Will things ever go back to normal? Will they? Is there a such thing as normal? Thinking about the vaccine alone puts a bad taste in many millennials mouths. We are hoping that it doesn’t become a must for absolutely everyone. From our perspective, something about it just doesn’t seem safe.
It’s hard to find out about a worldwide virus that’s killed millions of people, possibly being man made. Let alone another man made vaccine that supposedly works. It’s too much to take in, seriously. Many millennials are afraid of what’s happening with conspiracies in mind. No one trusts anyone at this time.
After doing some research, it’s been said that COVID-19 vaccines can cause a short fever, headache, fatigue, sore arm or chills, especially after the second dose. Other reactions are extremely rare.
Vaccines work by getting the immune system to fight. So it is common for highly effective vaccines, like the tetanus shot, to give people some symptoms. This is a sign the vaccine is doing what it was meant to do: Wake up the immune system and prepare it to fight off an infection in the future.
The COVID-19 vaccines tend to cause these same sorts of symptoms: Soreness in the muscle where the shot went in, some fatigue, and perhaps feverish. All of these symptoms are good news because they indicate the vaccine is working. And all can be made better with common over-the-counter painkillers like acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Advil or Motrin.)
Coincidentally, The COVID-19 vaccines don’t contain coronavirus, so the vaccinated person can’t get COVID-19 from the vaccine. But they or someone they live with might get sick from a virus or bacteria that they picked up around the time they got vaccinated.
There’s so much information out there it’s hard to decipher between what’s true and what’s not. Nonetheless the vaccine is coming. In some places it has already arrived. What are your thoughts? Do you plan to take the vaccine right away? Does anything make you hesitant? If so what are those things? Can we trust the vaccine? Do we even have a choice?
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