Considering Vaccination?

 Sound reasons for getting vaccinated:

* you have serious health issues and cannot risk getting ill

* generally speaking, you want to protect yourself, your family and your whanau from a virulent disease which may maim or even kill you

* you work in a critical environment, such as a hospital or aged care facility and cannot risk transmitting a disease to others at risk.

Poor reasons for getting vaccinated:

* you are offered a free sausage outside the vax centre

* you are offered a free burger and fries at some burger joint just down the road from the vax centre

* you may win a spot prize of a few dollars or gift vouchers that can only be redeemed at stores not closed due to lockdowns

* you may go into the draw to win a million dollars

* vax centre staff approach you in a mall and say they've got jabs going spare, do you want one?

* your employer says your unvaccinated status is a health risk to others and they want to keep the workplace safe. Why your individual health status is their business is another question for another time, but yeah, nah, bad reason for getting the jab right there

* the government say get it or else, house arrest, travel disallowed, you may be starved to death

* door to door goon squads may chase you down and forcibly administer the jab

* you are not being part of the team

* you want things to return to normal.

My advice, make getting vaccinated a good reason. Ensure what is injected into your arm is actually a vaccine, a real vaccine, and not something experimental and untried on human populations before without extensive clinical trials. But heh, some people do hang glide over live volcanoes and there is one blowing its top at the moment in the Atlantic, so go for it if you're a risk taker.