Something made me furious this year. It was the announcement that approximately "ten percent" of people receiving the COVID vaccine would experience side effects. I'm all for the COVID vaccine. It has changed my life. I would urge everyone to get it. (A great thing, if you're a new parent, is that the trip to the COVID shot booth requires a lengthy solo drive, which means you can listen to the radio, e.g. an interview with Bill de Blasio about shady recycling practices, and no one will be crying in the back seat. This is like a tropical beach vacation.) But: only "ten percent" of cases involve side effects? Literally everyone I've talked to experienced side effects from the COVID vaccine. Everyone. The one exception I can think of is a Tweet from Stephen King's son, the horror novelist Joe Hill. (I don't know Joe Hill.) On Twitter, Joe Hill maintains that he felt nothing after the COVID vaccine. I write all this because I had an exasperating ex...