The people who rushed out to get vaccinated got it first. They described it as hell on earth where they couldn't get out of bed for a week and thought they were going to die.
Then the people who didn't get vaccinated got it. They described it as either a moderately bad cold or "I didn't even know I had it until I got tested".
Either the vaccine made things a lot worse, or the people who bought into it deluded themselves into making themselves sicker than they actually were because if the virus wasn't a big deal, they just got an experimental gene therapy over a seasonal cold. Either way, all it did was make me even more skeptical.
Almost everyone I know has had it.
The people who rushed out to get vaccinated got it first. They described it as hell on earth where they couldn't get out of bed for a week and thought they were going to die.
Then the people who didn't get vaccinated got it. They described it as either a moderately bad cold or "I didn't even know I had it until I got tested".
Either the vaccine made things a lot worse, or the people who bought into it deluded themselves into making themselves sicker than they actually were because if the virus wasn't a big deal, they just got an experimental gene therapy over a seasonal cold. Either way, all it did was make me even more skeptical.
Could be nocebo. If you believe something will cause pain, it can.
The prodding of the Covid test, plus the test result and anxiety, could definitely create some negative reactions in its own.
Anyone not afraid of Covid won’t experience nocebo, so you would expect less severe cases from that alone.