over the internet at this point. So I’m skeptical that this is actually a genuine question asked in good faith.
Sadly there are a lot of things all over the Internet that keep fueling ideas that the vaccine will hurt you more than Covid. It’s why most constantly ask others to look towards what health officials say about the vaccine than a random Facebook post.
Vaccines do not and have never completely prevented infections. For many the immune training vaccines give allow your body to outrun the virus and shut it down before it can get a hold. Delta is nasty because it’s better at replicating (running faster) and it can avoid some of your immune responses so it takes longer to shut it down if you’re vaccinated.
It does not 100% prevent it. Especially with stronger variants out there. It does however, give your immune system a head start so if you get it you will fight it off quicker and better. The vast majority of hospitalized are unvaccinated. Like 95%
It greatly reduces your risk of COVID or seriousness, but can’t be 100%.
They're not 100% effective. If you are around situations where you continously come in contact with the virus, there remains a chance you could still catch it. Your body will know how to fight it however and your symptoms will be lessened and it will have a greater chance of being non life threatening. The more people vaccinated or masked, the less chance of coming into contact with the virus and rolling the dice on that slim chance.
Basically, it reduces the risk of catching it and passing it to others, massively. Furthermore, if you do end up with Covid, it massively reduces the intensity/severity of the illness. This is why a country like the U.K. is having high positive cases but relatively low deaths, due to a lot of people catching it but fewer people being seriously ill with it, and why the majority of people in hospital with covid are unvaccinated.
No vaccine is 100%, but if it can reduce the chances of catching the virus abs limit the damage it does, it can hopefully be reduced to a less severe illness (think of how the annual flu jab works)
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u/Idonoteatass 16d ago edited 16d ago
I was really good about wearing my mask. Even got vaccinated the first chance I got. But last Friday I went shopping and couldn't find my mask, i thought I'll just pick one up at the store. Well the store didn't have any masks. I am going for a covid test here in an hour as I can't smell or taste since yesterday and have had a headache since Tuesday. 🙃
Edit: test came back negative, now I have to figure out why I can't taste or smell. Probably just cancer