Natural_Born_Cynic wrote: ↑June 28th, 2023, 7:01 am
Yohan wrote: ↑June 27th, 2023, 9:44 pm
Natural_Born_Cynic wrote: ↑June 27th, 2023, 11:40 am
Wow..
you managed to take five COVID shots and survive and you are going to take the sixth? Are you Arnold Schwarzenegger or something?
Your one bad ass old man.

Most people would've been dead by now. I hope you don't become an another casualty.
No. 6 shot is ready for me end of next week, already reserved. (pfizer BA-1, same as No. 5 shot) - no problems, any side effects disappeared within one day or so. Despite travelling around in Japan and also in Thailand and Philippines, I never got covid-19.
In Japan approx. 400 million shots totally (No. 1 to No. 6) were given to people who decided to accept the covid-19 free of charge vaccinations and were showing up with the application form from the National Health Insurance.
So far only Pfizer and Moderna passed all required Japanese tests successfully. Now no other vaccine is available.
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About vaccinations in general, I get regular shots against seasonal flu and also every 5 years against pneumonia since 2008. Very helpful, never suffered of pneumonia, bronchitis and seasonal flu during the last 15 years again. What others are doing, I don't care.
Kudos to you old man. Most people I know of took the shot and they get real bad side effects like heart complications or weakening of heart muscles. Your a badass. I wish you well. I never took the shot anyway and I am still fine. Maybe because I stayed out of the restaurants or crowded places and always wore masks.
To stay away from restaurants and other crowded places makes sense, also good quality masks make also sense, especially if you face another person nearby and that person is also using a mask. Most virus related infections are however entering the body because of your own unclean hands, to use alcohol to wash them frequently helps too.
Yes, I took yesterday morning the covid-19 shot no. 6, and today 24 hours later all side effects are gone, my left arm is not painful anymore and I am not sleepy anymore. MY first mRNA with Pfizer was in July 2021, two years ago and I was never infected with covid-19, despite travelling to Thailand 3 times and 1 time to Philippines and made several trips around Japan, also within the crowded large cities using public transport. I was never infected with covid-19 and so far I am still alive and also during the regular health checks no side effects have been found.
So far about 16 million Japanese people took the #6 covid-19 vaccination - only Pfizer and Moderna are available and it is free of charge - other vaccines failed to fully qualify, as the Japanese standard is very strict and requires testing with more than 60.000 humans under Japanese supervision before being approved.
Partially approved is AstraZeneca, a non mRNA vaccine and produced locally in Japan. It can be ordered on special request, but only for people 40+ and with reduced dose, as it was found to be effective, but causing sometimes blood clots when using the full dose with younger people.
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Up to the individual, what you decide to do in Japan, many show up for free vaccination, but surely not everybody. We cannot know if people passing by next to you are vaccinated or not. Just care about yourself, don't care what the others are doing.
There was never any lockdown or any other restriction here in Japan.
You have however to consider, that Japan and South Korea have been always the first countries which have been hit severely by this covid-19 virus from China since it started and everybody here mistrusts this dishonest Chinese government, which is only into cover up medical issues regarding covid-19 and is not helpful towards its neighbors.
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Ministry of Health, Japan, official statement
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/covid-19/vaccine.html
Consent to vaccination
Although we encourage all citizens to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, it is not compulsory or mandatory. Vaccination will be given only with the consent of the person to be vaccinated after the information provided. Please get vaccinated of your own decision, understanding both the effectiveness in preventing infectious diseases and the risk of side effects. No vaccination will be given without consent. Please do not force anyone in your workplace or those who around you to be vaccinated, and do not discriminate against those who have not been vaccinated.