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Sandy's avatar
1dEdited

Thanks for this thorough piece of updated information. My heart is heavy as all of the grandchildren are returning to school in the next couple of weeks, unprotected, like lambs to the slaughter. Now the sicknesses begin. I spent as much time as I could all summer packing in as many memories as my energy level would allow. But now I have to watch them suffer. I have a picture from last Christmas eve of a granddaughter looking so ill (she had COVID) sitting next to her unopened gifts. One grandson confided in me that frequently he is exhausted all day after a good night's sleep. Another was sick both times he took the ACT earlier this year.

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Joe Doe's avatar

Idiots. Me, no injection, no covid. Ever. Fucking stupid clowns that you are still believing the bullshit after more than 5 years. Wtf

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Agapeocordis 's avatar

Now you know why I walk around with deep seated rage and despair as close companions every damn day when seeing patients. Superb article, maybe your best one in a long line of brilliant ones. Public health and politicians all over the damn world have failed their citizens terribly, and contributed to the rise of the anti science viewpoint. I KNEW about Long COVID in early 2021, probably sooner, and watched with mounting horror as complications grew and grew, along with the increasing efforts to hide data, and outright lie. Thank you so very much for having the courage to inform. You have my deepest respect and admiration.:))

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Theresa's avatar

Well- having worked in public health 2019-21, it’s not the fault of public health workers- it’s governors, whom the public health workers report to.

Governors decide who lives and who dies. And guess what- no lives matter in America.

Americans chose this response to covid. They wanted to go to bars, restaurants, concerts, sports games, wanted kids out of the house, etc.

Even my friend who is 83 with severe asthma and who has had 2 aits from covid refuses to mask. Same with my friend with stage 4b lung cancer.

My son hasn’t been boosted in years. Only 1 of my friends protects herself, as she is immunocompromised.

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Joe Doe's avatar

You will pay in the next life for all your sins, for promoting a poisonous serum that killed and maimed so many.

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Agapeocordis 's avatar

Do us all a favor, and go away, troll.

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Joe Doe's avatar
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The only ones going away, and straight to hell, are those that pushed the injections while being so stupid to take them as well. Not much time left before paying for all of it. Tic tac tic tac hearth attack. That would be way to easy for you. Maybe you'll get a slow developing really hurting cancer or even better, AIDS, via a destroyed immunity system. :)))))

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Michael's avatar

I was diagnosed with Covid in March 2020. It was llkely the original A or B strains that had come over from China and were spreading on the West Coast at the time. The C strain had gotten to America via Europe and was the early strain that was vexing the East Coast. I picked up my case from being a recovering surgical patient at a large hospital where the first reported case in Oregon was treated at the same time.. It was likely from eating at the hospital cafeteria. No one was wearing masks yet, neither doctors nor staff nor patients and we didn't know yet about social distancing or fomites. So there we were all jammed together breathing on each other- a super-spreader situation and sure enough many of the staff and doctors fell ill there and the staffing shortages have never completely recovered even now five years later. I could go on at length about those early years and how were all in the dark back then, kind of learning as we went along but will spare your readers. This all should be ancient history for me, but I drew the short straw and got the long form with all its horrible sequelae which made my life miserable until about 2023 when they started to fade away (though episodically popping back up but with ever diminishing strength). By 2024 the symptoms were 80% gone and now only two remain. The point is that the long form is worse than the disease itself which is intense but short. I got cardiac complications from it which required eventual surgery and there was permanent loss of some lung function. It turned my life upside down. My advice is to mask up and get vaxxed and boostered and please don't let your kids get it.. it's a life changer and not in any good way. It seems like ancient history but new mutations are constantly appearing and one may have your family's name on it. Play it safe, especially if anyone on your family is immunocompromised.

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Joe Doe's avatar

Cardiac complications from the injections clown. No one uninjected gets long covid or any complications from it.

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CarpeLibrum CatLover's avatar

I didn’t lose faith in vaccines. I lost faith in the compromised public health system, its corrupt owners in the political class and the private sector, and the majority of our news media options.

All of them have destroyed the public trust and have made the truth of anything they say completely unknowable.

I don’t bother to pay attention to anything the CDC says now. They don’t do science there anymore. They do bullshit like homeopathy or similar woo. The “‘power’ of prayer,” probably, at this point. I don’t know. I don’t bother to keep up with it anymore.

