We just got back from Scottsbluff. I had a good conversation with the pharmacist about the shingles vaccine.

She said she was surprised we came sixty miles one way to get it. Both my wife and I pointed out seeing shingles in people we knew, and we damn sure didn’t want to get it. Sixty miles is nothing compared to that.

She noted my t-shirt (“Teach the controversy, with the five traditional elements of Greek thought arranged as a periodic table) and laughed at that.

I then said I’m really not a fan of anti-vaxxers. She demurred, probably because she didn’t want to offend anyone. After I called them “pro-plaguers,” the dam broke. While she sat with us to observe after the shots (to ensure there wasn’t some terrible effect like sudden fainting or an allergic reaction), the conversation turned to making fun of anti-vaxxers.