The nurse might object when you lower your pants for the booster shot though

 

If storage is inadequate then any vaccine will be as useful as a placebo! I note that major stores cannot keep frozen food frozen - so perhaps??? This particularly concerns me with recent lengthy electricity cuts due to Odette.

 

It is not only the booster shot gap being reduced but I know someone given an 8 week gap for the second dose of AstraZeneca and then being called in after 5 weeks. That is a big no-no. Twelve weeks is best (and there are various articles available that indicate a long space between vaccines is preferable) but there is marginal loss for an 8 week gap. But 5 weeks seems like a desire to count numbers or use up close-to-expiry vaccines or a lack of knowledge.

 

Yep, that's what I was getting at about the boosters. It doesn't sound like anyone is concerned with the science, just using up vaccines before they expire.

 

I got Sinovac in June/July, too. It was the only thing available to me and I figured I might as well get something. Psychologically, I never really "felt" vaccinated because I always thought getting Sinovac was equivalent to saline shots in the arm. To put my mind at ease, I worked out getting in on a corporate program in Manila where I could get Moderna. (Ok, yes I had to lie about having had the Sinovac in order to be eligible for the Moderna, but I was paying for these shots plus two trips to Manila!) I had Moderna shots in Nov/Dec. Then, last week, I got my Pfizer booster 3 months after Moderna.

I am a firm believer in the usefulness of vaccines. Had a flu shot in January; in Feb a household member who doesn't bother with flu shots because fear of reactions, caught the flu and was absolutely miserable for more than a week with it. I never caught it, though I continually had fairly close contact.

I have been taking annual flu shots since high school (decades and decades ago) and, along with many other vaccinations for various things, I have never had any reaction to the shots other than a mild soreness for a day or two at the injection site.

Occasionally I come across an anti-vaxxer who immediately smugly bloviates about individual rights and freedoms. I just laugh and tell them to take 2 Ivermectins and call the ambulance in the morning. I suggest as a courtesy they give the coroner a heads-up call, too. For some reason they don't think that is as nearly funny as I do.

 

Nurses here in the Philippines are very anxious to please. I am certain she (or he) would be happy to stick that needle in you exactly as you suggest. I think it's a GREAT idea for you.

 

You figured you may as well get a shot, felt it didn't do anything, and then insult people who care about individual rights and freedoms. My guess is you've gotten used to wiping your @ss with your head because you feel like using your hands makes them dirty. I dare say you got it stuck, sir.

 

someone needs a nap ...