Originally Posted by Taichiliberal View Post
And that's the hell of it all! This whole thing was put into the category of political ideology....the right wing viewed a mandate as "nanny state, big gov't, deep state" attempts to control all, the left wing for the silly reasons you described just as a counter. Anything in the middle is summarily dismissed.
In my case, I got it in November of 2021 along with my parents and 2 brothers. The brothers had it for a week or two and got over it (akin to a nasty flu) which they treated with various vitamins, minerals and such. I and my parents were hospitalized....my mom didn't make it, my pop was in rehab for a month. I was in for a solid month, with a week in ICU and about 3 weeks with air tubes in my nose....lost 40 pounds and all my muscle tone. Unlike my parents, my brothers were able to send me vitamins, supplements and some Ivermectin on the down low....turned everything around. I had home rehab visit's for a month....had a RPH that was shocked back into norm, followed a month later by a 1 day "minor" out patient procedure. Currently, doing DAMNED good, with a bit of residual leftover that dissipates each week....no more meds, doc gives thumbs up on heart.
Personally, never got a seasonal flu shot....been wary ever since I had to get a tetanus shot as a young man and had a serious 12 hour flu like reaction....also when recently the whole Tamiflu nonsense keeps me of the same mindset.
The whole time this bullshit was going on, I was careening around metro Phoenix in much lighter traffic going to various apartments and homes to fix electrical issues. I NEVER wore a mask except on the rare occasion that the renter asked me to within their home (one case out of well over 100) or where a store (usually the Big Orange Box aka Home Depot) was demanding it while in the store.
I never got it in all those travels in public all over the place. I did catch a cold twice, and did get checked just in case, and did stay out of going to calls until the cold cleared up. I figured that was all reasonable.
On one call in Snobsdale (aka Scottsdale) to a home in a gated community, I was there to change a faulty breaker in the service panel on the outside of the house. Beautiful day. In the 80's, gentle breeze, clear blue sky... The renter, in a mask came out, and then stood on the sidewalk like 20 feet from me bitching the whole time that I wasn't wearing a mask and demanding I do so to spend all of maybe ten minutes swapping out that breaker while outdoors. The fucker didn't even have to be out there at all for me to do it either.
I guess you can be rich and stupid all at once.
Personally, the one that always hurt was penicillin. The military gives you one periodically, because... That's their rule. That damn thing was always like getting hit in the shoulder with a sledgehammer.
As for Chinese Disease, it hit different people differently. The flu is like that too. Me? It wasn't anything special, more annoying than anything. Others, they died from it. I get that. The flu shots the military made you take. I also have the whole hepatitis series, yellow fever, etc., done, even small pox. So, getting a flu shot based on experience is nothing special for me. Didn't do the Chinese Disease one though, and not planning to.
The one they're asking about now is a shingles vaccine. It's really expensive, like $500 and not all insurers pay for it so I've declined so far not knowing for sure if it's covered because it's not worth that to me to avoid something I'm not likely to get.