Excellent article @agmoore. Everything about this pandemic gives a lot to think about, in my case, here in Venezuela they were placing the Russian and the Chinese vaccine (Sinopharm), you could not choose which of the 2 to place, it all depended on what the nurses on duty wanted and the availability of vaccines at the time. The anxiety and fear of going to the health center was enormous because of everything that was said about the vaccines, however, in the end I got 2 doses of the Sinopharm. With the first dose I had a skin reaction with small red spots that appeared all over my body after a few minutes, I also felt very sleepy. The second dose did not cause any effect, but then the government notified me that I had to take more doses to reinforce and I did not do it. After 3 months I got COVID, probably one of the worst things I have ever gone through in my life, but I had no respiratory problems, the doctors told me it was thanks to the vaccine, but who knows haha.
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Oh no! I'm not a xenophobe but those vaccines do not have good track records. I am very sorry you got that reaction (good thing it wasn't worse!) and that you were so sick with COVID.
What can we do, but cross our fingers and hope for the best? We read, we are careful and then we take our chances. That's life, isn't it?
Thanks so much for reading my long blog. I really appreciate it.
Be well my friend (and friend to all living things🐝), @abneagro.
I just noticed I didn't upvote your wonderful comment. Sorry my friend, @abneagro
Oh don't worry @agmoore :).
On the other hand, here in my country there were also very bad references regarding these vaccines, so there was a lot of fear to go get them, in the end everyone ended up assuming the risks. However, when the vaccination days began I never heard of very strong side effects, everything was reduced to minor discomfort, as happened to me with my skin reaction and the feeling of wanting to sleep. Now, the one I did hear very bad references about in countries such as Mexico was AstraZeneca, but I do not know how true the news of people dying of heart attacks at the time of vaccination were, since there is also a lot of manipulation by the media.