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title: "Vaccinated"
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- opinion
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Everything went fine. Social media is awash with anecdotes about getting
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vaccinated, side effects, and opinions about _other_ people becoming
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vaccinated. I recently crossed the waiting threshold after my last dose and
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felt I should share my experiences as well.
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I had numerous colleagues take days off of work to lie in bed and endure what
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sounded like the unpleasant side effects developing antibodies. In contrast, I
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felt _nothing_ out of the ordinary at any point during the vaccination process.
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At no point did I even slow down my normal work, exercise, or eating habits,
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and I have a hypothesis as to why.
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It is unlikely that I am in some secret control group, so I am guessing there
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is something about my physiology causing no noticeable side-effects. I am
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fairly fit, eat vegetarian, and in my 30s. I am also a european-descendant
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white guy, a particularly common configuration across the United States. Many
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but not all of my colleagues and friends who suffered ill-effects after their
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shots were of Asian or Indian heritage. This is **not** data and
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correlation/causation blah-blah, but I do wonder how [diverse the clinical
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trials](https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015/12/401156/diversity-medical-research-long-way-study-shows)
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were for the various COVID vaccines or mRNA technology developed in the
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many years prior. Regardless, not a single person I know suffered _serious_
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side-effects; at worst mild flu=like symptoms manifested and were gone within a
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day or two.
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Despite the inconvenience, we are all now significantly more resistant to COVID
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and less likely to contribute to the propagation of the virus. As a bonus many
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have also noted a slight increase in their 5G reception.
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