ASPIRATE_THE_DAMNED_NEEDLE_PING!
It’s a great vaccine folks. Safe and effective. You’re playing into China’s hands when you refuse it.
I told the head nurse where I got the booster to aspirate it. He understood perfectly and passed that to the nurse giving me the shot. She and I had an interesting discussion about aspiration, why it fell out of favor, and the necessity with the mRNA products to keep them out of the bloodstream.
She learned the technique 20 or 25 years ago in nursing school. She was good at it…just a very slight backward withdrawal of the plunger with her fingernail, then complete the injection. That helped allay my fears.