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There have been numerous reports of ED being one of the post Covid problems experienced by men who have had the virus.

I don’t think it gratuitous flattery when I mention that this website is THE place for all things ED, not to mention a treasure trove of wisdom on lots of other stuff. As a result, I got to wondering how site denizens were thinking re: getting vaccinated.

This is especially true since there are quite a few guys on here who are in age groups that don’t fare as well against the virus as, say, some 17 yr old kid.

So here’s my question.

Have you been vaccinated? If not, do you plan to be vaccinated?

If you have had the vaccine, which type? Did you experience side effects? How severe were they?

If you’ve been vaccinated, do you feel like masking is ridiculous at this stage and do you think it’s time to resume normal life?

Since I brought it up, I’ll go first.

Hell yes I’ve been vaccinated. I’m a 65 yr Old and currently am having to help out my 90 yr old mom. Shopping and housework have gotten tough for her this past year.

I ended up getting the Pfizer. Shot 1, 1 day of sore arm. Shot 2, 6 hours of sore,achy arm.

I’ve de-masked unless I go into a store that requires it. Most places here have gone mask optional and folks waiting their turn still go masked. Truth be known a cloth mask is of no real value except psychological.

Maybe I’m too trusting but I like vaccines. I was 5 or 6 when one Saturday our family doctor set up at the grade school near out home to dispense a sugar cube with the oral polio vaccine. The Army vaccinated me against EVERYTHING....yellow fever, typhoid, the 6 shot Anthrax series with two annual boosters. Covid shot was s picnic.

I’ll admit living in a semi rural area has me spoiled, we didn’t have the case volume of big city urban areas and the impact on daily life was negligible.

With an implant I wasn’t sweating the ED qconnection, but being dead from Covid has a negative impact on your sex life and I did want to avoid that, now that I’m a wild man in bed again.

Just interested what other FTers were thinking on the subject.

66, Got second shot one week before my implant surgery, hell yes we still mask, it’s not about “me” I’m type O blood ... so never had to worry much about get real sick, But I could be a super spreader with out knowing it. Besides it’s still manitory here in Wash state- two more months, hell we got this - piece of cake, most our friends are now vaxed so that helps to chat with out masks. I would say the Moderna vaccine was very easy on both my wife and I and the dr. Oked getting the 2nd shot so close to surgery date. Thus far no vax issues.

I am 73, I had the Moderna, both shots, not a big deal. I have to use an ED pump and rings and I have
seen no effects on that situations since taking the vaccine. Didn't seem to effect me one way or the other.
Kind of like when there was a big scare with the flu vaccine some years back, it's just not a big deal.

I am 66 and fully vaccinated with the Pfizer. I live in Center City Philadelphia. My husband is not eligible yet because of his age and now health issues so I am very careful that I don't get it and not know it thus give it to him. We do eat out in a restaurant that is at 20 percent capacity however we prefer outside dinning.

I am fully masked when I am outside on the streets, and I walk 8 miles a day. I feel it's a small price to get through this.

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I've had both Moderna shots. No side effects other than a sore arm. I only wear a mask when required by some businesses. I guess if I felt the need to prove how woke I was I'd be wearing three.

How could men who are willing to jam needles in their dicks, surgically alter their dicks, or put them in suction tubes for 20 mins a day to get a hard-on find it too inconvenient to wear a mask to protect the people around them??? SMH.

Listen to the experts.

Vaccines work. Get whatever vaccine you can, as soon as you can.

Masks work. They protect the people around you. The better the mask, the better the protection.

Social distance, limiting exposure works.

Do all those things until the experts say otherwise.

I was vaccinated in Dec/Jan (healthcare). I wear a KN95 mask when I am out in public. I wear an N95 mask at work. I’ve really limited my social contacts and feel the strain, but this is all temporary and helps to reduce illness and death.

Does the vaccine keep you from getting or transmitting the C-19 virus?

As of March 2021

Getting it, maybe. Studies are being conducted now

Transmitting it, probably reduces but not eliminates transmission.

The studies that allowed emergency use of the vaccines in the U.S. focused entirely on how effective they were on REDUCING HOSPITALIZATIONS, DEATH and EXTREMELY SEVERE symptoms. Nothing more.

Of course, if you are not coughing, you are spewing fewer particles of sputum, but you are still contagious if you have the disease. And I reiterate, the studies to see if you are protected against GETTING the disease are not completed yet.

Thanks. Hopefully this will keep going. I’m seeing the type of feedback I’d hoped for.

