To the best of my knowledge I’ve never been vaccinated against anything; certainly not since I’ve been of an age to decide for myself. And though my childhood was in the '40s of last century, when vaccines were riding high as the miracle demi-gods of modern bio-science, my mam was a clued-up health-care professional who heard the gossip as well as the official myths in her work, so that - to the best of my memory - she seldom caved to the vaccination pressure.
I had measles, as a few days of coddled slight discomfort, but no other of the endemic illnesses which were around then. I was lucky in inheriting the genes of very sturdy and disease-resistant forebears, and also in having parents who understood the basics of conserving good health: prudent food, no destructive chronic addictions (apart from tea, which is actually more of a medicine than a destructive! ), plenty of outdoor air, exercise and sunshine, in peaceful natural settings (a deep need for my dad, who passed on his passion to me early in my childhood), vitamin supplements to our vitamin-deficient diets, and so on.
We were all also very lucky in that time in being almost completely unexposed to commercial-consumerist advertising and its horrendous effects on popular well-being (just look at the bloated, wheezing, blubber-laden, pharma-battered waddle-bags which so many USAmericans have become by now!).
All that abomination came later, as the post-Suez US domination of British life got going seriously, and the pro-US-empire faction of the English-raj class, who have dominated British politics ever since, super-glued their tongues to Washington’s collective fundament: Obedient attack-dogs in US imperial wars, and willing exposers of their - and our - own fundaments for the constant US corporate buggering of Britain and the Brits. This arrangement being materially very profitable for the palm-greased rajistas too, of course.
Somehow, I picked up the hesitancy vibes around inoculation early on in life. The word about the negative effects that vaccination can cause was never entirely suppressed. After achieving majority, neither I nor any dependent creature in my care ever got vaccination. And - not unrelatedly, I now suspect - we virtually never got seriously ill, simply encountering all the endemics floating about in the air-plankton, and dealing with them pretty well without discomfiting symptoms. Treating them, in fact, as the actually-vital genetic message-carriers which we’re now beginning to see them as being, rather than horrifying enemies to be defeated at all costs, as the official blabber still goes, more stridently than ever, now that vaccines are so hugely profitable, and also rather promising as intensifiers of authoritarian social control.
I don’t say that we understood this different, more benign assessment of the micro-organisms of the air-plankton formally, as people are beginning to understand it now. But we acted in the time-honoured way, not thinking about it much at all, and simply not getting all that sick. Those who did were the immune-compromised people - in some way - and they were relatively few, and mostly confined to the poorest and most deprived folk, who also got better and became more disease-resistance as basic social needs were extended to them by dedicated socialists in the first two-thirds of last century.
My record with living vaccine-free has been consistently good for both myself and my dependents: we sometimes injure ourselves accidentally, but we don’t usually get too ill from ‘pathogens’. And - thank the gods and Neu Bevan - we had the NHS as our long-stop all that time (since 1948).
Maybe this is why, when I’m asked if I will be getting the current pretend ‘vaccines’, I always say with great emphasis: “Not a chance! Do you think I’m mad?” It garners some queer looks these days. But the attitude has seen me alright for many years, including through this current grossly overblown panic over the covid swindle.
Should just add that I recognise that sometimes a vaccine may be useful and harmless. It may be so. But it needs to be proved beyond reasonable doubt before it’s even offered. And sure as hell they should never be either political footballs or - above all - sources of commercial profit.
PS: Still walking unmasked into shops and such now, and with never a query, or even so much as an off look coming my way lately. I think we’ve all just about had it with the ‘fight-covid!!!’ swindle, as the joys of Spring beckon. Apart from the sheepiest of us…