I am quite aware of them.

My mom worked in a nursing home when the vaccine rolled out. Several of her coworkers opted out of taking the vaccine, and she was going to. I answered all her questions. She got the vaccine schedule, and the first one kept her in the bathroom while the second one gave her a huge swelling lump on her arm.

One thing I am not is an anti-vax. I am worried about the side effects, as they are a lot harder to cope with than most vaccines. I think that's a sticking point for a lot of people. I'd rather not go through.

It is possible to not be interested in dealing with gnarly side effects and be pro-vaccine at the same time. Those two aren't mutually exclusive.

People's reactions are different. I had my first AZ jab on the 31st Match. Nothing happened for three days. Then it started and boy did it come on hard! (A Saturday night.) I'm still struggling with muscle cramps. (One week later.) But here's the weird part. (It's laughable and if you do laugh IT IS FUNNY!)

Guess the location of said cramps? In both arse cheeks. For real! I'm okay until I stand up. It seems to come and go. I do suffer from Arthritis in my left hip, so there may be a connection, a weak point in my body. Apart from that, I've been fine.

So, I've literally become a pain in the arse!

I did have symptoms in April '20, which they ran three tests on all of which came back inconclusive. So that may be connected. Viruses work the same way. What makes one person poorly another shrug off. My advice, get vaccinated.

Regards,

Andy and the team.

I'm happy so many folks were able to get the vaccine and not buy into any misinformation and bullshit.
Also, my thoughts and prayers go out to your ass

I'm about to get my 2nd Moderna dose soon. The first was completely uneventful. My family has given the whole pandemic thing no more heed than was required. We had holiday gatherings, trips to Hilton Head and DisneyWorld, etc. I may have had it as things were just breaking and mistook it for a nasty cold but never missed work or anything else. The media had made it sound like it was going to put me at death's door so anything milder got ignored.

What's been interesting is the response from friends who have bought into the internet hysteria about it all. Those who think the virus will end the world and those who think the vaccine will do the same. Pretty sure I've suffered much less just by ignoring the hype on both sides and remembering my high school biology.

I got my first Pfizer shot on Monday, now almost a week a go. For the first couple of days had soreness at the injection site, upper-body stiffness and a very mild headache. Low energy level for about five days. So, all in all, not bad.

Up here in Canada, we don't have as many dosages as are available in the States, so the government is concentrating on getting everyone their first shot first. It will be three to four months before we can get our second shot. 90% effective after two weeks. Waiting for the second shot isn't all bad because vaccine second doses are typically most effective if you wait a few months.

I'm getting my J&J vaccine tomorrow.

i got my first dose today and have a date for my second dose

So I was going to get my vaccine this morning until I heard on Twitter they are stopping the J&J vaccine for causing blood clots. I guess I'm going to have to get the Pfizer or the other one instead.

Just an abundance of caution. it's like one in 250k. Everyone forgets that standard birth control has a one in 1k risk and nobody gets excited about that.

Making babies is experimental and totally left to chance.
And that's FORCED upon an nonconsenting person.
Why do people who whine about the PROVABLY quantifiably small risk of harm from a vaccine
breed & pop out babies, which leads to CERTAIN death for the born & NEAR CERTAIN suffering?

https://antinatalisminternational.com/

It's the total lack of critical thinking & questioning that enrages me about idiots
like my anti-vax friend. She seems to be anti-vax only for herself, at least.
She baselessly thinks that she's the 1 in a million exception that she might get sick
from the vaccine. But, she pissed me off yesterday, citing so-called "news" articles.
She NEVER QUESTIONS or asks critical questions about the news articles.

These people falsely equate being contrarian assholes with critical thinking & questioning.
Well, if they think they should be praised for "questioning" and "criticizing" the hard,
complicated yet entirely testable well-defined discipline of virology & biology,
& going against the experts who devote their lives to these subjects,
then I should be praised for my alternative beliefs and my critical thinking
about the law, human law, freedom of speech, lawyers, judges, courtrooms,
a completely arbitrary subject where definitions (of crime, of murder, of fraud) are arbitrary
and inconsistent.

Because you don't have to pass or even recall high school biology to make babies.

I now have a date and time

Just made an appointment yesterday to get my moderna Vaccine next week on Tuesday and the second one next month.

Finished on Wednesday night. 2nd Pfizer, no weird effects so far....I was really hoping for super powers too...

Do you offer free 5G now?

But it clearly turned you into a potato! Or, you were a potato and turned you back into a man again.. I dunno.

I was finally able to get my appointments for dose one and two. I get my first jab on Wednesday

No, I charge for that shit!

Moderna #2 yesterday at 8am.

I didn't really feel anything unusual until 7pm... then gradually i started to have fairly strong chills, i probably had a fever (now that i think about it, i should have checked my temperature?) It was a strange flu-like experience...body aches, the chills, but not too much nausea or other cruddy feeling? some shortness of breath. and slowly the symptoms have been subsiding during today. We'll see how i feel tomorrow?

The wife and I have registered, we're waiting to be given a date.

You're the only person I've run into besides me with the Moderna. How's it going?

as i type this, i am @+60hrs (2.5 days) after Moderna #2, i am mostly back to "normal" although i have a very slight "out-of-breath" feeling, i'm gonna try and go for a run/jog after work tomorrow.

Not too bad so far!

This will make a bit of an interesting comparison. I'm suspicious that I already had a mild case early on after we returned from DisneyWorld the week before they closed. I've also become sedentary, "fat" and "old", in the last couple of years. Everyone seems to be in general agreement that it's the second dose that kicks your ass. We'll see what happens.

Just got my moderna vaccine today and so far no symptoms, but after more than six hours my arm started to hurt from the shot it wasn't sore or swollen it hurts when I lift my arm above my head. Now I have to wait four weeks from today to get my second dose.

My first dose is finished. I haven't received my 5G, become autistic, or had my DNA altered, leaving me as a lizard person.

Maybe all those lunatics on Facebook that failed high school science were wrong after all!

Got my 2nd dose of Pfizer vaccine yesterday!

Though I am disappointed in it not giving me superpowers,
I AM pretty happy that it prevents me getting Covid19.
Which I guess, in the long history of infectious diseases, IS a superpower,
compared to the measly biological defenses humans had against deadly viruses
before vaccines were discovered/invented.

And that 2nd dose absolutely knocked me flat on my derriere the second day! I was completely exhausted, had chills/fever, etc. Like a mini flu.

Wow. Yeah, everyone seems to say the second shot is worse (Pfizer and Moderna) Honestly, it didn't really do much to me and really surprised me given all the auto immunes and cancer I've had. Side effects and my history were part of the reason I held out so long. I wanted to make sure it wasn't going to really kick my ass.

I hope they find these have good long lasting effects. I'd be elated if it's a 2 and done and now you can get covid, but you wouldn't be able to tell from like a 24 hour cold or something.

Here's hoping.

I had the first AZ a few weeks back. Next day it felt like a hangover after too much booze but it wore off quickly enough. Bring on the 2nd. Other people I know felt nothing, so it varies a lot.

I didn't. 2nd shot same as the 1st. Just a slightly sore arm for a day.
I've never had any negative reactions to any vaccine ever.
Really surprised that my brother says he's gotten sick and tired
and nauseous from vaccines & says he got sick & tired & nauseous
for a day from his 1st shot of Pfizer for Covid.

I just don't understand it.