As far as mask/no mask. I guess I hate being lied to. And have a long memory. When this first hit, the doctor experts in govt said the public didn’t need to mask. Then we did. I’ve about decided the way to tell when government officials are lying is check to see if their lips are moving.

I guess you ask 100 doctors for an opinion, you get 100 different answers. Thus seems to be the consensus of the docs I’ve talked to in Houston:

A N95 mask might be effective. You might as well not wear a mask if what you have on is cloth. Pore spaces way too large to effectively stop a virus particle.

If you’re vaccinated it is highly unlikely that you are infected. If you aren’t infected, you can’t pass the virus.

If you are completely asymptomatic it is possible but not likely that you could infect someone.

There are exceptions but under-50s......this stuff is likely to be no worse than influenza. The younger you are, the less likely it is that you will have any issue.

Those of you who are vaccinated but can’t get spouse or partner vaccinated due to category limits.....come vacation in Texas. Spend your tourism dollars here, and get a covid shot as a souvenir. All folks >16 yrs of age are now eligible to be vaccinated, and our hospitality industry as well as airlines will be glad to take your money.

And the worst sign you’re liable to see in a store or cafe is “masking encouraged but not required.”

As far as the question “does the vaccine prevent the virus”? Of course it does. I’ve never been much of a conspiracy theorist type but in my old crotchety middle age I’ve gotten to the point to where I don’t believe much that comes from Washington DC.

Do like we did when we all lined up for anti-polio sugar cubes: get the shot, and live your life. I do like the idea of social distancing....I’ve done that my whole life. Plus I tend to do stuff outdoors.

It’s like my last tour of Iraq. During rocket attacks, I adopted the attitude that if someone launched a NKorea made rocket from the tailpipe of a 1960 Dodge Pioneer while on the Euphrates, 17 miles away.....and it landed on top of me and blew up and killed me, then it was the day I was supposed to die.

I’ve had the vaccine. Allegedly I’m immune or if I do catch Covid it’s supposed to be mild. It’s time to live, not to hide behind a mask.

Txagq8 wrote:A N95 mask might be effective. You might as well not wear a mask if what you have on is cloth. Pore spaces way too large to effectively stop a virus particle.

Even a cloth mask will stop a droplet of sputum (carrying virus particles). Saliva, sputum, mucous particles are MUCH larger than a virus particle alone. So, a person wearing a cloth mask is less likely to transmit a virus, just as an unmasked person is less likely to spread a cold or flu if sneezing into a handkerchief or elbow than if sneezing into open air.

Less effective, sure. But more effective than a bare face.

Txagq8 wrote:As far as the question “does the vaccine prevent the virus”? Of course it does. I’ve never been much of a conspiracy theorist type but in my old crotchety middle age I’ve gotten to the point to where I don’t believe much that comes from Washington DC.

I’ve had the vaccine. Allegedly I’m immune or if I do catch Covid it’s supposed to be mild. It’s time to live, not to hide behind a mask.

You got that right. "allegedly immune, but if infected, milder than without the vaccine"

Your use of the word "allegedly" suggests that you don't 100% believe what you wrote, "Of course it does."

As far as the question “does the vaccine prevent the virus”? Of course it does.

I’ve had the vaccine. Allegedly I’m immune

I am not much of a conspiracy theorist, either, but recognize that one could describe our government as "the gang that couldn't shoot straight". Honest mistakes and incompetency among the sincere pile on top of nefarious motives of the insincere to make us dubious about most new information we get any more.

"Believe only half of what you see and one-quarter of what your hear" is an old, old piece of advice. To which I add, "And that goes double for anything you get from the internet, especially from non-authoritative sources."

Thanks for starting this thread. It will be useful and informative. If I am wrong about anything, I hope to be corrected.

I would have been the very first in line to receive the very first vaccine given, if they had let me. I am 58 and I am of the vaccine generation. In my area, I was the first high school class that had to have all their vaccinations up to date to graduate in 1980. Heck in my 4th grade class when the MMR vaccine came out..they lined us up in school and off we went. I have small pox vaccine scars on my arms too. I have some rather serious health issues and my wife is and xray technologist at the local hospital. She has seen healthy people come in with the virus..those who have never been sick much at all..and leave said hospital 2 days later In a hearse. She has also see. 90 yr old feeble elderly folks kick covid butt, and young healthy 16 yr old die.. the virus was not predictable
So Yes I have had both my shots from Moderna..surprisingly with my uncontrolled asthma..i had less issue with my covid vaccine, then I do with the flu shot each year. I just got my second shot and I have 1 more week until they said I would be immune

My prayer is that non of you get this virus..that you all remain healthy