Shingles concerns me far more than the Germ. My wife got Shingles a couple years ago and was knocked on her ass for weeks. She had it on the ball of one foot and the heel of another and ended up throwing her back out so bad that she couldn't go anywhere for a week. Shingles can get in your eye and cause blindness.

Supposedly shingles prevalence is massively increasing because the theory is that exposure to chicken pox in adulthood keeps your immune system in check but now that chicken pox prevalence has plummeted due to the chicken pox vaccine. People in their 30s are now getting shingles, which was unheard of in the past. I will never take the COVID jab but I'm getting Shingrix within a week of turning 50.

The COVID jab mania caused a record amount of distrust in the medical system but this jab is one where the reward is well worth any risk because shingles sucks so fucking bad.