Why do they still stick needles in us?

Carol Burt
3 min readMay 8, 2021

Isn’t it a little barbaric and old fashioned? I mean, aren’t we in an enlightened age? We can put a man on the moon (well, they said we did) and we can’t figure out a better way to get vaccines and medicines in than to take a long, sharp, nasty needle and jab it into our skin about a foot deep. Well, not a foot, but it might as well be.

I got my Covid shots but man it scared me half to death.

And why do they think showing people getting a needle stuck an inch into their arm is going to make us excited to get our vaccine? Television news…

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Carol Burt

Former print journalist, former mayor, retired law enforcement officer. Writing about politics and government along with random personal essays.