• Asafum@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      I’m actually the same way, I’m one of those that got myocarditis after the vaccine, but I also understand that nothing is side affect free so while it stinks for me I still 100% support the use of vaccines…

      I mean … Polio anyone? No? Chickenpox? Oh yeah that’s right, vaccines. They actually worked.

        • Piers@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Chickenpox. Ahem. We didn’t have a vaccine for that when I was a child. We just caught it and were miserable for a few weeks.

          I’m sorry to tell you that’s not what happened.

          You had chickenpox for a few weeks whilst the shingles bedded down nice and cosy in your nerves ready to strike again when your immune system is down. It’s not over and it’ll be worse when it comes back.

            • Piers@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              There’s a chicken pox vaccine that prevents you from catching it yes. The shingles vaccine reduces the risk of the shingles you already have breaking through into active infection for about 10 years and then isn’t effective a second time. (Currently) there’s no not-having-shingles once you’ve got it.