1 in 1300 - Chances of Vaccinated Catching Covid

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

21. One thing that seems clear to me is how widely and wildly different

are different people's reactions to getting Covid. As well as to getting vaccinated.

In the first, getting Covid, reactions range from totally asymptomatic to dying. As for getting vaccinated, some people are quite sick for several days after one or both (in the two-shot regimes) shots. Others, like me, have zero reaction other than the shot itself hurt somewhat.

The huge variance in individual immune systems is at work here. Speaking only for myself, I'm an extraordinarily healthy person with a very robust immune system. I'm 72 years old, rarely sick -- well, okay, I have hay fever but it's annoying, not serious -- never get a flu vaccine, last had flu in maybe 1973, had all the usual childhood diseases for someone my age, and well I could go on and on, but you get the idea. Others reading this are more fragile, get sick more easily, have various health issues. My point is we are all quite different, and it feels as if Covid is somehow capitalizing on that.

I'm not sure I can particularly generalize from this, other than to repeat that this is a function of different people's vastly different immune systems.

I did get the J&J vaccine in March, and I'm honestly feeling as safe from Covid as I can possibly be. I also mask when I go out, and do go out all that often.

I wish good health to all of you.