Well, it's done

[asphaltcowgrrl]

Two weeks ago, I got a text from Walmart recommending I get an MMR vaccination.  Which is probably good, becuase I'm sure that I'm due for a booster since it's been like 40 years. 

But it's also exceptionaly sad and frustraing that adults are needing boosters BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE NOT VACCINATING THEIR CHILDREN.

I am relieved because Taylor had to have another dose before she could start her clinicals and Maddie had to have another before starting at UNLV.  So, my kids are protected.

So, I scheduled an appointment for Saturday.  And since I'm going to be there, I'm getting an updated COVID vaccination, since I was due, as well as pneumonia, and shingles since they were recommended. 

Slowly but surely I'm managing to get things done.  Yay?

Time for lunch.

Comments

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

VERY sensible. Honestly, people were trusting of the medical profession and mostly got their kids vaccinated before Covid, and then suddenly everyone on the 'I don't trust the Covid vaccine' bandwagon decided they no longer had faith in the very vaccines that had been keeping them and their children healthy for YEARS. I sort of get the whole 'not sure about the Covid vaccine' issue because it felt like they developed it quickly, BUT it also seemed to work and protected us. The doctors all said it was safe for the MAJORITY of people (so, of course there will always be people who react to mostly other parts of the vaccine, and for them the worry is understandable), so who are we unknowledgeable beasts to say it meant all vaccines were bad? Personally, I reacted quite badly for 24 hours after my 2nd & 3rd Covid vaccines, so am very wary of having another, but have had NO ISSUES with any other vaccines, including the flu shot, so I have no problems with them.

My kids all had their MMR series as kids, so I think they're still covered (and they're all adults able to make their own choices if it is recommended they have boosters), but my hubby and I were of the generation where you just HAD measles, and therefore have immunity. I would not wish measles on anyone, though I barely remember when I had it (I was 5) — my most vivid memory of it was that I was lying on the couch in the living room while they re-wallpapered around me!

I mean honestly, this epidemic with a couple of kids dying over there, is because people are ignoring what will keep their kids safe!!! Just vaccinate, and let's wipe this out!!! Sorry, that was a bit of a rant, and I know I'm preaching to the choir, but do they really want this ongoing and nasty thing around?

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

SERIOUSLY. And I jumped on the shingles vaccine because my FIL had it a couple of years ago and was miserable. No thank you!

Ugh, I can't imagine. I had looked it up and the MMR became available in 1971, three years before I was born. But I do agree with you, it's why I got my kids the chicken pox vaccine, even though it wasn't required for school when Taylor was eligible (two years later, by the time Maddie was ready, it was required). I don't understand, especially since the majority of these anti-vaxxers are all vaccinated themselves.

Over the weekend, there was another death from measles in Texas, which I think was the second. And, of course, we have a notorious anti-vaxxer in the role of Secretary of Health and Human Services. His dumbass told the people in Texas to up their vitamin A intake, something anti-vaxxers believe prevents measles and other things. But, because it's fat soluble (I believe), it's really easy to OD on, and of course, overdoses on vitamin A are on the rise. It's... stupidity at its finest.

And you thought you went on a rant! Hahaha. The worst thing though, is these people believe that measles isn't dangerous and that the kids that are dying are dying 'with' measles rather than from it and... I'm glad I'm no longer in Texas, that's all I got.

We can both just scream into the void together, I guess.

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

OMG! the downfall of humanity will definitely be that humans have gotten dumber instead of smarter since the internet!

Totally with you on the screaming into the void. 😱

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

It's like what George Carlin said, only a lot more evident these days: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

Thank you for listening at least! Now, I just have to make sure I don't forget to stop and pick up my tire tonight. I should have gone and gotten it on Saturday when they called, but I was being lazy. LOL

[thatwasjustadream (from livejournal.com)]

It's good you're knocking the to do list down, and great the kids are set!

I had my shingles shots- my gram had shingles, and i'll do whatever needed to avoid it. That vaccine wasn't horrible, but I would recommend doing it on a Friday. I felt like I had a bug for forty hours and then was fine.

Funny enough, I got my MMR booster in 2018 — long before the current outbreaks. I never wrote for my childhood records, so had no proof of vaccination. My doc did a titer to see what my immunity looked like. I was fine against measles but not for mumps. Zero immunity to mumps, which it turns out is somewhat prevalent in Hawaii! So booster it was.

[asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I want to say my FIL had it and no thank you! LOL The shot HURT but other than that, it was fine. I know it was the COVID vax that knocked me down because it did the same the first time. But better than the alternative for sure.

Oh nice, that's good to hear. And it makes so much more sense to just get the shot rather than risk it. Or, you would think it'd make sense. Hah.