In all fairness we've all had different COVID or vaccine-related experiences... and it shapes how we feel and what we believe. I have a brother who got the first vaccine shot a while back, and while waiting for his 2nd shot, developed Bell's Palsy. It didn't last... but it scared him off the 2nd shot. His daughter is totally anti-vax... and she's also done a number on him which basically nailed it down that he would never get the 2nd shot. Everyone else in the family is fully vaccinated. Not long ago I sat in the waiting room of a medical office... and got involved in a conversation with an older lady who was totally anti-vax. She was adamant and even angry about it.

Point is... sometimes people can have a vaccine... and then later coincidentally suffer from an unrelated medical condition... and the reflex would naturally be to blame it on the vaccine. The truth is nobody really knows most of the time, and fears should be respected. My brother misses out on a lot of events because he cannot produce a complete vaccination card. He's aware of this, but still refuses to go through with his shots. I can't say I blame him.

At this point all we can do is hope that this whole COVID/Delta/Omicron thing dies down sometime in the new year. Meanwhile, vaccines continue to exist and help not only with COVID, but with many other diseases. I got a shingles vaccine not too long ago, after reading about and knowing other people who had gotten the shingles and saying it was the worst thing ever. That prompted me to get the vaccine. I'm even considering whether or not to get an influenza vaccine at some point. What I always consider is that vaccine technology is not new by any means. If it was, I might be more skeptical. But I remember getting vaccines for things like polio when I was a child.

Bottom line is... getting vaccines (or not) shouldn't be a cause for warfare between people. I doubt it was ever this bad before... which leads me to believe that we have advanced in many things... but have regressed in others.