Election Year or Fear!

[MadAmster]

It’s all very random, MA. My wife and I had our Covid and Flu vaccines together on the same day (left arm, flu…right arm Covid) about three weeks ago.
She woke up that night with a really bad head ache (very untypical) and had a painful arm for about a week afterwards. I had no side effects whatsoever.
Correspondingly, in the early days - coincidentally about the time Johnson resigned - I had Covid…took the precaution of moving bedrooms but nothing more and while I tested positive for over a week she remained completely Covid free.
Overall though I remain convinced that vaccinations are an overwhelmingly good thing which stop the spread of all sorts of once serious infections and that, unless you’ve possibly had the type of reaction you speak of, people should have them.

P.S. Given the events of this week, perhaps we should all be investing in disinfectant and syringes.
P.P.S. COYR.

'er indoors has had it twice. I hit the guest's bedroom for a few days. Once she tested negative, I returned to the matrimonial bed.

What worries me the most is that many young parents are now deciding not to have their offspring vaccinated at all. Measles etc are back on the rise. We are seeing cases of polio again. Tried and tested vaxes are, we know, not 100% safe and they don't "take" on everybody. However, there's less chance of issues if kids get vaccinated than if they don't. For the sake of those parents who have decided not to have their kids vaxed, I hope there's no cause for them to rue that decision but it's a guarantee there will be those wondering why their kid has developed polio, hopefully, not to the extent they need an iron lung.

[ramAnag]

'er indoors has had it twice. I hit the guest's bedroom for a few days. Once she tested negative, I returned to the matrimonial bed.

What worries me the most is that many young parents are now deciding not to have their offspring vaccinated at all. Measles etc are back on the rise. We are seeing cases of polio again. Tried and tested vaxes are, we know, not 100% safe and they don't "take" on everybody. However, there's less chance of issues if kids get vaccinated than if they don't. For the sake of those parents who have decided not to have their kids vaxed, I hope there's no cause for them to rue that decision but it's a guarantee there will be those wondering why their kid has developed polio, hopefully, not to the extent they need an iron lung.

Polio is a great example. Growing up in industrial and heavily populated Lancashire I remember the real fear of infection back in the late fifties, early sixties. Then came the injections, or - if I remember correctly - sometimes just a dose on a sugar cube,
and the fear was gone from a disease that has been virtually eradicated in this country but for the indifference and ignorance of a few in more recent times.