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Since nobody asked: I got the shot and then contracted Covid while vacationing in the middle of nowhere. It was still really really bad, sickest I've ever been from a virus. If I wasn't vaccinated, then I'd be dead now.
I got it November 2019 (I'm pretty certain) as a healthy early-20s in prime fitness and I nearly died alone in my apartment. I have never been that sick before.
You must have got the first version then, the biggest trap was the cytokine storm of a healthy immune system in heavily exposed younger people overreacting.
We forget how dangerous the initial, alpha and especially Delta variants were before omicron out competed them all.
There was a lot of people who weren't aware of how horrible that first one was. We were among the 2019 wave before they even called it Covid, it was easily the worst sickness to land on us. No surprise people suffered long-covid or died after that.
I also got the shot and still got it. Thankfully I was home and had family to help. I was out of it for about 4 days. The only times I was awake was when I was coughing so hard I would pass out again. It was the sickest I'd ever been and while I probably wouldn't have died from it, I'm incredibly grateful I didn't have it worse.