1- "I was just one more example of our country’s tug and pull between fantasies of a post-covid summer and the realities of our still-raging pandemic, in which even the vaccinated can get sick."
Anatomy of a breakthrough case (cont).
khn.org/news/article/f…
Anatomy of a breakthrough case (cont).
khn.org/news/article/f…
2- "I had a breakthrough case of covid-19 — despite my two shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the second one in April."
"Where did I get it? Who knows."
At least this reporter doesn't scream at the unvaccinated.
"Where did I get it? Who knows."
At least this reporter doesn't scream at the unvaccinated.
3- "We had flown across the country, seen friends, stayed at a hotel, eaten indoors and, yes, even gone to a long-delayed wedding with other vaccinated people."
Weddings and reunions, every time.
Weddings and reunions, every time.
4- "It was a miserable five days. My legs and arms ached, my fever crept up to 103 and every few hours of sleep would leave my sheets drenched in sweat. I’d drop into bed exhausted after a quick trip to the kitchen."
This doesn't sound mild.
This doesn't sound mild.
5- "To sum it up, I’d put my breakthrough case of covid right up there with my worst bouts of flu. Even after my fever broke, I spent the next few weeks feeling low."
Definitely not the sniffles.
Definitely not the sniffles.
6- "You probably would have gotten much sicker if you had not been vaccinated,” Dr. Francesca Torriani, an infectious-disease physician at the University of California-San Diego, explained to me recently."
Of course. What ever it is, it always would have been worse w/o vax.
Of course. What ever it is, it always would have been worse w/o vax.
7- "The reality is breakthrough cases are becoming more common."
It's undeniable, hence the continuing booster debate.
It's undeniable, hence the continuing booster debate.
8- "But it was easy for me — and I’m not the only one — to grab onto the idea that, after so many months of trying not to get covid, the vaccine was, more or less, the finish line. And that made getting sick from the virus unnerving."
"unnerving" for most people becomes anger.
"unnerving" for most people becomes anger.
9- And that anger gets re-directed by the State and their Media sock puppets at their fellow citizens, instead of at the people who unleashed the virus & the imperfect drugs that can't stop it.
10- The article goes with the same general theme - COVID is here to stay and the vax's are at best an imperfect deterrent (versus a silver bullet). It's worth reading.
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