“Why not just take the vaccine? We get vaccinated for other things, why not this?”
I’ve never had a reaction to a vaccine.
Rumor is that reactions are common with some Covid vaccines.
Feel free to butt in line ahead of me.
Headaches, body aches, pain at the injection site; oh no!
Every vaccine has common reactions. Not everyone gets them, they just are commonly seen. The seasonal flu vaccine has plenty of common reactions. The human immune system does some general things when it’s fighting what it thinks is a foreign invader trying to kill it. It fights back with some general defenses (like raising the body temperature) before it can develop the specialized response that creates lasting immunity.