In recent weeks I’ve gotten both my flu and COVID shots for the year.\u00a0 My husband mentioned this in passing and someone made the comment that I was “living in fear”.<\/p>\n
Ummmmm no.<\/p>\n
I’m vaccinated against all kinds of diseases including measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, shingles, tetanus,\u00a0 influenza and yes, COVID.\u00a0 Once I hit 60 I’m going to get the pneumonia vaccine too.<\/p>\n
I have diabetes, which puts me at a higher risk for serious complications from serious illnesses.\u00a0 Getting vaccinated means I am taking active steps to protect my health.\u00a0 It means I had discussions with my doctor about what treatments make sense for me and my unique health needs. It means that I trust science, not podcasters and certainly not a former heroin addict with a worm in his brain.<\/p>\n
Getting vaccinated is the exact opposite of living in fear.\u00a0 It’s me taking the best care of myself and those around me.\u00a0 If you can’t understand that I pity you- because you’re the one living in fear.<\/p>\n
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In recent weeks I’ve gotten both my flu and COVID shots for the year.\u00a0 My husband mentioned this in passing and someone made the comment that I was “living in fear”. Ummmmm no. I’m vaccinated against all kinds of diseases including measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, shingles, tetanus,\u00a0 influenza and yes, COVID.\u00a0 Once I hit 60 I’m going to get… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issues","category-myself"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/no-fear-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}