4 Reasons to Get the Vaccine

That don’t involve lollipops.

Photo by Brecht Deboosere on Unsplash

Hopefully, I’m preaching to the choir here and no one who is not immunocompromised or otherwise unable to receive a jab has any doubts about this, but there have been a few reports of vaccine refusal among certain populations. So, in case any of you or any of your friends or relatives are still on the fence about being made immune from a potentially fatal and highly contagious pathogen, here’s four reasons to go forth and get your jab.

1. Immunity to a Potentially Fatal Disease

Come with me if you want to live. Get it? It’s Arnold Schwarzenegger as a syringe full of vaccine. Shut up; I’m funny. (Terminator 3, Columbia Pictures, 2003)

This one’s pretty straightforward. And it’s what I consider the Arnold Schwarzenegger motive for getting vaccinated. Covid-19 is technically a really bad cold, but it’s such a bad cold that it’s killed 2.78 million people with 127k of those deaths occurring in the UK and 549k in the US.

Moreover, there’s not really much indication of who might have the worst reactions to it. Clearly, people over about fifty or sixty years of age fair much worse than those in younger age brackets as do those with certain conditions and health histories, but there have been strokes in people in their thirties, Olympic…