I really hate needles, but …

I'm getting the vaccine and here's why you should too

I hate needles.

I've suffered from an irrational fear of injections since first grade, when Frau Drausinger lined up our class at the Volksschule and we all got immunized against who-knows-what. I wanted to bolt out of line, but peer pressure kept me frozen in place.

Today, with COVID-19 ravaging the world, it's another kind of fear that will drive me to …