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And just so we are all clear: were there any noticeable side effects?
I felt really tired the next day. That was it.
No, and I got COVID multiple times via family, including losing small for a time. I suspect the lack of vaccine side effects was itself a clue that it didn’t activate anything in my particular immune system. I was doing everything I was supposed to do. Vaccine, boosters, N95 masks, social distancing, not eating out, no haircuts, only really shopping at the grocery store, etc. All that obviously worked for others, and I’m glad, but didn’t work for me.
When it happened, my mum kept telling me about how she had heard of all these cases of people dying after taking the vaccine as a way to scare me from taking it. I had to keep telling her that there would be 100 times more people that could potentially die from my choice to not take it, especially if I was an asymptomatic carrier.
She wasn’t wrong; people were dying after taking the vaccine. But that’s not because the vaccine killed them, it just wasn’t able to help them. Also at the time it was infuriating. Most people seemed to have about a week’s attention span where they followed guidelines, but after two weeks they no longer cared and COVID was “over”. They didn’t want to hear that this could take years, because they wanted to party and their motivated reasoning kicked in. Lost a lot of faith in humanity.