Vaccine provocation

Got the flu vaccination today:


Should have peak protection at peak flu rate in Dixie.

Bob Wilson

 

I’ll have to check the paperwork. I’ve been getting it so long, I hardly remember it.

When I was a hiring supervisor, I always planned for employee outages during flu season. Productivity would fall off and about a week of absences. Even when they came back, not really firing on all cylinders. So iI got more interested on their progress an filled the gap. As ‘management, unpaid OT.

UPDATE: I got the 'big shot' (0..5 mg) but didn't even notice it except to show off my new vaccination T-shirt.


Whenever my hair grows out and I see the ghost of "Albert Einstein" staring back in the mirror, I get my quarterly hair cut and call it a day. Sad to say, my woman asked me to take off my 'prickly' mustaches that made me look older and more Einsteinium.

BTW, I take the annual vaccinations so I won't have to "Breathe Better", 99% pure oxygen.

Bob Wilson

 

Glad I took my flu shot on Friday. Saturday was rain and ran some errands. But Sunday morning, woke up to a malaise that lasted until Sunset.

Slight runny nose in the morning now clear. Two-three hours nap, wake and an hour or so later, nap time again. It is a familiar pattern that shows the vaccine works, a mild flu-like, recovery day but no fever or chest congestion.

If true to pattern, I'll wake Monday with energy and attitude.

LATE THOUGHT:

Using chicken stock, firm tofu, bok choi slices, cut up ham pieces, splash of soy sauce, and squeeze of Sriracha, a congestion clearing, hot soup.

Bob Wilson

 

Fond memories of Gary Larson:


Bob Wilson

 

Diversion: https://www.npr.org/2025/11/23/nx-s1-5618299/tatiana-schlossberg-kennedy-rfk-cancer-leukemia

Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former president John F. Kennedy, says she has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
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She made her diagnosis public in an essay, called "A Battle with My Blood," that was published on the website of The New Yorker on Saturday, the 62nd anniversary of her grandfather's assassination.

In the article, Schlossberg reveals that despite fighting the disease for over a year, her treatments did not result in a lasting remission and says the disease will kill her.
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her first cousin once removed, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

"Throughout my treatment, he had been on the national stage: previously a Democrat, he was running for President as an Independent," Schlossberg writes. "But mostly as an embarrassment to me and the rest of my immediate family."

She describes Kennedy's history of vaccine skepticism, inexperience in the medical field, and antipathy for the funding of medical research as her gravest areas of concern.

"Suddenly, the health-care system on which I relied felt strained, shaky," she writes.
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Perhaps not that far from similar threads. It would be ironic if the COVID vaccine effect increasing the chemical cancer treatments might lead to a better outcome.

Bob Wilson