I believe he actually replied, “I was prick’d well enough before, an you could have let
alone.”
“Is this a needle I see before me?”
My MIL’s retirement home in Oregon told us that a local pharmacy will facilitate the vaccinations for the facility. The employee said the first doses are already produced and the state is waiting for the okay to begin. I’m assuming the pharmacy will send people to the facility to do the injections.
Here are three short clips from today’s NYT:
A rumor has started that the COVID vaccine is actually a method of female sterilization. One of my favorite YouTubers is here to debunk it.
(Bold added.) Not at all. She’s suddenly the talk of all the conspiracy mongers. That photo of her getting the shot was actually taken months ago. She died years ago. She’s just a crisis actor. The photo shoot is staged – see, the nurse giving the shot isn’t wearing plastic gloves. Oh yes, they’re talking about her.
What it’s like to get the COVID vaccine. Not a huge deal, but as one of the clinical trial participants put it, not “a walk in the park”, either. Symptoms may include a mildly sore arm, and for some, the development of mild flu-like symptoms along with the typical fatigue associated with the early stages of flu. Many will not get the flu symptoms, but if you do, doctors stress that the flu-like symptoms are a good sign that the body is developing antibodies and responding as it should.
When you consider the tremendous number of deaths and long-term disabilities caused by this plague, I won’t hesitate for a second to get the shots (there are two, about three weeks apart). Protection kicks in faster than earlier thought.
Talking about temporary side-effects is just going to put people off getting these vaccines and it’s not a big deal - I had a flu and pneumonia shots a few weeks ago and I felt like shit for 24 hours. Would still get them again.
As I said, I won’t hesitate to get it, and because of age* I’ll probably be one of the early ones, probably just behind front-line workers. Everyone should do the same, but there’s nothing wrong with being honest with people about some minor side effects. The anti-vaxers are going to be out there ranting anyway.
* Actually, I’m quite young and robust, but due to what is obviously some mistake on my birth certificate, the government thinks I’m over 65. One look at the youthful handsome face behind the white quarantine beard I currently sport should convince anyone! 
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is!”
Heh - must be hard for you. Always having to produce ID when buying alcohol etc.
And it’s nice of you to bleach your otherwise deep, dark brown beard snow white so the <ahem> young’uns won’t be intimidated by your extreme, uh, robustitude! What a guy! 
It’s not the intimidation, it’s their lust I’m trying to control. For some years now a number of the pretty young checkout girls have been calling me “dear” in an obviously coy attempt to solicit a date. Others have fallen all over themselves to help me out with heavy packages like cases of wine. One time when I was returning something to Home Depot, the pretty young lady at the service desk looked me directly in the eye and brazenly asked me for my phone number.
Sorry for the digression from the vaccine topic, but this is the kind of thing I have to put up with today, with today’s aggressive young women.
And now, back to vaccines. Everyone should get the damn thing, period!
You sly, uh, dog, you! Just keep on breakin’ those young hearts! 
ThelmaLou doesn’t know how to tell him… that’s how they treat their dads…
Of course, dear.
[little tip: next time call them ‘brazen young hussies’. That little extra edge boosters your case-public opinion and all…]
Or their grandpas!
The next one to to call me ‘hon’ may get a piece of my mind—if I can find it in time.
I had an awful reaction to Shingrix, but I’ll happily block out a few days, order up a box of chocolate, and listen muzzily to LOTR straight through when I get my COVID vax.
My 90+ year old parents have had the call! They’re getting the first instalment of the vaccine on Friday. WHOOP.
I had no adverse reactions at all (that I could tell) to the Zostavax and later the Shingrix vaxes, beyond some mild soreness at the injection site. Does that mean my immune system wasn’t working?
They’re saying getting these Covid shots will be about as shitty as the shingles shots? Does that mean I probably won’t have any side-effects to this too?
No. You are one of the luckier ones is all.