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I feel like I have a little extra right to be pissed off about this. I volunteered to be part of the first round of trials for the vaccine because I needed to feel like I was doing something to help. I literally risked my life to help develop this safe vaccine and now so many people are throwing that away.
I work for this lady sometimes who has long covid. She has trouble getting upstairs without taking a break. She refused to take the vaccine, still does, and still calls it a hoax. Not taking the vaccine is the biggest win in her life. At least that's what it feels like when she talks to me. And that is still pretty much the only thing she talks to me about.
You're right in your feelings
I'd be enraged
I wasn't part of the trials, but I was probably one of the first hundred or so people in my county vaccinated. I work in our 911 dispatch center and they were able to secure the vaccine for us and other essential first responder type roles, and I remember a lot of my doctor friends were still trying to figure out where they could get the vaccine at the time.
I worked nights at the time, went to the vaccine clinic after my shift. I remember they made us sit around for like 20 minutes to make sure we didn't have any kind of immediate adverse reaction, no one did and I went home and went to bed. I woke up feeling fine, then a couple hours later I had some fatigue and chills and I ended up crashing early. Woke up feeling fine, and the only side effect from subsequent doses was that my arm was sore for a few days.
I figure if I worked a normal day shift schedule, and still got the vaccine in the morning the side effects probably would have hit me about when I was going to sleep anyway and I would have slept through them.
Thank you for taking that risk so the rest of us could have something to safeguard against covid
And just so we are all clear: were there any noticeable side effects?
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.
I felt really tired the next day. That was it.
Since nobody asked: I got the shot and then contracted Covid while vacationing in the middle of nowhere. It was still really really bad, sickest I've ever been from a virus. If I wasn't vaccinated, then I'd be dead now.
I got it November 2019 (I'm pretty certain) as a healthy early-20s in prime fitness and I nearly died alone in my apartment. I have never been that sick before.
You must have got the first version then, the biggest trap was the cytokine storm of a healthy immune system in heavily exposed younger people overreacting.
We forget how dangerous the initial, alpha and especially Delta variants were before omicron out competed them all.
There was a lot of people who weren't aware of how horrible that first one was. We were among the 2019 wave before they even called it Covid, it was easily the worst sickness to land on us. No surprise people suffered long-covid or died after that.
There's some real batshot politics going on in Europe right now, but every time I feel I'm going under, I look across the Atlantic and I see an army laid low with 'flu, a diarrhoea outbreak and a measles outbreak in 2026, and I think, y'know, maybe it isn't so bad here.
I'm sorry you all have to endure this. It must make you feel like you are going insane. To deal with such blatant and brutal gaslighting anti-intellectualism.
I am going insane.
I think the absolute worst part is that I am the one being treated like I'm stupid for being college educated or for just having common sense.
Its like trying to talk and every time you do 20 toddlers scream and shit thier pants at the same time.
There's a minority in the US that is both loud and smells. Unfortunately, they drown the rest of us out, and make a bad taste in everyone else's mouth that I can't blame them for.
The Anti-intellectualism has been a thing for years though, it's suddenly exploded because it hit critical mass and they finally got one of thier guys elected while the rest of us were looking the other way (or in my case, too young to vote.)
Now? Being stupid is being smart. Being contrarian is being patriotic, money is God. Up is down, the sky is green.
I heard a teacher say Moscow was in Ukraine yesterday. No amount of pointing to it on a fucking map could convince her otherwise.
I am. Going. Insane.
I wouldn't worry about the future too much, if you know what I mean.
Boomers are still largely sticking their heads in the ground, and they're in the best position currently to do anything about it. Even my own mother, a lifelong democrat and trump hater, an educated woman (a librarian to boot) still thinks that climate change won't really have much effect until I'm her age (about 30 years).
Humanity is still a good many years out from being ready to accept the responsibility of what we've done, and there are probably a lot less than a good many years until it starts having a profound effect on everyone's day to day life.
it's already having a significant effect today, at least here in Croatia (Europe) with each summer having worse heatwaves than the last.
You forgot the screw worm infestation and the bacon recall ...
Why do you need to recall bacon? Were the pigs fed diarrhoea salad too?
You have no idea. It’s unbelievably disappointing and frustrating. But it has reinforced (re-introduced?) that all politics is local and community resiliency and care is really super important. Even if all you can do it bake sourdough or mow lawns, or help with WiFi troubleshooting…do it. That’s how we survive this. There are infinite possible futures, we just have to imagine and live the one we want.
One of my favorite parts of the covid vaccine thing, other than not getting covid, was how the goalposts kept being dragged a month or two back when the shots didn't kill me. My favorite interaction was someone telling me the jab would kill me in 30 years. I was 40 at the time. Im sure something will get me in 30 years, lol.
Every year I post a screenshot of my aunt's rant about everyone dying from the covid vaccine in 3 years.
Every year people tell me that's not polite, and every year I reply that admitting you were wrong is free.