Have You Been Vaccinated?

Corona Virus sure brought a lot of damage not just in one or two country but all over the world. This pandemic really made the world upside down, changing the way we lived and we can’t go back to our simple and normal life just like before. If you are watching the news we all know what happened in India, a lot of people died, there’s a lot of covid cases every day, the hospitals are crowded, the frontliners were giving up and it’s breaking my heart seeing this people struggle but what we can do? The virus spreads like a wildfire that you cannot predict when you or the people around you can have. For every problem there’s a solution, a lot of scientist tried to make a vaccine just to fight the virus. After a lot of trial and error they able to create a solution and now there’s a vaccine against COVID-19. Different COVID-19 Vaccines where named, SINOVAC, PFIZER, MODERNA, ASTRAZENICA & MORE. We all know here in the Philippines the cases already reached millions and it’s hard to believe why it happened, now the government already had vaccines here which is the SINOVAC but it is only limited and not given to all. If you ever have a chance now and candidate to be vaccinated would you take it now?

I know others will want to be vaccinated by now but since the government had a priority listing it’s nearly impossible at the moment. I am a candidate to be vaccinated but I refused because I’m not convinced yet and undecided because of the possible long term side effect on my body. In priority list of DOH (Department of Health) I was included in Priority Eligible A which is A4: (Frontline personnel in essential sectors, including uniformed personnel) but I say NO on the vaccine for now. Our Big Boss and the CEO itself of our company wants us all to be vaccinated but since it’s not mandatory we still have our choice. Out of 400+ employees in our company only one half got vaccinated, others were undecided, others refused to get vaccinated and others were contraindicated to take the vaccine.

As the expert says the vaccine introduces inactivated form of virus into our body so our immune system will produce antibodies to defend on it so once the person that was vaccinated got the real active virus it will recognized by our defense system thus it protects us and eliminate it immediately. But why I still refused? It’s not just about it though I want to protect myself on the virus I’m still the one who carrying my own body. I know if it’s the right thing to do or not. I observed my colleague that take the vaccine some of them encounter this side effects, a lot of them experience pain on the arm and muscle that get injected at the same time, some of them get sleepy a lot, others have short breath experience and lastly almost all of them got fever for 1-2 to days. Based on the side effect I saw on my colleague I think some of it were proof that it’s not my time yet to be vaccinated because I also know how my body works and I think if I will get vaccinated my body might get weak but still depends I’m the one who decides for myself.

Out of 8 Personnel in IT Department 3 of us refused to be vaccinated, me, our senior programmer and my manager. We still want to see for ourselves what will be the possible effect to others and if it’s proven to be effective 100% we might change our mind and get vaccinated right away. Others might say that I need to be thankful because I’m in the priority list and at the same time candidate to be vaccinated but wasted because of my reasons. You cannot blame me because there’s someone I know that was close to me that almost died because of vaccine, I cannot told all the details but I can say it was one of the more reason why I still refused. I’m not afraid totally of COVID-19 but it’s hard to have one also what concerns me the most was the people around me and I don’t want them to be infected because of me.

Right now in order to protect myself from Covid-19, I always take 1000mg of Vitamins C at the same time eating healthy food. I always follow the health protocol such as wearing face mask, face shield and sanitizing myself with alcohol sometimes I can say that I am taking a bath of alcohol all over my body. Whenever I go outside to work, to other place, once I get home I sanitized my clothes, undress it outside our house and take a bath once I go home, as they said prevention is better than cure and the most important thing I did everyday was to pray to God for guidance and protection not just me but for my whole family. If you were in my place? Will you get vaccinated? It’s up to what you will choose and what you decide, my final question was have you been vaccinated? Feel free to leave your comment below and hope you like my article. Thank you for your time reading!