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As a 60 year old retired man in excellent health, I had to decide if I should take the vaccine(s) being offered in my hometown just outside Houston, Texas. Cut to the chase- yes I did and very early on. In February of 2020 me and a neighbor who also was healthy and around age 55 went to the City of Houston health center and secured one of the first doses.
Cut to June 2022- I have not been boosted or otherwise vaccinated further. Why not? What have we learned about the risks? I maintained my healthy lifestyle and went about my retired life without fear but certainly with caution.
The curious thing was at the time I got the first dose of Moderna, there were news stories about doctors being arrested for providing shots of the vaccines to non-eligible persons. I was given a personal contact at the Houston Health center by a Justice of the Peace here. I believe they could not get enough willing vaccine recipients early on so they expanded the “qualified list” to get people going.
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