While both the video and a lot of the comments here are very funny, I do have to mention this is actually a quite serious and personal issue that has affected my life and I'm sure plenty of others.
My lady got jabbed to travel and see her Dad for the first time in almost 15 years - I really tried to push her from doing it, but other members of her family had her ear at the time. She regrets it a LOT now.
At least she only got the first one, the two parter. To my great horror, she did start manifesting some odd symptoms 6 to 8 months later. I had been feeling off myself, despite having caught the coof very shortly after it first appeared in early 2020. (and man, let me tell you, that shit was AWFUL - if any of you caught it early on like me, you will know, we had a WAY WAY more virulent and debilitating sickness than ANYTHING like others who caught other types later on)
Because of my own issues, and the natural remedies that had helped my lingering symptoms beginning to be ineffective, I got Ivermectin for myself and started taking it "prophylactically" every so often.
So when she started to have issues, I immediately spilled the beans to her, told her everything I knew and argued with her to take it. She refused for a few days, before finally getting so tired of being sick and tired and everything getting worse that she agreed and went for it.
I don't think I'll ever forget that. It seemed like literally in minutes (more realistically it was a few hours) she came to me, wide-eyed and terrified. She was feeling so much better, she told me - all her aching had suddenly dropped away, her skin was clearing up, it was just unbelievable.
But I think the most powerful thing of all was the so-called "brain fog" element. She came out of it and realized she'd been having this for a very long time - sort of like a dull migraine that never ends, to the point that you're pissy and upset without knowing you are.
I'd experienced something similar when first taking Ivermectin to fix the symptoms I'd been dealing with. It IS quite LITERALLY like coming out of a fog -- and I had a distinct notion that I had been VERY SICK for a long time, and I hadn't known it AT ALL. Not until I took this medicine that made me feel so much better. She had the exact same experience and like me, initially she felt terrified. There's no words for it, if you've felt that godawful fog lift off of you and the sudden realization of how impairing and debilitating it was, you know its an extremely emotional and fucking scary moment. She could not stop talking about how instantaneous and drastic the changes were for weeks afterward.
I realize that it seems like I've been off topic discussing this and nothing to do with intimacy or sex, but I thought it was important background as I'm coming to it now. We are both sensitive, empathetic and watch each other closely: we can almost suss out when the other isn't feeling well with some unexplainable sixth sense. Some of you will know what I'm talking about.
Anyways, back from the time I originally got sick and then recovered, we both noticed a drop off in our intimacy and even level of desire to be intimate. There was never an actual issue - like, I didn't her sick or anything, though I was initially kind of terrified that I might.
But when she got the jab, and for a long time afterward, there was a total and complete drop off. More than just knowing about risks or shedding or anything like that, if you can understand what I mean.
It's almost as though some innate part of our bodies were telling us not to. Like somehow we knew it wouldn't be good, and our natural drive to protect each other was kicking in. Neither of us even retained any interest in it - and while we aren't and never were bunny rabbits exactly, I still felt the dropoff was kind of profound. Fortunately enough, that's not what our relationship is based on anyway, so it wasn't a huge issue for us.
Nowadays though, we're both feeling much better and things are back to normal, or as close to whatever normal was before. And we have no sex life to speak of, which is sort of tragic and disappointing to admit.
That feeling of needing to stay away, the signals, are gone it seems. But left in its wake is a long period of relearned behaviors from what we went through with the jab and the coof, and it seems very difficult to break and return back to the way it was. And while I do realize that I've likely picked up ... well whatever it is just from close contact and viral shedding, I do still think there is the slightest feeling of a phantom danger that still looms for me.
I am curious if anyone else has gone thorough something like this. Its not something easily discussed or even commonly known exactly, so I wouldn't know where else to even start to look for answers.
Its obviously a bit uncomfortable to share my story like this but I'm doing it just in hopes of seeing if anyone else has had these troubles or can relate to any part of what we've gone through. There have to be others, right? I have been wondering for a while now.
Even if you can't, I think it still speaks to how all-encompassing the whole pandemic saga was. It altered and devastated so many aspects of people's lives that I am not sure we will ever be able to sift through the rubble enough to quantify the entire big picture of damages.
