ROTHENBURGER: Come Tuesday, I’ll be rolling up my sleeve for the new jab

WHEN THE NEW COVID VACCINES are unboxed next week, I’ll be rolling up my sleeve for my jab. In fact, I’ve already scored an appointment for Tuesday, and will get my annual flu vaccine at the same time.

Many won’t, and that’s up to them. Many will also refuse to break out the masks again, and that, too, is up to them.

Along with respiratory illness season, it’s also conspiracy season. You know, the one in which the theorists reveal to us how COVID vaccinations are a world plot by “them” to control our minds.

The more rational anti-vaxxers stick to presenting a never-ending stream of links to various sites and reports they believe prove the vaccines we’ve been getting do nothing to prevent spread, and that the natural immunity we get from having gotten the virus (and survived it) is still the best kind.

The new COVID vaccine that will be available next week targets new strains of the virus — with names consisting of letters and numbers that nobody knows or remembers — that the older vaccines don’t. I’ve actually been waiting for quite a while for the new one to come out rather than getting the booster for the previous versions.

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Mel Rothenburger is a regular contributor to CFJC Today, publishes the ArmchairMayor.ca opinion website, and is a recipient of the Jack Webster Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. He has served as mayor of Kamloops, school board chair and TNRD director, and is a retired daily newspaper editor.  He can be reached at mrothenburger@armchairmayor.ca.