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Njsurveyman, I also had Moderna, both shots. There is a difference between being sick and feeling sick. We're not sick after the shot, it's normal to feel crummy as the immune system kicks in. I had fever, chills and slept for about 48 hours straight, just came up for food and a few minutes here and there. The technology isn't new...yes the vaccine was rushed because we had a crisis but the trials went on for months and is still going on. My friends who were in the trial still have to go back and report any effects over a year later. You said they are new...not so. The technology is old. MRNA has been used with other vaccines. The decision is of course up to you, I don't know if you got shot #2 but personally, I would rather feel lousy for a day or two (I did have a headache fo a week!) than get covid.There are a lot of youtubes on Moderna 2nd vaccine that are interesting, some even funny because you have to look at it with some humor, you feel lousy, ride through it as a normal reaction and wait it out. I'm sorry you had a really bad time with it.

I did have a problem a couple months ago I emailed them and never got a response but I fixed it myself but still thought they would respond they used to be great with getting back to you.

The one I did for 20/20 was a five month one where I got $250 in Amazon. It was on COVID as was online, and it was not that bad. I have also been doing one online on Medicare too, and with that one I get at least one $10 Amazon GC per month for being involved in it. It only takes me about 10 minutes to make the $10. I have only done one over the phone, and that one was easy too, and I got $100 for that one. The live one I did in Chicago back in February they sent me a virtual VISA card, which I am going to have to use soon. It is only good for three months. I got a notice from the city of Chicago a few weeks ago, that I drove past a camera that determined that I did 6 miles over the speed limit on my way to the panel, and they sent me a warning this time, but next time I am going to get a ticket. I don't go down that street more than once or twice a year, but I am going to be more careful when I do. I think the ticket will be $35 if they catch me again.

I had both of the Pfizer shots. The only side effect I got was a really sore arm for about 24 hours after the second shot. I personally only know one person who had lots of side effects. She had the Moderna, and only had the first shot, and refuses to get the second shot. She actually reported her side effects to the CDC. She passed out a few times and had lots of pain. She told me though her Father who is no longer living, had one flu shot in his whole life, and had severe side effects from it. There might be something going on in her genes. Yes the technology they have been studying for eight years, and so this is not entirely new. I had one friend who got COVID and died from it, and I have one friend who came down with COVID on Thanksgiving day, and went to the ER, and was in the hospital for 18 days, including two days on a vent, and she is still on supplemental oxygen. We also had a very well known restaurant owner here in Evanston, who was 72, and had had a liver transplant, and came down with COVID in June, and died from it. He actually did a few promos for the city, encouraging people to wear their mask. I don't know if I would have worked in his BBQ restaurant dealing with customers all day, if I had had a liver transplant. His obituary was on Sunday Today, the PBS News Hour, and in the New York Times. Somebody in my family now is on the fence about getting the vaccine, because it has not been tested enough, and plus there is a chance that she had an asymptomatic case of COVID, and if she did she feels that she does not need the vaccine, which is not true. She was going to get tested the last time I talked to her to see if she did have COVID. She lives in Michigan where cases are really high right now. I just assumed the yougov survey was done by parents, and that is why I did not get it. Some parents in the Chicago area are anxious for their kids to get the shot, and one mother said her 17 year old daughter was petrified about getting COVID, and so she drove her 200 miles so she could get the shot ASAP. I know another 17 year old who wants to get the shot because she wants to go to a wedding next month.

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