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Originally Posted by Nucky
As long as my Doctor is up to date on The Science, then what's to worry about?
I got my 3rd Moderna shot last Friday. It kicked my butt this time and my arm is much more colorful than last time but I'm happy I have a Doctor that I trust my life with.
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Hi Nucky,
I have an immunocompromised friend who got the booster, as directed by her doctor. She is my age. The booster kicked her butt like yours did, for a couple of days. She is fine now.
Recently, I had lunch with a small group of my
vacinnated friends. The talk turned to the vaccine. Among us was a
vaccinated, healthy 40 year-old who told us how her original shots had kicked her butt. . .
Most of the rest of us older ones had not experienced more than sore arms from the two shots we had. . .
But remember when it was said that feeling bad after the vaccine happened more in younger people than for us boomers and beyond — and how that was thought to be a good sign of excellent immunity kicking in.
(I remember wondering if I should be wishing to feel just a bit more puny — as a reputed badge of the vaccine showing evidence of good immunity.)
Anyway, what I extrapolate from those two situations of people I know who have had after-effects — one a young person and one with the booster — is that they must now both have really excellent immunity. (Hey! Look in the mirror. Maybe that booster is making you look younger.
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And now, I will step onto my soapbox and include a shameless confession. . .
I believe the vaccine is working — even though I got only a sore arm out of the deal. But — confession — I try to socially avoid the
unvaccinated — who have no medical reason. . .
I tend to be gregarious and I am sorry that I feel this way — but avoid them, I do. Besides, they come carrying an awful lot of baggage with things like palpable paranoia and having lost focus on the people in their lives. And I am weary of their pre-programmed mantras. So predictable. Facebook junkies. I wish we
vaccinated people did not have to be caught in it with them, as their denials grow arms and legs — reaching into public health, the economy, normal social life, on and on it grows and goes.
When this whole thing started, I said we would find out who we are — and we would find out who other people really are — and —
wow and shudder — I sure wish I had not been so right.
The thing I find most aggravating about this whole mess is the fact that heart surgeries and other necessary surgeries are being postponed by hospitals that have no room because of the
UNvaccinated Covid patients exhausting the staff and taking up so many beds.
And imagine what could happen in the case of a big wreck somewhere near a hospital or another kind of emergency involving a lot of injured people all at one time. And, yet, the deniers continue to deny. It is mind-boggling to try to imagine how they just don’t get what is right before their eyes.
There was a recent reporting of someone dying from a ruptured gallbladder because there was no hospital in a close enough area that could get to him fast enough. A ruptured gallbladder needs immediate attention. Some things can come on without warning — things that could happen to anybody — except, I guess, for those who think they know more about the vaccine than scientists and doctors, even, in some cases, their very own doctors.
I am digressing. . .and I gotta get outa here — going to a cookout with our
vaccinated friends. Such is our decided reality now. (sigh)
Boomer