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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The threat to the immunocompromised (an extremely broad category) has also been inflated in the media:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/04/covid-vaccine-is-effective-immunocompromised/629596/[/quote]
Chemo patient here, I agree with you actually! But if I contract covid my (hopefully) life-prolonging treatments have to be suspended for 20 days, non negotiable. So we aren’t all in the same situation. [/quote]

Yes, that is the point. "Immunocompromised" is a very broad label, and chemo or transplant patients are certainly in a precarious situation (as they have been prior to Covid since a simple cold can be a serious threat to them), but they represent a tiny minority of those who today declare themselves at "high risk" from Covid despite vaccines.

I wish you the best in your recovery.[/quote]

PP has STAGE 4 cancer - she will not have a "recovery." She is doing chemo to prolong her life - she requires it to stay alive. And I bet she'd like to be able to go out occasionally without worrying that she'll catch a super-contagious disease that might kill her. Which part of that do you not understand?

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Which part of what I wrote makes you think I don't understand her situation? The word "recovery"? Yes, I was thinking that was maybe euphemistic (although I do know someone who had stage IV breast cancer and is alive 20 years later). Apologies for not using a more accurate term, but it's hard to know what the right word is not knowing her exact situation.[/quote]

Cancer patient here - it's all good! I accept all good wishes. I am not likely to make a full recovery; the best we are hoping for at this point is a remission, but that could be months or even a few years if I am very very lucky.

The painful irony about this conversation is that the surgery that could have saved my life last summer was deemed "elective" due to the pandemic health emergency, so what would have been routine under normal circumstances wasn't an option and I am surely paying the price now. This is one of the myriad ways the pandemic has devastated lives far beyond the simple calculation of "did you catch it and did you wind up in the hospital or dead?"

Peace.[/quote]

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