I’m not being my own investigative reporter, attempting to fact-check every lie or half-truth or real truth that comes out of this corrupt system from multiple quarters, just to stay alive in a dystopia.

I’m just not equipped to do that. And they’re the ones who made it impossible to figure out with is it is not self-serving disinformation versus unbiased fact, and whom to trust or ignore.

The thing that bothers me most is the idea that I could contract it and not know it and accidentally transmit it to others. But now that they’ve made sound protocols unknowable, the only way for me to prevent that risk is to assume I have it at all times and live my life accordingly, which isn’t feasible.

I just don’t see that there’s a great deal I can do about it personally if I don’t have anyone of expertise in a public health realm I can rely on to advise me.

No one in charge of this place and its very key institutions gives a damn about the consequences of completely destroying public trust in the integrity of them. Not just when it comes to public health but in general.

Add the toxicity of the disinformation engines, deep fakes, grifters, and frauds to that, coupled with an apparent unwillingness of the state to do anything but either perpetrate or otherwise facilitate ruination or the perception of it, and people will eventually disengage out of sheer hopelessness as a rational response.

🤷🏻‍♀️ 😢

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Theresa's avatar

I don’t share air outside of my house. It is super easy. I can’t give any one covid, cause I always wear a n95. It’s more comfortable than high heels.

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CarpeLibrum CatLover's avatar

I decided months back I’d essentially replace the CDC with the Canadian Public Health Agency to the extent applicable for whatever might come up that I formerly would have looked to the CDC for guidance on. That’s an imperfect geographic fit, but it will still cover a lot of important information in a general.

I also know medical professionals and others with scientific credentials that are relevant and whose objectivity I regard as trustworthy, so I take their advice too.

I tend to just ditch the advice of doctors who bring up pseudoscience claptrap, and I to discriminate against consulting DOs where feasible, because that’s where the claptrap has tended to come from in the past to the extent it has, though thankfully that’s not been common. That’s not as much of a thing with MDs I think, but it seems to be not too uncommon among RN nurses I’ve known or have run across.

When I visit someone who’s in a hospital, or who’s known to be in very weakened and vulnerable otherwise, I wear an N95 in case I’m infected and don’t know it, to protect the potential risk to others. And of course if I’m actively ill with anything, I avoid exposing people like that.

All of that is very imperfect, but it’s the best I can do in the circumstances.

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Joe Doe's avatar

Dont you worry. The state will do plenty of things about it. When the time is right. And they will be able to do it because there are plenty of idiots like yourself with no ability to truly think that will swallow hook line and sinker everything the state sells you. As you did with the fake pandemic and the deadly poisonous injections.

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CER's avatar

My personal philosophy for previous vaccines has probably always been flawed, but please explain if this can be applied to the current situation. So I had always considered the COVID 19 vaccines we were offered to be "last seasons" just because the variants moved so fast. But I would get a vaccine twice a year in any case just because it's better to have some immunity to a corona virus than no immunity. Would it still be worth it to get last year's vaccine if it's available?

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Mary's avatar
1dEdited

I’d like to know the answer to that also. I just assumed when they came out in the fall, it would be a newer version.

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Theresa's avatar

I recommend asking on zero covid

On reddit.

Or, asking T.A.C.T.

I get a shot every 6 mos. I would not trust that any shot has been updated in the usa.

My last shot was novavax at Costco.

I will look for a novavax booster this fall.

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Joe Doe's avatar

:)))))))) Do yourself a favor and stop getting poisoned. Me, no vaccine, no covid ever. None of those unijected get long covid. I wonder why...

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Elizabeth's avatar

One problem is the US doesn’t look at other countries infection rates, prevention protocols, and reinfection rates. WHO may be a reliable source of information. The current department of HHS is not reliable. One thing that we should insist on is national oversight by a reliable independent agency. Our pharmaceutical industry is corrupt. Overall public health concerns are not their priority. It’s a global problem that is going to take global cooperation and reliable science. In the meantime wearing a mask could help and not hurt. We live in a world with communication capabilities and need to stop only comparing our healthcare system with our healthcare system. Especially now.

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Theresa's avatar

Who has lied since 2019. Tact is a good source of info.

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Joe Doe's avatar

Put two masks you fucking stupid sheep.

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Michael Campi's avatar

The angry people came to this party. I wonder if they go looking or just happen across rational thought, or are they bots. Excellent post. I'm continually impressed by the amount of research and time you put in.

