Not The Onion @lemmy.world BonesOfTheMoon @lemmy.world 9mo ago

A 62-Year-Old German Man Got 217 Covid Shots—and Was Totally Fine

www.wired.com A 62-Year-Old German Man Got 217 Covid Shots—and Was Totally Fine

Hundreds of boosters over a 29-month period had little effect on the one person who tried it.

I aspire to be this guy.

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The title bothers me. He still is totally fine, but he was, too.
- This reads like a Mitch Hedberg quote.
  
  "I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too."
  
  I was a bit inspired 😉
- But if he had never been vaxxed? Higher long COVID risk & stuff.
  
  Maybe delusional-paranoia-quantities of shots are safer than none!
He's totally fine, plus now he can pick up radio signals from all over the known universe.
- With that many shots, he is basically a 5G tower at this point.
  
  he is basically a 5G tower at this point
  
  More like 12G
- Also legally allowed to walk around in public telling people "touch me child and be cleansed".
If you get 216 covid shots, something is clearly not fine.
- My elderly mother-in-law was terrified of COVID and made it a point to get two extra booster shots a few weeks after she got her original dose. She goes back every three months to re-up. I suspect she'd get more if the Pharmacy didn't have her on file.
  
  Some people are just, like, the opposite of anti-maskers. Absolutely paranoid of the disease and ready to grab at any kind of tulpa offered if they're convinced it'll offer protection.
  
  This guy is calling people "Grandpa Biden" as an insult in other threads. I wouldn't take what he has to say about COVID too seriously. He's clearly a Fox News nutjob.
  
  Perhaps she has "Hypochondria?" Who knows how many people/lives in her life that was affected by COVID. At least this article provides some confirmation that she isn't hurting herself.
  
  Tulpa?
- It means you're one of the 99% who stop right before winning
- https://youtu.be/XKukzCe_P8I
- Stop being antivax!
I am from Germany, and the last time I hear about that someone got 217 vaccine shots it was satire because some places offers free food if you get a shot. And he said: "I was just hungry"
I get angry whenever someone pushes that "They lied to you" bullshit. I just tell them "well tell that to my fucked up heart and lungs."
- Or my dead-at-16yrs nephew.
Yeah but I heard my cousin's friend had only one and instantly got autism.
- If to mine but every time I try to use my 5G Mark of the beast I get an error message about having to update Adobe to get my full experience
- You need to get an even number of shots. 0, 2, 4, 8... Everybody knows that. Its basic science.
  
  At 217 this guy's in real trouble if he doesn't grab another.
Wow he really liked those shots
Well that's because he hasn't gotten the Bill Gates' microchip vaccine grown in the same peach tree dishes as his burgers administered by Biden's Gazpacho police and activated by the Jewish space lasers!
- You bastard, you almost made me laugh hard enough to wake my girlfriend 🤣
I'm more curious to know if he ever got COVID or if it actually got him so many antibodies that he never actually got sick
- The researchers did a bunch of tests and determined that he never had COVID, though they cannot attribute that to 217 boosters specifically. They noted that it could’ve been isolation, hand washing, etc.
  
  Better to quote directly from the article:
  
  Last, multiple types of testing indicated that the man has never been infected with SARS-CoV-2. But the researchers were cautious to note that this may be due to other precautions the man took beyond getting 217 vaccines.
  
  To be fair, you have to sit at home since 2019 in order to be cautious enough not to catch it without protection :D
  
  I am unsure if I ever got the virus. Every single time I thought I had it my test came back negative, but my wife and kids got it twice. So it just doesn't seem likely that I never did.
- Good thing there's an article
  
  I guess that is the second article from wired I've read this month and the first one was free. I only got the first paragraph before a paywall.
Well that's one way to host a networked nanite symbiote.

He is Borg now.
Wow. This opens up a possibility that we can keep exercising our immune system and study the long term effects of that. What if there was a weekly schedule of all diseases to practice immune response against!
- ........
  
  Huh?
  
  I mean he did get 5-10x better reaction from antibodies against covid. Imagine if we could design a course for our immune system to fight every known virus.
  
  Our immune system decays and dies as we age. Maybe keeping it busy can keep it alive a bit longer like exercising a muscle.
- It makes sense in theory as it is very similar to say allergy shots.
How did no one notice he taking like a shot about every 3-4 days on average? Does that even make any sense? The more you try to parse it. Like, no one in his family noticed? Nor his Doctor? Did he travel around the world or to different countrues to get all of them? Since most countries do not have them all.

Looked into the guy, there is official evidence for 134 of the vaccinations, which include eight different types of vaccines authorized for human use. The remaining are self-reported. But still, guess no one cares or bothers to notice if you are pushing product.
- What do you mean by pushing product?
  
  Hey kids, you wanna try vaccines?
Come on. He got 200+ vaccine shots. That in itself says he was never fine to begin with.
- When the vaccine came out and I got my first shot, I told the nurse who administered it that I would drink it in a smoothie every day if it helped us get past the pandemic. Still would.
  
  But you haven't, have you?
Is that how many it takes for immunity now?
- Got tired of Facebook? Seems more your style

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