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What I read about at the bottom of this article and my comment to it, too

I was reading an article by BU- School of Public Health titled: "Covid-19 in 2025: 'A constant threat, but a manageable one' " dated 3/8/25 (direct link to that article I'm referencing):  https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2025/covid-19-in-2025-a-constant-threat-but-a-manageable-one/ . The last paragraph and I quote word for word reads: "You can think of vaccines as powerful tools that can help you and your loved ones—no matter what your age—live a life that is freer from the awfulness of the diseases vaccines prevent. COVID-19 affects lung health, heart health, blood coagulation, fertility, and other functions of our bodies. The vaccines do not have these effects.” My response to the above quoted word for word paragraph: 👆 Yes, Covid-19 negatively affects multiple parts of your body, however, I know people who have gotten the Covid vaccine and still got Covid. You still need to do exercise the well known precautions that prevent Covid (prescreen people P...

3 other ways to prevent Covid spread

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Here are 3 other ways to prevent Covid spread that can be easily incorporated into your life with minimal costs: 1) When you don't have to be some where by a certain time (and there'd still be time to do whatever business you need to do before closing time), you can wait in your car until a line dies down and then go into wherever you're going. For example, when there was a line/busy at my credit union, I waited in my car (I could see since I was parked right in front) and made a phone call first and then by the time my call was done there was no longer a line in my credit union. 2) Many of us buy things off Amazon and it doesn't take long to get a hand wipe and wipe down items you purchased. Hand wipes that are either the store brand or commonly known from the "Wet Ones" brand are gentle enough on your mouth and as a result they do NOT destroy things you wipe with (whereas with Lysol/Clorox/store brand of these types of wipes are still great to use, you have ...

Advice from someone I know who got Covid a second time to make it NOT be as awful

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My massage therapist told me how sleeping in a reclined position so that it did NOT get into her lungs made getting Covid a second time NOT so bad. (The first time she had was VERY bad with long-term breathing problems).

How to properly wear a mask

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The poster (BELOW) is courtesy of TRA Imaging (where I went for my yearly preventative mammogram) in Lakewood, WA: