Hang Over without the good part, Gone too far?

So I received my second Moderna shot yesterday morning around 10:30 AM.  During the day I drank more water than normal and had my Tylenol on call.  The tech that gave me the shot advised that I only take the Tylenol if I start feeling poorly.    Hell I even went to the gym yesterday at lunch.  The soreness in the injection spot had started already but was not severe enough to prevent me from doing a bi/tri routine.

As the afternoon progressed the pain in the arm continued to slowly radiate outward and I could feel a sense of general malaise coming over me.  It was nothing crippling but I definitely did not feel normal.  Last night the feeling of blah increased but I still was able to function more or less normally although I did head back to bed earlier than normal.  I had a difficult time falling asleep, despite feeling tired both mentally and physically.

Overnight was not pleasant.  I felt like I had a fever and had weird spikes of pain in both of my arms. My entire right shoulder felt like I had been shot with a gun. I felt bad enough that I got up at 2AM and finally popped the Tylenol.  When I looked at myself bleary eyed in the mirror my face and body all looked very red and flushed.  I eventually fell back asleep although I don’t think it was very restful as the side effects continued, although dulled by the Tylenol.  I woke up with the alarm feeling severely hung over but functional enough to drag myself into work.  The stories I have heard from others is the side effects, once they start reversing should clear up pretty quickly.  I have conference calls today anyway so it is just as well.

It feels good to have the vaccination behind me.  In two weeks I will be fully vaccinated by all current standards although I feel like I was already pretty much there with one shot in the arm and my likely Covid infection in December of 2019.  Next week our office is lifting the mask mandate for staff and it was already optional for customers so I guess the timing of my second shot works out pretty well.

I have been reading multiple accounts of employers struggling mightily to fulfill open jobs.  It seems like one of the large causes behind this is currently there is a large disincentive to work if you are benefiting from the expanded unemployment benefits.  Not only has the period of time you can collect benefits been extended but the amount you collect has been increased dramatically.  The end result of this is in many people’s cases they can actually make MORE money by not working, which seems insane.  Unfortunately many human beings don’t have a real work ethic and sleep fine at night allowing the government to pay for their existence.  My brain is not wired that way.

When the pandemic started there absolutely was a crushing need for support by the government as businesses closed. Since most Americans live check to check, people were immediately in dire straits.  However at this point, with the majority of the country open or nearing normal operations, if you are still willingly suckling off the governments teet, you just don’t care.  You aren’t building your career, you aren’t saving for your future, you are just doing the short term, easy thing because you care too little to be bothered by big picture scenarios or the long term impact, IMO.