COVID vaccine side effects

I guess with anything you put into your body there is risk. I've been around several dozen people with different experiences, vaxxed and unvaxxed at this point. I've been exposed several times as well Personally, I don't know anyone who has died from Covid.

My son (27) had COVID last year and it was mild. He was unvaxxed at the time. He has since gotten the J&J shot and had no side effects. His wife (26, school teacher) was vaxxed when he was out with COVID and never got sick.

I had coworkers who had COVID with varying degrees of sickness...worse flu symptoms ever to a mild cold. All of them in their late 40's early 50's.

Everyone I know who had any of the vaccine available has had the basic complaints from arm pain to feeling bad for a day of two. I've had the booster and haven't had any side effects at all. Just arm pain and I was a little tired after the 1st shot. My daughters were (31 and 25) kind of wiped out for a day. My wife (57) hasn't been vaccinated but we think she had COVID last in May of 2020. She had all of the symptoms for 3 weeks except loss of taste and smell. My daughter and son-in-law (both vaxxed) got COVID over Christmas and both had very mild symptoms. I was at their house the day before and never got sick.

To me the whole mandate is over reach. I get it can be dangerous for some and if you are in that group then protect yourself. It's why I'm so jaded by the whole political aspects of it. The left go nuts for the unvaxxed and the right dig up every reason from every corner of the internet to claim you'll die. To each his own. You have to dig through the crap but in the end it's your choice.