For better or worse, I'm fully vaxxed - at least for 8 months when I guess I'll need a booster. Despite the cartoon, I'm not really smug about it either. I've said it before - I made what I thought was the best of a bad choice.
I posted this on Facebook too. I considered not doing it because I know it will be a trigger for some people and I may lose more friends over it, but I think it's important to keep a sense of humour - even if 200 people a day are dying of COVID in Florida. It's not funny that people are dying, it's not even funny that many have chosen to go the way of conspiracy theories. I'm just sick of treading on eggshells. And I'm also sick of feeling as though I should apologise for the choice I have made. Like I've sold out or something. ME! The quintessential rebel.
I do not know what the issue is , truly, Getting the jab is a no brainer. Does anyone have polio or small pox or measles mumps and rubella. What is the fecking issue??
ReplyDeleteLinda I really think there is something else going on here. The level of fear around the vaccine is disproportionate to the reality. People seem to be engaging in some kind of weird transference of their fear of the virus (and all that involves - loss of control, mortality) to fear of the thing that willl probably protect them from the virus. There's a degree of denial of the risks because they simply can't face the prospect of a loss of entitlement to a life free from this type of thing and their own mortality. I can understand the fear in uneducated and unsophisticated societies where superstition still reigns, but it looks like even people in developed societies are reverting to primal responses.
DeleteI am waiting to hear when there will be booster shots. I got my second jab in April and had only one day of tired headachy-ness. I feel safer being vaccinated, and I still mask up like there's a plague. We really don't know what is coming next. I have this very sad feeling that the virus is going to keep on mutating and it ain't ever going away. Could this be the way it ends for humans? Maybe. We'll have to wait and see. I'm glad you are vaccinated. I hope you are feeling well.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Robin. I don't think this virus will stop mutating until it has wiped out enough humans. It is nature's defence and I'd have to say, humans certainly deserve this response. I haven't had any side effects from the vaccine so far.
DeleteIt is quite surreal for us in the far west of the continent. We have no cases of the virus and have had minimal cases since the pandemic started. Our premier has basically shut the borders and we are doing fine. The economy is booming and the only reason we know something is going on is when we watch the news.
I've had my first jab but I don't particularly want to advertise it. I made what I felt was the prudent choice in the circumstances but I still believe in freedom of choice and I don't really want to join the ranks of "I've had mine, when are you getting yours?" Some people are worse than ex-smokers.
ReplyDeleteI do believe the virus will hang around but I also believe that once it has killed the most vulnerable, it should be less of an issue. What do I base that on? nothing very scientific, just what I think.
Your last line about the unknown nails it. We like the illusion of control but you'd better believe none of us really have any
Kylie I can appreciate what you are saying re choice, but unfortunately I think the reluctance to vaccinate has only made things worse for all of us because there is a new strain. As you would know, the longer a virus hangs around the more chance it has to mutate. The C1.2. variant is likely more infectious and even more troubling, it mutates twice as fast and is now the furthest mutation away from the original Wuhan variant. The combination of these mutations, as well as changes in other parts of the virus, likely help the virus evade antibodies and immune responses, including in patients who have already been infected with the Alpha or Beta variants.
DeleteSo it isn't a matter of individual choice - those of us who are vaccinated may still be in a precarious position. I for one am pretty pissed off because I have tried to do the right thing and other people are still putting me at risk. It seems more and more clear that this virus wants to reduce our presence on the planet. Tinkering at the edges will only get more of us killed or with long term health issues. Whilst that might be a good thing for the planet, none of us want it to be us or our families and friends that succumb to it.