# Help! I am about to be sucked into an argument about adverse covid vaccine reactions

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [February 2, 2021, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-am-about-to-be-sucked-into-an-argument-about-adverse-covid-vaccine-reactions/932066 "2021-02-02T17:24:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-am-about-to-be-sucked-into-an-argument-about-adverse-covid-vaccine-reactions/932066/41 "2021-02-18T15:32:33Z")

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Stranger, I took your advice - second post in this thread, and walked away. Unfortunately not soon enough, to get deluged with a blizzard of nonsense.

My co-workers used to chorus (about similar things): “This could only happen to you.”

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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-am-about-to-be-sucked-into-an-argument-about-adverse-covid-vaccine-reactions/932066/42 "2021-02-20T17:12:42Z")

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The universe people live in is influenced by their anecdotal experiences. I’ve had a bad case of “the flu” maybe twice. As a rule I feel it coming on hard and take my regiment of voodoo supplements. It works itself through my body from top to bottom in a day. I just don’t seem to have problems with it. conversely, I’ve had 2 flu shots in m life and they didn’t go well at all. Might as well just have gotten the flu. I haven’t had a tetanus shot in 57 years because I’m apparently allergic to it. The first and only one I had was really bad.

I know many people who’ve gotten covid and it was mild for all of them. Possible side affect in one of them that’s now gone.

So in my personal universe nobody I know has suffered from getting covid and I have had bad experiences from vaccines. I’m not adverse to getting the covid vaccine for the greater good but I expect to suffer for it.

For people who are not prone to health issues from covid the argument has to be aimed outside their personal universe.

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