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Something tells me that this is going to be a hard sell.
I think most people are out of pandemic-mode already even if the pandemic isn't done with us. And while it should be easier to sell the idea of getting a booster to people since there weren't piles of dead bodies from the vaccines like the anti-vaxx people predicted, but that kind of logic doesn't work on folks. The anti-vaxx people were proven wrong, and yet somehow those people are going to claim they were correct and be even more adamant about not getting the vaccines this time.
It’s a slightly harder sell because the vaccine didn’t kill me nor did I expect it to, but it definitely did knock me on my ass with some flu like side effects for a day or two.
I got the flu and covid shots last time. Knocked me on my ass for the weekend. BUT when I caught covid a few months later, it was an annoying cold. I'll take a weekend on the couch over a week or more of shittiness any time.
Guess I was lucky - no shots and covid was still like an annoying cold.
For sure. Everyone’s immune system is different.
Some people can get the flu and only be out a day or two. Some people get it and it kills them.
It also depends on which strain you came in contact with. The virus in the beginning was a lot more violent then what it is now. Mutations have weakened the virus over time.
Guess you were lucky.