{"id":28234,"date":"2021-03-13T10:10:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T17:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=28234"},"modified":"2021-03-13T17:17:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T00:17:59","slug":"side-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=28234","title":{"rendered":"Side Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donna and I got our second doses of the Pfizer vaccine Monday. As physically different from one another as we are, you&#8217;d think our reactions would have been different too, but no. We both thought the second injection seemed more of a jab than the first, but neither of us was sore afterward. We took a short nap together Tuesday afternoon and woke up with slight headaches. We shared the sense that our bodies running at a little less than mil power for a couple of days, but we&#8217;re fine now. For all the talk of side effects, that&#8217;s been it for us.<\/p>\n<p>As a military family, we&#8217;ve been inoculated against all sorts of dread diseases. We remember experiencing fevers, chills, and aches after some of those vaccinations. The COVID shots are a walk in the park by comparison, and I hope people aren&#8217;t avoiding getting the vaccine over concerns about side effects. I wish the media would quit sensationalizing every negative reaction to the vaccines, but I know it&#8217;s a vain wish.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential historian Michael Beschloss posted this photo to Twitter yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"160117645_10159065907262346_7103584495300163688_o\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/51032705416\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51032705416_592431c594_z.jpg\" alt=\"160117645_10159065907262346_7103584495300163688_o\" width=\"593\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People my age, even though we were kids at the time, remember what a big deal that was. We were fucking scared of polio. We went to school with kids who were crippled by it. And it wasn&#8217;t just polio: nearly all of us knew kids, if not in our own families then in our neighborhoods, who&#8217;d died of scarlet fever and diphtheria. Smallpox was still around. My mother had to go away to a sanitarium to recover from tuberculosis when I was little, and she was one of the lucky ones.<\/p>\n<p>I will never understand anti-vaxxers. Something is wrong with their brains.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Something was wrong when we woke up this morning. The sun wasn&#8217;t there, poking over the mountain to the east. Neither was the mountain. Turns out there was a reason:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2kKAm8E\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51032781996_bef1de5ab7_c.jpg\" alt=\"A3BA0F80-A090-4644-9E0C-E8EF1C533F98\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This little guy seemed undaunted:<\/p>\n<div style=\"top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\">\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"E4CFB2BB-2D49-480D-8DF0-00588417A8CA\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;\"  src=\"https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/photos\/51032782926\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Mr. B said nuts to the whole deal, but did venture out into the snow to poop, because not only is he a Good Dog, he&#8217;s a Good Citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a military family, we&#8217;ve been inoculated against all sorts of dread diseases. We remember experiencing fevers, chills, and aches after some of those vaccinations. The COVID shots are a walk in the park by comparison, and I hope people aren&#8217;t avoiding getting the vaccine over concerns about side effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,10,64,555,2],"tags":[3032,3467],"class_list":["post-28234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-current-events","category-history","category-local-color","category-personal","tag-covid_19","tag-inlikealamb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28241,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28234\/revisions\/28241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}