I’m personally more worried about the effects of Covid-19 than I am about the effects of the vaccine. 
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Yeah, doing a little research, it looks like the covid and shingles vaccines have similar side effects. I have been putting off getting the shingles vaccine. But I’m a LOT more frightened of covid than I am of shingles, partly for reasons related to my personal medical history, partly because bad covid is worse than bad shingles.
I won’t be putting off getting the covid vaccine.
i didn’t realize there was a shingles vaccine until i got cable where they are constantly playing that commercial telling people 50 or older to get the shingles vaccine.
Just got first (of two) shingles vaccine. Side effect: it hurt like hell for a day or two.
One of the “personal medical history” reasons is that my doctor predicts I will have a more-unpleasant-than-average reaction to the shingles vaccine.
My wife got shingles. It was painful… for me to live through. She said it was worse for her. We agreed to disagree.
My husband had a very mild case of shingles, and it was annoying. My grandfather had a more serious case of shingles, and it was pretty freaking bad.
I’m getting shingles shots as soon as I can get them.
It sucked bad enough that I got chicken pox when I was 15 and gave me long-lasting scars. Shingles sounds even worse.
Yeah everyone I’ve known who has had shingles has suffered way more than I did with Covid. I think I was very fortunate with Covid, but still.
I’ll get both. I should go get the shingles shot now since I’ll stay at the back of the line for the Covid shot. Not bc I’m afraid of it, but bc I probably already have a reasonable amount of immunity and so will let others go first.
Who knows what the guidelines will be, but if the “experts” don’t feel previous experience should put you in a lower group you should feel free to get it when your group is called.
My grandmother got shingles in/around her eye. That sounded like the worst experience ever.
I have a friend who got shingles at 27, on his back. He was lucky and it wasn’t that bad.
Getting back to COVID – a few documents from the CDC on vaccine distribution:
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2020-11/COVID-04-Dooling.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0EMODvmYl4KzSKE0B-ZS_r9Y9gB93mDtt0ulzJhRaGY6GREAGdha4rLpk
From the NYT (first paragraph included just to give context to the second)
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Hmm. Seems we might not have to decide what to do for at least one of my kids, at least as far as the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine goes:
So, we don’t know how long immunity from the vaccine will last, we have to go back for a second shot 4 weeks later, and it definitely needs to be done in a doctor’s office or better, because I don’t want my pharmacist trying to resuscitate me on the pharmacy floor, etc. We have about 60% adherence on average (way more/way less in specific areas) for the flu vaccine. Is there really going to be good uptake of this vaccine? 
Well, no one’s really that scared of dying from the flu – the vast majority of folks I know who get flu shots largely do it to avoid the inconvenience of getting sick, or out of a desire to protect others (older relatives, etc.). But folks are plenty scared of dying from COVID and that, together with various mandates (whether from employers, schools, whatever), will probably get enough participation.
Can’t say I really object to having a few million guinea pigs ahead of me in line, though.
The answer is probably yes for me. I believe at-risk people and essential workers will be prioritized first in my state, so by the time I can get it, which will probably be months after the first shipments arrive, it will likely be a no-brainer as we see cases trending downwards.
I don’t understand, what’s in the vaccine that is causing allergic reactions? Why would someone deathly allergic to peanuts need to avoid this vaccine? Shouldn’t we be able to do a scratch test on those with other severe allergies a couple minutes before they receive the vaccine to test if they are allergic?
An allergic reaction is an immune reaction. Folks with severe (need an epi-pen) allergies have over-active immune systems that tend to over-react to lots of things, though hopefully to a lesser extent than the get-treatment-or-die reaction they have to their primary allergies. And this vaccine dumps a ton of foreign proteins into your system.
Could they test folks before hand? Maybe? Though scratch tests are very inaccurate (lots of false positives). Mind you they’d need to make the scratch tests, and they’re kind of busy just making the vaccine treatments. Plus there’s no shortage of other folks they could give the shots to – to the extent you just want to get to herd immunity you can ignore problematic small groups. (EDIT: Particularly if they’re fairly homogenously dispersed throughout the population, like I’d imagine folks with severe allergies are.)