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Someone I know, who lives in a part of the country where COVID-19 cases were incredibly low until recently and remain fairly low and who never socialises with anybody claims she had it in March. Now, this person is not an especially healthy person and her only symptom was an ongoing cough. 'I must be strong,' she says. She was never tested because when she finally did contact the NHS about the cough she refused to have a test. Now she says, 'And I'm not having the vaccine. It was rushed so it won't be safe.'


OK. But if you're strong, and there've been no worrying side-effects by the time you come to have it, what reason do you have? I didn't ask that question.


Besides, she said, no one knows how long the immunity will last. No, nor how long the immunity lasts from having had it, if she had it, which was another reason for not having the jab.


What about preventing other people from catching it if you carry it asymptomatically? Well, she said, I don't ever see any one. SO HOW DID YOU GET IT IN THE FIRST PLACE???


On the BBC website was a picture of the first man to get the Oxford vaccine. He was in his 80s and is on dialysis. Lives in the city. He's sitting there with his sleeve rolled up his slightly flabby white arm - not a fat man, but no muscle tone - he is in his 80s and on dialysis - and a mask on his dear face as a masked nurse leans forward and does the honour. 'I'm proud it was developed here,' he said. I burst out crying. The brave man, the grateful man, the noble man.


I don't understand how the person I know can be so smug, that's how it sounded, in her self-centredness. Like that is the nobility of life: to not give a flying fuck about anyone or anything else.

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