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My score on the "quantitative" covid-19 antibody test was 187. So now I can track it quarterly.

skyrider: "As one comment explained......"From the article, "It's waning to the point that you're seeing more and more people getting breakthrough infections, and more and more of those people who are getting breakthrough infections are winding up in the hospital." So......what you are really saying is that the vaccine really isn't all that effective in either preventing contracting the disease, nor is it as effective in preventing serious symptoms or from preventing death as the media has been pushing down our throats the past year. " =============================================== Anyone who thinks that this meant the vaccine isn't effective don't understand what's happening. The people winding up in the hospital are the people who are still refusing vaccinations. The "breakthrough" infections are from the variants, with Delta being the most popular one to catch right now. If you catch a variant, you might not be 100% protected against the infection- but if you were totally innoculated with 2 shots before, then you're going to have a lot of resistance against the variant. If you actually get sick, the severity and length will both be way down. Anyone heard of Gabriel Iglesias? He's a stand-up comedian from the US, Mexican-American, and he's rather corpulent. His nickname is "Fluffy." "Why do I drink diet soda? So I can eat regular cake." He's not that young anymore. He's seriously overweight, and has related problems (Type 2 diabetes, etc.) He got one of the breakthrough infections from the Delta variant. He's got a load of pre-existing problems. He took to his bed and was fine the next day. He said that's entirely due to him having both doses. He said he's had worse incidents from HANGOVERS. Want to risk ending up in the hospital from one variant of Covid or another? Just keep skipping the shots. The shots decrease the risk of getting sick at all, and they decrease the severity of the illness if you DO get sick. Or, you know, you can just keep thinking that governments all agreed on innoculations as part of some conspiracy, and that every country manufacturing one or another is including some weird spying thing or something when they make it.