vaccination three (the search for spock)

heya

many, or quite a few, or just some (well, one or two) were quite surprised when it turned out that what the ruling government of the day had told us might not have been accurate. generally speaking, we have a tendency to trust our elected governments, look you see. it is hardly ever that we are misled by them, or not too much. 

so, the idea put forward, that two stabs (jabs) of this miracle drug vaccination would be quite class, turned out to be not as correct as it should be in terms of winning the invisible war against the new plague. now we are under some pressure to go get a third one done. and likely a fourth (4th) one too, but maybe that only around easter or what have you. 

despite the three factors which suggest that i had no need for further stabs - had two already, have taken all precautions and according to scientific evidence i am immortal - for a quiet life, yes, i went right ahead and got this extra (third) one done. i appreciate such shall distress them anti-vax types, or those that would like harm to befall me, but it is done now. 

indeed that is one of them "lateral flow tests", what shows if you have plague or not. so far i have a perfect record of all negative results, which feels like a weird sentence. so far as i am aware i am expected to keep doing these tests, around twice a week or daily if i come into contact with someone infected, despite being uber-jabbed. 

quite an interesting sideline, or if you like cottage industry (not cottaging industry) has sprung up around these tests. once you have done one, it seems there is a market for the used test thing, irrespective of the result. some people out there rather like the idea of a week (or so) off verk or school, and will pay coins for a test that shows them to be infected, regardless of their status. by the same measure, there are a few anti-vax types what want to go to events like gigs and football matches, but will not get the vaccine. they shall happily pay for a test that shows they are negative. no, i advocate neither and do not engage in such, don't blame me for capitalism. 

unexpectedly, then, i am in a position where i can (kind of) evaluate more than one type of vaccine. for my first two jabs i got that posh sounding oxford one, or whichever one it is that the French are all so, so scared of. when it came to this third one, i got one of the others, that one that sounds rather too close to "manlove" for my liking, or that it is named in honour of that Glenn Medeiros bloke. 

whereas i doubt that i will ever be called on for a professional opinion, my view is that the oxford one is the better. after two jabs of that one i had limited side effects, just a bit of a tender arm for a day or so and that was it. not the case with this Glenn Medeiros Manlove version, oh no. north of two full days plus some hours later and my arm still f*****g knacks off it, so it does, and i feel rather light in head and tired. lethargic, even. maybe they gave me opium or similar by mistake. 

the vaccination that i would have wanted? well, probably the 'pizzer' one what Daz was selling for a fiver in one edition of The Viz. going on the article, it makes one's head swell to twice the normal size, and creates an impulse or urge to go round biting people. that sounds quite smart entertainment for a few hours. 

anyway, the way things are going, i suspect (or expect), should i survive them, reports on jabs four, five, seven and beyond to follow here. 

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!