Yep there ARE lots of others!! My husband and I were both threatened with losing our jobs if we did not get vaxed. I resisted and ultimately obtained a medical exemption. He could have gotten one too as he has DM2 and we have a very great doc who was willing to provide the exemption. But he let this masculine wiring to provide for the family dominate his decision. I love and respect him for that self sacrificial attitude though! He tried with all his might to do the right thing for us. So folks - don't be so harsh on spouses who do what appears to be the right thing at the time. Hindsight is 20/20. And yes, my health has now been affected greatly by the shedding and I will never be the same either.
Thank you for sharing, its actually a comfort to me that you did. For whatever reason, any thread I read when this topic gets brought up seems like its only people who either BOTH didn't get the jab or singles. Also a lot of comments of people saying things like "If they were so stupid that they got the jab, I wouldn't be with them anyways" or the like.
Its nice to know that there are other people who at least had some idea of the risks and for whatever their reasons made different decisions. I mean, there was certainly a metric fuck ton of mindlessness and ignorance pervading at that time, but I don't think they put in an advertising and fear campaign costing literal billions of dollars to capture THAT segment.
It was for people like us, who had jobs or other situations they needed to take advantage of in order to force us into rationalizing and downplaying the negative consequences so we would do something unusually stupid for our character. I mean, intelligent people do silly, inadvisable things ALL THE TIME - and that's without all the pressures and the weight of the world added to the wrong side of the scales, not to mention the peer pressure.
Not that I'm calling your husband that at all. I completely understand where he was coming from and had I been in the same situation at the time, I'd likely have done the same. Even if you got an exemption back then, the landscape was such that you were made to feel like you might STILL be pushed into it at a later time... we all had NO CLUE of when or if they would ever relent and leave us in peace, without getting it.
You're completely correct that some of the backlash is way too harsh and actually gets pretty cold and downright mean at times. It was a more crucial decision that any of us could have realized in hindsight and it has almost no reflection on who a person is, how intelligent or engaged they are, or what they believe or their character is.
There's a lot of understandable angst and backlash from the unvaxxed, and everyone's situation is different, but sometimes I think some of these people feel like ANYONE who got a jab was some kind of fascist liberal advocate for getting it, and MUST HAVE put pressure on others if they got it themselves. Gotta chill out a little.
Thanks again for sharing your story! It made my day, truly. 😁
(Sorry in advance for being a Debbie downer)
While both the video and a lot of the comments here are very funny, I do have to mention this is actually a quite serious and personal issue that has affected my life and I'm sure plenty of others.
My lady got jabbed to travel and see her Dad for the first time in almost 15 years - I really tried to push her from doing it, but other members of her family had her ear at the time. She regrets it a LOT now.
At least she only got the first one, the two parter. To my great horror, she did start manifesting some odd symptoms 6 to 8 months later. I had been feeling off myself, despite having caught the coof very shortly after it first appeared in early 2020. (and man, let me tell you, that shit was AWFUL - if any of you caught it early on like me, you will know, we had a WAY WAY more virulent and debilitating sickness than ANYTHING like others who caught other types later on)
Because of my own issues, and the natural remedies that had helped my lingering symptoms beginning to be ineffective, I got Ivermectin for myself and started taking it "prophylactically" every so often.
So when she started to have issues, I immediately spilled the beans to her, told her everything I knew and argued with her to take it. She refused for a few days, before finally getting so tired of being sick and tired and everything getting worse that she agreed and went for it.
I don't think I'll ever forget that. It seemed like literally in minutes (more realistically it was a few hours) she came to me, wide-eyed and terrified. She was feeling so much better, she told me - all her aching had suddenly dropped away, her skin was clearing up, it was just unbelievable.
But I think the most powerful thing of all was the so-called "brain fog" element. She came out of it and realized she'd been having this for a very long time - sort of like a dull migraine that never ends, to the point that you're pissy and upset without knowing you are.
I'd experienced something similar when first taking Ivermectin to fix the symptoms I'd been dealing with. It IS quite LITERALLY like coming out of a fog -- and I had a distinct notion that I had been VERY SICK for a long time, and I hadn't known it AT ALL. Not until I took this medicine that made me feel so much better. She had the exact same experience and like me, initially she felt terrified. There's no words for it, if you've felt that godawful fog lift off of you and the sudden realization of how impairing and debilitating it was, you know its an extremely emotional and fucking scary moment. She could not stop talking about how instantaneous and drastic the changes were for weeks afterward.