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MT's avatar

Thank you so much for this scathing indictment of our politicans and the media's complicity in prolonging and exacerbating this pandemic. It angers and saddens me that we have no access to updated vaccines or that most of the time when i go to the grocery store i might see just one masked person. I feel grateful that you are here continuing to do the research and writing to keep us all informed. You are doing a better job than mainstream media. I wish defector would hire you to do a lucrative column on the covid latest each month.

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Joe Doe's avatar

What fuckjng pandemic twat? Even the perpetrators figured out most of the idiots won't take more.than 3 or 4 doses and stopped pushing the fake narrative.

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Zach's avatar

😡

So if covid keeps circulating and there are no more vaccines - which seems to be the status - is the risk of Long Covid the same every (subsequent) time you contract the virus?

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Jessica's avatar
1dEdited

What I know for sure is that Covid infections are bad for you in every possible way. My take is that if we can't get vaccines anymore, then everyone's risk of Long Covid goes up that much more. Your risk for Long Covid goes up with every infection, even without the vaccine madness. What a horrible timeline. It's why we do masks, nose sprays, air purifiers, HOCL, everything.

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Zach's avatar

Yeah, I've accepted that the regime wants to kill us. It's just a question of how well they'll be able to.

I've always got the vaccine and boosters, but I also suspect I had covid once, and if so, it wasn't that bad and I don't think I've had long covid symptoms.

People would like to think, oh that means I'll probably be ok, now that it's gone around so much. But the research you're sharing here suggests that may not be the case.

Anyway I wasn't really asking for me but more wondering if the incidence of long covid is going to just keep increasing throughout the population. It sucks and as you've demonstrated here, both political parties are to blame because our health care system, and our values system in this country, are fucked.

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Theresa's avatar

And have been since 1492. Once the government saw that “minorities” were dying from covid at higher rates than white people- everything opened up.

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Zach's avatar

💯🎯

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Joe Doe's avatar

Your immune system is toast you braindead sheep. Gone. Fucked. You are basically going to an early grave due to your utter stupidity.

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Zach's avatar

Ah, you've updated your reply comment. Thanks!

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Joe Doe's avatar

:)))))) no vaccine, no covid. You are fucked sheep

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Joe Doe's avatar

For those injected there are greater risks than long covid. Fast moving cancers and hearth attacks. But what you twats deserve is nothing more than slow and prolonged AIDS

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JenG's avatar

Once again, you’ve hit the nail on the head. My democrat family has never understood my fury with the Biden administration about this topic, and now- I’m the ONLY masker left in public spaces. Our private spaces are full of air filters, and I’ve invested in a Sterilray Sabre which use in my classroom. One of my HCW daughters and I have had a major falling out over my continuing mitigation, meanwhile I’m fruitlessly trying to find locations for Novavax boosters for the fall. It’s the one thing I’ve been able to get hubs to agree to keep up to date on. It’s a bitter pill.

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Truth Seeking Missile's avatar

Only absolute fools take covid shots.

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JesseBessee's avatar

Only absolute fools oppose vaccines.

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Joe Doe's avatar

I think we need to invent a new word for the morons that still take them in 2025.

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Joe Doe's avatar

How the feck did I find this? There still are idiots getting the injections in 2025? And more than that, actively looking for them... You are the most brainwashed clowns that ever existed. Good riddance! Tic tac tic tac. :))))))))

Ps: don't forget to wear your underwear over your face when you leave home. Put two pairs for better protection, sheep :))))

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BillS's avatar

I've been thru the same run-around with CVS. My last two vaxes were NOVAVAX. There's no information that I can find about a forthcoming update. The pharmacists and my docs don't have have a clue.

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Sue Mosher's avatar

I was hoping to be able to stick with Novavax myself, but now that the Novavax COVID vaccine has full FDA approval, it seems to be even harder to locate. My recollection is that the company used to have a finder tool on their website, but I couldn’t find one when I looked a couple of months ago, and various internet searches for Nuvaxovid — the new brand name — turned up nothing. Facing some extended travel, I finally caved and reached out to my provider and got Pfizer, which was all they had. At least it was the latest version — I saw the vial. When I made the appointment, I was told that all their Novavax doses had expired the previous month and that they didn’t expect to have the new Novavax until the fall at the earliest.

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BillS's avatar

Thank you Sue. CVS also told me their stock had expired about a month ago.

