Wife and I both got the J&J shot weekend before last; day after local news ran a story about it possibly being suspended. Arm was sore for about 10 minutes. Ran a bunch of errands in town the rest of the morning. Had discovered a few days prior a tree on the back side of our place where we hardly ever go had the top blown out across the property line and our very nice neighbor didn’t mention it but figured he’d get it up eventually so we snaked the tractor to rope and chain distance, skidded it back over to the wood lot, and worked it up. No ill effects yet. How effective it is or how long it lasts, not a clue. After an hour I told my wife I thought it must be a CIA plot because I was having the inexplicable side effect of thinking Biden is a competent President solely motivated by the best interests of the American citizenry. Of course that was a joke, I’ve never had that thought cross my mind for a millisecond.
Considering the people disseminating the information on this stuff have said various things such as “two weeks to flatten the curve”, that turned out to be incorrect over and over and over, I find it difficult to believe much other than COVID is a nothing disease for some, deadly for some, and somewhere in between for others (have seen all that). Have the inaccuracies been because they’re figuring it out as they go, doing the best they can, and being totally transparent? Or is it some political power grab? Maybe the whole thing is a nefarious plot by some evil secret society? Maybe intervention by extraterrestrials who are watching from afar and decided to thin the herd? Don’t know. Care a little but not much. Regardless the reasons, there’s been so much inaccurate and conflicting information, taking anything as gospel truth doesn’t really make any sense. Ignoring it as a total fabrication doesn’t make much sense either.
I decided long ago to be concerned about stuff I can actually do something about (which is a good bit more than just going to work every morning and coming home every evening) and leave the rest to God. And our personal decision based on the risk/reward of COVID v vaccine was to get the vaccine. If someone doesn’t want to get it due to whatever reasons they have, not my business.