She’s never mentioned this before and I see the new shingles vaccine arrived in 2017. Quick search tells me they got rid of the old vaccine and this new one has some nasty side effects. Also I see some info about the Covid vaccine possibly causing shingles in some people? The conversation was about vaccines, she asked me if I’m totally against vaccines or just Covid vaccine. I told her I want to wait and see on the Covid. Then she brought up the Shingles vax. It kind of felt like……if we can’t get them to take the Covid vax, let’s see if they’ll take the Shingles vax…….
Edit: based on responses, could the shingles vaccine be a contributing factor to those who died with/from covid? How many who died from Covid also had the shingles vaccine? It’s for people over 60 so would be a similar demographic.
It it covid causing shingles?
I submit shingles are 2° to the SAR-CoV-2/flu infections.
Ever see people get fever blisters when they're all stressed out? Same thing.
With a weakened immune system and stress, it will cause a shingles outbreak easily. Saw it very often. After an emotional or physical stress. Like after a death stress.
my understanding is that lots of people have the shingles virus in their system, but that under normal conditions their immune system will prevent them from getting a rash (outward symptoms).
When covid or any other major disease strikes, the immune system is stressed or weakened and a shingles rash may develop.
Same thing with getting shedded upon with spike proteins... immune system is under attack so the shingles might appear.
Bob Beck had a good system for keeping the immune system strong when it is under attack: https://www.bobbeck.com/ . It worked in the 90s and it still works today...
The chicken pox virus/ Herpes zoster never leaves after contracting it.
It goes and lies dormant in our basal root ganglia, which is in our spinal cord, located in the back.
Thats why the shingles rash will sometimes wrap around the torso.
Plus, you can have shingles more than once, with or without a vaccine. I had the first vaccine because everyone in my family eventually had shingles at least once and impressed on me how miserable they were. Didn't notice a thing. Then the second vax came along, I had the first shot and my arm hurt for months and that was the end of that. I don't think we know enough about shingles, and after this year we don't know enough about vaccines either. Guess it's research time.
Exposure to children with chicken pox is the natural "booster" to shingles in adults. Now that kids don't get natural chicken pox, people aren't getting the exposure that helps boost their own immune system from their kids, grandkids, nephews, nieces, neighborhood kids, etc. Now shingles is on the rise. And another excuse to create another vaccine, one with harmful side effects and reactions.
Science shot itself in the foot to create a vaccine for a childhood disease that is mild when contacted in young age.