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

[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.

[leberschnitzel@existiert.ch]

@alice I got the flue vaccine last year and felt great the next day, so I went and also got the COVID vaccine (first time Pfister)
I was dead for the next two days 😅
But I'd also do it again. Talked to an immunologist before all that and he said that even if an vaccine takes you out for a bit, the stress on your body is so much lower because there's no real attack happening and what's knocking you out is the response, not the vaccine.

[leberschnitzel@existiert.ch]

@alice side note: what always helps me to get back up quickly again is: protein 🧐
Don't know if that's just by body, but having some protein shakes during recovery helps me feel much better much quicker.
Might just be placebo though

[grammasaurus@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @CppGuy @alice My oldest daughter hated needles, got VERY dramatic, but I didn’t give her a choice, we followed the schedule.

When it was my younger daughter’s turn, a decade later, the older one said, “look! no big deal!” and got her shots. Younger one went through the whole process more calmly (holding her sib’s hand, of course)

I stood there with my jaw on the floor. 🙄🙄

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@grammasaurus @CppGuy @alice

one of the more nauseating things in life is seeing children, not even teenagers, understanding and grasping simple things quickly that grown ass adults have based their entire identity on not understanding. to their profound detriment, nevermind all of society's

[gedvondur@hulvr.com]

@benroyce @CppGuy @alice

Hell, I'm somewhat needle-phobic and I still get it done on schedule. Do I cry sometimes? Ya. I still do it.

[adamvs1@mastodon.world]

@benroyce @CppGuy @grammasaurus @alice That’s a good idea. Get the shot yourself, with your kid, then they get the shot. “It’s normal, acceptable, see?”

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@gedvondur @CppGuy @alice

exactly

because you're an adult. who knows how to adult

something that seems to be dying in this world

i'm not speaking in an "old guy yelling at clouds" kind of way

we have rfkjr dismantling vaccine compliance. something a lot of people voted for. because... uggh

[cosmiccactus@mastodon.social]

@alice Are the doctors in the USA still recommending to get COVID vaccines?