Really regretting getting the Covid jab (warning pity party)

[FlemCandango]

I had my COVID vaccination on Saturday. I have had all the available boosters since lockdown as I have had some health issues that put me in a "slightly vulnerable to COVID" category.

Went to local chemist had the jab and a charity shop mooch, then came home all fine. 10-12 hours later I start feeling ropey. I know I might be in for a rough night as I have been known to react badly. So I had violent chills, followed by feverishness, crazy fever dreams, headache untouched by paracetamol, couldn't get out of bed for a wee without help, joint pain, nausea, loss of appetite ... This went on for 24 hours. I was still a wreck on Monday, so day off work, Tuesday tired but felt better and felt normal by the evening. I expected to be back at work today.

Then in the middle of the night, chills again I was shivering violently, headache returned plus sore throat and a cough. Most likely an opportunistic virus 🦠 but I am wondering why I put myself through all this🙄

Not sure if the net benefit outweighs the massively inconvenient time off work and feeling like shit-ness of it all.

I will think hard before taking the next booster if offered. I have the flu jab every year - never any issues with that one.

@Jumpingthruhoops

Do you mind terribly if I post a reply to this?

Lots of reasons, including, but not limited to:
-Because people genuinely believed they were doing something for the 'greater good' and couldn't understand those who wouldn't/couldn't do the same, whatever their reasons.
I felt my vaccination was for me, and to a lesser extent, my family. I never viewed in terms of 'the greater good' or that it was my duty to be vaccinated to help the population as a whole, although I understood that the more people that were vaccinated, the better. That didn't inform my decision individually, though, and I didn't see the decisions of others through that lens.

-Because people are suspicious of those who don't 'conform'; they view this defiance as a judgement/slight on their own behaviour. Cue accusations of: 'You think you're better than us!' Just for daring to make a different decision.
Well, no. I don't understand how someone else not being vaccinated is a judgement on my behaviour, and that particular accusation never occurred to me.

-Because those who felt peer/financially pressured to take the vax, resent those who felt able to resist, even more so if they were then among those injured, so they lash out.
I think this one is ill-thought, particularly on this thread.

I don't know that there's many that resent or admire those who resisted the vaccination.

And a multitude of other reasons - but these are the main ones.
Two that I can think of is the near universal aggression of people like this, and their lack of scientific literacy. These things, in turn, create hostility.

Everything you've said @CouchCat

Agree @CouchCat. There’s also a huge element of “had enough of experts” with vaccine deniers. You’re not a scientist, so listen to the people who are and are working for people who do not have it in their interests to let loads of people die/be disabled/have to be shut up in their houses for months if they can avoid it! (You being the vaccine deniers).