I realize that it seems like I've been off topic discussing this and nothing to do with intimacy or sex, but I thought it was important background as I'm coming to it now. We are both sensitive, empathetic and watch each other closely: we can almost suss out when the other isn't feeling well with some unexplainable sixth sense. Some of you will know what I'm talking about.
Anyways, back from the time I originally got sick and then recovered, we both noticed a drop off in our intimacy and even level of desire to be intimate. There was never an actual issue - like, I didn't her sick or anything, though I was initially kind of terrified that I might.
But when she got the jab, and for a long time afterward, there was a total and complete drop off. More than just knowing about risks or shedding or anything like that, if you can understand what I mean.
It's almost as though some innate part of our bodies were telling us not to. Like somehow we knew it wouldn't be good, and our natural drive to protect each other was kicking in. Neither of us even retained any interest in it - and while we aren't and never were bunny rabbits exactly, I still felt the dropoff was kind of profound. Fortunately enough, that's not what our relationship is based on anyway, so it wasn't a huge issue for us.
Nowadays though, we're both feeling much better and things are back to normal, or as close to whatever normal was before. And we have no sex life to speak of, which is sort of tragic and disappointing to admit.
That feeling of needing to stay away, the signals, are gone it seems. But left in its wake is a long period of relearned behaviors from what we went through with the jab and the coof, and it seems very difficult to break and return back to the way it was. And while I do realize that I've likely picked up ... well whatever it is just from close contact and viral shedding, I do still think there is the slightest feeling of a phantom danger that still looms for me.
I am curious if anyone else has gone thorough something like this. Its not something easily discussed or even commonly known exactly, so I wouldn't know where else to even start to look for answers.
Its obviously a bit uncomfortable to share my story like this but I'm doing it just in hopes of seeing if anyone else has had these troubles or can relate to any part of what we've gone through. There have to be others, right? I have been wondering for a while now.
Even if you can't, I think it still speaks to how all-encompassing the whole pandemic saga was. It altered and devastated so many aspects of people's lives that I am not sure we will ever be able to sift through the rubble enough to quantify the entire big picture of damages.
Yep there ARE lots of others!! My husband and I were both threatened with losing our jobs if we did not get vaxed. I resisted and ultimately obtained a medical exemption. He could have gotten one too as he has DM2 and we have a very great doc who was willing to provide the exemption. But he let this masculine wiring to provide for the family dominate his decision. I love and respect him for that self sacrificial attitude though! He tried with all his might to do the right thing for us. So folks - don't be so harsh on spouses who do what appears to be the right thing at the time. Hindsight is 20/20. And yes, my health has now been affected greatly by the shedding and I will never be the same either.
Thank you for sharing, its actually a comfort to me that you did. For whatever reason, any thread I read when this topic gets brought up seems like its only people who either BOTH didn't get the jab or singles. Also a lot of comments of people saying things like "If they were so stupid that they got the jab, I wouldn't be with them anyways" or the like.
Its nice to know that there are other people who at least had some idea of the risks and for whatever their reasons made different decisions. I mean, there was certainly a metric fuck ton of mindlessness and ignorance pervading at that time, but I don't think they put in an advertising and fear campaign costing literal billions of dollars to capture THAT segment.
It was for people like us, who had jobs or other situations they needed to take advantage of in order to force us into rationalizing and downplaying the negative consequences so we would do something unusually stupid for our character. I mean, intelligent people do silly, inadvisable things ALL THE TIME - and that's without all the pressures and the weight of the world added to the wrong side of the scales, not to mention the peer pressure.
Not that I'm calling your husband that at all. I completely understand where he was coming from and had I been in the same situation at the time, I'd likely have done the same. Even if you got an exemption back then, the landscape was such that you were made to feel like you might STILL be pushed into it at a later time... we all had NO CLUE of when or if they would ever relent and leave us in peace, without getting it.
You're completely correct that some of the backlash is way too harsh and actually gets pretty cold and downright mean at times. It was a more crucial decision that any of us could have realized in hindsight and it has almost no reflection on who a person is, how intelligent or engaged they are, or what they believe or their character is.
There's a lot of understandable angst and backlash from the unvaxxed, and everyone's situation is different, but sometimes I think some of these people feel like ANYONE who got a jab was some kind of fascist liberal advocate for getting it, and MUST HAVE put pressure on others if they got it themselves. Gotta chill out a little.
Thanks again for sharing your story! It made my day, truly. 😁