Ugh 😩 I met my new doctor today, had my yearly exam, and got three vaccines.

[th@social.v.st]

@alice does it protect you from assassins like Sophie Sloan's in Dust Bunny?

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@bigiain mmm, pork-cream.

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@th well, I haven't been assassinated a single time since I started wearing it 💁🏼‍♀️

[zephyr@girlcock.club]

@alice

alice when lying on the floor : "👍🏻 10/10 would vaxx my ass in a heartbeat" lol it's the same here

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@bigiain I had fried chicken ice cream once. It was...an experience.

[rachel@norfolk.social]

@alice I had lots of fun a few weeks ago, going in the the pharmacy and saying quite loudly “hi, I’m here for my rabies vaccination”.
Got to love the look of horror on other customers’ faces as they all take a step backwards 😆

(I’ve had it simply due to my travels)

[mischa@ieji.de]

@alice @th Should be proof enough ✨

[bribear@blahaj.zone]

@alice@lgbtqia.space rawr!

[tired_panda@mastodon.social]

@alice I love bryony Claire 💅

[vikxin@beach.city]

@alice preach

[lerxst@az.social]

@alice the worst I EVER felt from a jab (my first shingles vaccine) was a lovely walk in the park compared to the one time I had COVID. I loaded up on a bunch of them in early 2025 as well because I had no idea if they would still be around.

[kwayk42@sechtor.social]

@alice punk af

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@alice

i think "the day after a vaccine sucks" is a big motivator of the antivax movement

no one likes that day

but for a certain sort of painfully ignorant type of person, that is all vaccines mean

the whole "protect you from diseases that will REALLY make you miserable or deathly ill, for a week, a month, or years, possibly maim you, permanently, or possibly kill you" part...

you know, the fucking obvious

it doesn't matter to people who can't or won't think about really simple things

[noodlemaz@mstdn.games]

@alice hell yeah

[cppguy@infosec.space]

@benroyce @alice

"Mummy, Mummy, I don't like needles! 😭"

[brotherpsyche@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @alice just discussed getting passports with my fam for the purpose of getting vaccinated outside of america / because we are approaching that timeline at light speed

[thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io]

@alice fwiw for next time, there’s a bunch of over the counter antihistamines you can take to make you less sore from vaccine jabs (they don’t affect efficacy)

helped me a lot when I got Covid & Flu vax in fall

Thanks for keeping us safe!

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@CppGuy @alice

nobody does

but we grimace, get the shot, and carry on

children are excused a more dramatic reaction. and some adults have valid phobias or trauma about needles (and they steel themselves and put aside their fears, because they can think. emotion is not a problem, lack of thinking is)

but, there exists supposedly grown adults who "function" on this "Mummy, Mummy, I don't like needles! 😭" immaturity. *and* it informs their entire political attitude towards vaccines

morons

[lemgandi@mastodon.social]

@alice

Heroic! Worst vaccine reaction I ever had was about 4 hours of my immune system being mad at me. Most of the time I notice nothing.

But yeh, short-term pain, long-term gain.

[amoshias@esq.social]

@benroyce @alice I chalk it up to moral cowardice. I have known people who are so horrified at the idea of taking an action that hurts their children that they managed to convince themselves that inaction that is 10,000 times more likely to hurt their children was better.