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Your doctor is one resource to be used, there are others on the Internet I find credible.  At times, the "answer" really is "kinda maybe".

One problem when talking about about vaccines and the resulting "whistle-blowing" that can happen is that our bodies all respond differently, just as they do with medications.  If a vaccine gets released and is touted to be safe, and a very small percentage of people have severe and detrimental reactions to it, people go nuts and don't trust anything anymore.  

That all happened with the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.  

In reality, when things have been longitudinally studied, we know about those risks, they're explained to patients, and then when the exact same thing happens at the exact same rate, it's not news.  

My main issue, in retrospect, is not what happened with all of that.  It's how we (I say "we" because as mentioned, I found myself in a position of telling our patients all the time the latest "info") were given "info" with such certainty, and how I passed it on to patients with such certainty.  And when things kept changing, we said other, contradicting stuff with certainty.  And now a lot of it has been exposed for its lack of certainty at the time, and I shake my head at myself because even back then it didn't make sense to me how "they" knew for sure, without long-term study, what the virus was going to do, and what the vaccines were going to do, and still I bought every new info update because I trusted "they" knew what they were talking about.  It's highly likely at this point considering multiple ongoing evidences that "they" knew at the time they were just putting out whatever info herded people into the behavior they thought should happen, and ostensibly hoped for the best.  And I played along with it.  And I hate that.  

My wife has a heart murmur now, her cardiologist believes probably due to the vax (not provable, obviously, but multiple facts line up with the theory with none contradicting it), and there's no telling what that could lead to in the future.  Could be nothing, could be something.  Possibly because of a thing we thought we should do that in retrospect neither of us would do.   

I figure the value of a vaccine is a calculus between some possible side effect and the effects/risks/chances of contracting the malady.  For RSV, my doctor and I decided the vaccine was not worth it.  For shingles, it pretty clearly was.  For flu, I'm not getting them, and COVID shots as well, annually.  The COVID shot for me I think is borderline. 

 

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I'd like to see the look on a foreign doctor's face after someone contracted the measles by hooking up with an Amish chick.

My Dad wanted me to go to med school.  I didn't really know this, it wasn't overt, but he arranged for me to visit my cousin who was in med school in Augusta, so I went and stayed with him over a weekend.  He showed me around the school, and his cadaver.  The visit had the opposite effect on me that my Dad would have liked.

I probably couldn't have got in anyway.

Welp, my mortgage has jumped up another $110/mo., mainly due to a reassessment of property taxes. 

I have got to learn how to dispute that.  I've heard about people doing it for years and seen people here talk about it, but I know so little about how they get assessed and how to go about doing anything about it that I just sigh and pay it. 

Your county tax assessor-collector's office will have a review board. You can appeal to them, show them reasons why their assessment is too high, like recent comps that are lower, or damage to your property that's not accounted for in the county's appraisal, or whatever.

One thing with mine, I am pretty sure they use an inflation metric, they don't really inspect the property.  The last time a condo really comparable to ours sold was 7 years ago ... when we bought it.