First they said Covishield is the best.
Then they said, no Covaxin.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee?
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Not quite, it seems
Before the popular opinion generally veered around to elevating Covaxin to the top spot, we had our first jab – my wife and I. By this time every body we knew (and many we didn’t) was singing the praise of Tweedledee.
But the die was cast.
It is another matter that Ruby in the U.S. -my cousin/ my niece / my grandniece (depending on which section of the tangled web you are looking at, the one our fore-fathers and fore-mothers merrily wove, with complete disregard to complicating relationships in generations following) was feverishly researching the evil of vaccines of all pedigrees. I would be failing in my duty if I didn’t caution you that she is a formidable force – better stay away from her! English might have been her Major in W.C.C. but the blessed college has bestowed on her a fabulous mind of inquiry – of all and sundry!
Now let us leave Ruby aside; poor soul, let her in peace pursue her research!
Oh, the story goes…. they said it is best that you take the second dose, not in 4 weeks but 6 to 8 weeks. Being an engineer and all that I plumped for the arithmetical mean – 7.
So far…. so good.
Days 1, 2, 3, 4… it was like sailing in a placid sea, except that the good woman was tossing about in tea-cups quite a mite.
Then…. then…… then….the
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with a vengeance!
Fever..cough.. vomit – the works
then suddenly….nary a warning
black out, fall with a thud
floor red, smeared with blood
all but given up for dead
for all of an hour, just a dud
poor wife filled with dread
out of the scene quickly fled
somehow son went a-head
with help from a friend named Bern’d
and drove me away swelled head
and all in search of a bed
in a hospital where they read
scan after scan and said
“all clear”, but in a wholly different thread
Meanwhile I would have fain
joined the saints, but once again
Peter sent me back , it isn’t plain
all at once to ascertain
when the first time I did gain
that knowledge, nothing arcane
you simply must go back in terrain
and read Twentyfifth page to obtain
the reason why I must train
much more, lest I sound like a pain
when I sing the majestic refrain
of the glory of God in the main
and ever with Him reign !
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