Confirming what you were told about availability, I found this on the Novavax investor relations web page.

"Novavax expects to be ready for the commercial delivery of the 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccine formula in the U.S. this fall in partnership with Sanofi."

https://ir.novavax.com/press-releases/2025-05-19-U-S-FDA-Approves-BLA-for-Novavaxs-COVID-19-Vaccine

I sure hope it's available then. I've had vaxes using Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax. No reactions from any formulation other than a little injection site soreness from Pfizer and Moderna, none from two Novavax jabs.

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crazicorgi's avatar

Yes, I got a booster in July at Costco's pharmacy. They were getting pretty low on supply and we were lucky to get Pfizer. No Moderna, no Novavax, and the pharmacist had no idea when or if they'd be restocked with any vaccine this fall. Oddly enough, this last Pfizer booster didn't knock me down for 36 hours like it usually does. Maybe it was reaching the end of its potency. I hope not.

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Joe Doe's avatar

And I thought I knew some idiots that were only injected 4 or 5 times. All the idiots I know stopped taking them but here I found the greatest mass of idiots ever assembled. It's so nice to mock you suckers. Payback time for all the pain you caused with your stupid consent at totalitarian measures being imposed on those that can think on their own. You'll reap what you sow clowns. Death and pain and a totalitarian dystopia for your kids.

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Joe Doe's avatar

Take them all. They are all safe and very very effective. At culling the sheep.

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ADWH's avatar

I am sorry you were told that. The pharmacist was surely knowledgeable enough to know there is no updated vaccine yet.

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Michael's avatar

To clear up some possible misconceptions of the more vociferous of the anti-vax posters. President Trump while in office ordered Operation Warp Speed specifically to find a vaccination for Covid. Further, in January 2021 while still in office he received a vaccination for Covid though a public announcement was not made at the time. In December of that same year he disclosed he had received a Covid booster shot at a public meeting where he received boos from the audience.

All the invective some of our friends have used, like 'sheep' 'clowns' etc. could be rightfully applied to the former and current president. But I doubt they would do so.

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Thomas was lost's avatar

Thanks for this Jessica, but things in my vaccine world are not simple. I live in the UK, and I appear to be one of the 1/2700 who were adversely affected by an mRNA Covid booster shot, probably because I was fit and healthy and took no rest after the jab, which it now transpires caused adverse reactions in some. I now await open heart surgery. My GP is taking my case very seriously and is reporting back to Pfizer. I am no conspiracy nut, but I am a scientist. And it is now clear to me that a few of us ARE at risk (1/2700) and hence the whole vaccine story becomes complicated. I now refuse, (with my GPs blessing) any mRNA vaccine. That said, I’m having a non-mRNA Shingles vaccine next week! And I still think JFK Jr. is one of the biggest disasters of the fascist coup.

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Thomas was lost's avatar

Jeez, it’s been a while since I read such arrogant intolerance. Very male.

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Joe Doe's avatar

1/2700 :))))) who the feck believes that lie? Oh, sorry, I forgot, it's from the same charlatans that sold you the safe and effective bs.

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Michael's avatar

Perhaps you had forgotten, Joe, that RFK Jrs wife, the actress Cheryl Hines, was reported to have requested that guests at a holiday party at their home be vaccinated or tested for COVID-19. Look it up my friend.

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Joe Doe's avatar

Who the fuck cares what jfk jr wife did? He is a crook. Thinking people don't have leaders they follow without thought. As most of you do. Go get another booster. I believe it's quite popular on this stack. :))))

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Michael's avatar

Thanks for the good advice, I will along with my yearly flu shot. Stay healthy friend.

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Joe Doe's avatar

Yearly flu shot? Wtf is that? Never took one and I don't get the flu. Like ever. How come? I bet though you get it at least twice per year, except ofc during the plandemic years when you got only covid :))))))

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Thomas was lost's avatar

Thank you for your considered opinion. You are NOT the one faced with the reality I’m faced with as I wait for surgery. I do not consider my health professionals as charlatans. There is a thing called critical thinking which keeps us aware of different opinions and interpretations. That skill has been lost as we sink into confrontation and self opinionated bunkers and echo chambers. Please do go and feck yourself with your intolerance.

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Joe Doe's avatar

Sure sure... You got maimed yet still believe their lies and preach critical thinking to someone wio was smart enough to avoid the poison. Whatever. Good luck.

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