Did it really take a pandemic to make me realize the most basic fact about vaccination?

Reader, it did.

Today I am more than a tad embarrassed to read what I so smugly wrote 10 years ago … a smugness I wore perhaps to cover my insecurity, my mistrust of Big Pharma, my discomfort with doctors. With valid reason … but the comfort offered in the form of “making my own” vaccine schedule was, alas, misguided. The schedule I ended up with was probably just fine, in fact I could have modified it even further with no harm done. However my reasons for doing so ignored one basic fact.