Dealing with vaccine hesitancy

I spent last month in my husband’s home country. The main purpose of the trip was for us to get vaccinated and to ensure that his parents did the same. At the time of travel, vaccine priority had not reached my age group. Having the choice as to whether to get inoculated has always been important to us, not necessarily because we don’t trust science, but because we also wanted to ensure that my husband would have a vaccine that wouldn’t hamper his work-related travel.

To be able to uproot your life for a month to ensure you get the vaccine you want is a privilege I don’t take for granted. The decision for us had always been an easy one, our only concern was to get a vaccine that would be widely accepted. We experienced no side effects. For us, it was the easiest thing apart from the tiring drive to get to my husband’s home country.