My wife was a critical care nurse, helped many covid patients. Never caught COVID. I work with the public. Never caught COVID. All my friends and family did.
I am the director of a critical care program in the chair of the division of critical care. I was on the frontlines of Covid from day one. I was taking care of Covid patients back when other doctors literally cowardly, refusing to take care of Covid patients. I have taken care of over 1000 severely ill Covid patients since February 2020. Sadly, hundreds of them did not survive.
I personally caught Covid four times. Each time I continue to work despite being sick because there was nobody that could take my place because we were so short staffed. Each time I would get what was equivalent to something a can to influenza, a really bad upper respiratory infection with fever, chills, and bodyaches. But nothing disabling, thankfully in my case.
Saying that, Covid is very real, some people clearly have much better immune systems for Covid than others. The spike protein is so unique it all but guarantees that is man-made or biologically manufacturing. That spike protein is the reason why some people have such severe autoimmune reactions to Covid and end up very sick or even dying.
I did receive the Covid vaccine three times, and it probably in my case was both warranted and helpful.
I said from day, one in here dating back to a paper I wrote that
@FresnoGator remember as well, that Covid was a wonderfully mild pandemic, compared to others we have had, that I did recommend the vaccine, but that the vaccine should not be mandatory except for those that were actually caring of patients.
I’m on record at that time of saying that otherwise healthy children and young to middle-aged adults, probably did not need the vaccine. I won’t deliver all the reasons for this, but this opinion is based in years of medical, historical, anthropological perspective.
Anyway, bit of a ramble but that’s my addition to this topic.
