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Before the covid vax, I was sick once in a 9 year period with a flu.

After the covid vax I've been sick four times, including with covid, the thing that I took it to avoid. I seem to catch everything that comes around now.

I'm not drawing any conclusions. Science at this level requires heaps of data that I don't have. It's possible that at 52 years old people rapidly lose a lot of immune function. It's a possible statistical artifact. It's possible that covid did this, not the shot. And it is possible that the vaccine weakens your immune system (there is a plausable mechanism and it's been claimed by many to be the case).

John 2y ago

I suffer from an auto-immune disease and the specific mechanism seems to involve leukocyte over-reaction, I've had COVID twice, both times unpleasant but, relative to flu, mild, and my suspicion is that COVID suppresses the immune system. That suspicion is based on the auto-immune disease stopping for a few months after COVID and my first ever flu - which was immediately following the second time I had COVID. Flu, for me at least, made COVID look like a lightweight virus. Like you I'm not willing to move beyond suspicion because of confounders.

I was vaccinated twice, very early on 2020, and auto-immune disease activity didn't reduce afterwards, while it did both times with later strains of COVID. Needs further study and really difficult to disentangle.

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John 2y ago

Correction: vaccinated 2021, for the exact date I'd need to check, - seems like a decade ago.