Sharing about your discomfort or side effects from the covid vaccine primes your readers: your experience has no bearing on their experience, but if they expect to feel worse, the placebo effect guarantees they will feel worse– and it may contribute in its own small way to readers skipping the vaccine entirely.

All vaccines, medicines, chemicals, and foods can trigger side effects that are unique to you and no one else; the human body is miraculous! Casual complaints and warnings on this vaccine are a net loss for public health, and so I feel they should be avoided. Godspeed!