for the record you missed an “s”. It was headaches as in “every since the first shot”. That’s not a trivial matter. I know many people who took a 1 day hit with the vaccine including myself. I work at home and had the vacation time so it was 1 bad day. I’d be unhappy if I had long term issues with it.
Moving on, none of my friends or family are unvaccinated. I do however, go to bars that see a lot of motorcycle riders who don’t wear helmets. Some of them have been in bad accidents and STILL won’t wear a helmet. I get a lot of “if it’s my time to go then it’s my time”.
I’ve started a fair number of discussions with strangers about the shots. I already know where the conversational quicksand is so I tailor my response to their issues without doing a direct tit-for-tat sermon. I don’t know if I’ve had any success but I’ve had one person actually shake my hand for the effort. My goal is to get people thinking about it and maybe researching it on their own. The decision has to be arrived at individually.
Apparently this perfectly healthy 30 year old died only because of the vaccine. She never had Covid. She went and got vaccinated and two days later she was dead. Funny, I can’t find any evidence of this online.
And now I made the mistake of reading online where a group of people who got the vaccine are now regretting it. Apparently every one of them became deathly ill after having the vaccine. Family members have been hospitalized for months, have ended up on disability, have had heart attacks and kidney failure requiring dialysis. Every one of these people apparently had a complete physical in the month before getting the shot where they were proclaimed to be completely healthy but immediately after getting the shot, they became seriously ill. It just seems that with all of these people becoming seriously ill from the vaccine that some of these would be reported to VAERS. One patient today swore that a German doctor just died from the vaccine. As far as I can tell, there have been three cases of death from blood clots from the J&J or AZ vaccines and several cases of myocarditis in young men, none fatal. Also, I can’t hear another person state that this virus has a 99.8% survival rate. First of all, it’s closer to a 2% death rate and second of all, that is a terrible statistic. That’s 1/50 of those that get infected. The most generous numbers I can use for influenza gives it an 0.6% mortality rate. They also are claiming that it is not a big deal since 250,000 people die of the flu every year while the actual numbers are 20k-60k which is a lot less than 700K. I just don’t even know where to begin. I tried with my patient today to tell her to do it for her family but she is insisting that we not put poison into her body because one time she had a flu shot and then got sick for 2 weeks so all vaccines are terrible and besides, this isn’t a “real” vaccine as evidenced by the fact that it doesn’t even prevent you from getting the disease or transmitting it. I am getting tired of spending 90% of my allotted patient time discussing this.
Oh, and I told my staff members to get a booster and one said she would “think about it”. I reminded her that the vaccine is mandatory but not sure if I can make the booster mandatory.
My brother is losing his job because he won’t get vaccinated. This news made me physically ill last night. I have barely seen my siblings and parents in going on two years because they refuse to take reasonable steps to be safe, and I’m losing my desire to. I’m brokenhearted and angry.
You shouldn’t try to convince anyone to be vaccinated against Covid-19, because freedom of choice and this is America.
So says Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors, commenting on why he won’t urge vaccine-refusing teammate Andrew Wiggins to be vaccinated, even though Wiggins’ refusal means he won’t get to play in home games.
"“You say we live in the land of the free — well, you’re not giving anyone freedom because you’re making people do something essentially without making them, you’re making them do something. And that goes against everything America stands for, supposedly stands for.”
It’s positively lyrical. I want to break into song.
If they were the only one affected I could buy that argument but in this case not getting vaccinated is more like tearing down the street on their bike unhelmeted – and their eyes shut. They’re too likely to hurt someone else in their “freedom.”
Slice it any way you like. If someone has long term medical problems from a vaccine it’s not a trivial matter. I’ve had an increase in arthritis and muscle cramps that started around the time I got the vaccine. I don’t know if it’s related but it’s definitely not trivial.
At this point they’re more likely to hurt other people not wearing a helmet. What I point out in discussions is the fact that they can’t fix the problem with a vaccine once they’re on a ventilator. It’s too late.
I haven’t been able to play the piano since I got the vaccine. My doctor refuses to take this seriously; he keeps asking whether I was able to play before, like that’s relevant.
Fwiw, all the likely vaccine side effects (except “sore at injection site”) are also symptoms people get from covid. The immune system reacts to the virus in all the same ways (and more) that it reacts to the vaccine. If you did get arthritis from the vaccine, and that’s not a coincidence, you likely would have gotten long-covid arthritis had you caught covid. And Delta is so infectious that everyone who’s not vaccinated seems likely to catch it eventually. So the odds are it was worth it, even so.
