Got offered a free flu and covid vaccine

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Situation: I had COVID twice in October and December 2019.
The second time, the pneumonia was severe.
I was dying.
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It took me 6 months to get better.
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Regarding vaccines: I'm always terribly ill.
I remember my childhood, when I was very young, and with the first vaccines I was dying.
It has nothing to do with the technology; it was conventional, even though today's technique already existed and could be done.
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In 2021, I got my first dose of the Pfizer COVID vaccine, but I felt terribly ill immediately afterward.
I recovered with enormous difficulty after months. I risked thrombosis and stroke. Case reported: they didn't care.
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I needed it for travel. I got the second one after waiting 6 months because I had read that scientific research indicated that the effects of 180 days were less invasive.

Disaster: I've been terribly ill.

I'm not writing. - "I'd be very careful, because it's better to catch COVID (variant) than to vaccinate a vacuum-packed nothing, because it wouldn't be right of me to do so. Everyone decides for themselves what to do, and for some it doesn't cause any problems. I'm not against vaccines, anyway."

I find vaccinating the variants to be medically pointless.
Vaccinating people used to mean (previously) just one or two people for life, but that's no longer the case.

This isn't an invitation not to get vaccinated: it wouldn't be correct if I wrote that; do what you think is best for you.
Of course, it doesn't make much sense for a young person without any major pathologies to get vaccinated: I would find it rather illogical and unscientific.
Not only is it silly, but also because the State buys those vaccines, and it's a huge cost to healthcare, even non-public ones. At least I'm absolutely against wasting the State's money. Even if it paid for them, you'd still be paying a penny of the cost.

We autistic people are very sensitive to drugs (adverse effects, not side effects, and they're completely normal, so there's nothing strange about them).

I'll definitely never get a third one: I'd die.

I've reported all these things to the Ministry of Health: I'm waiting for a response.

From 2021!

I only once had a flu jab, whilst in college, and ended up with what turned out to be my first attack of Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome. Are they connected? I’ve come across others that had the same experience.

That was a long time ago, and wouldn’t offer advice on that basis, but given a choice, I’d rather have had flue. Happily the fourth cycle didn’t materialize, a very good thing as they got steadily worse each time. During the third cycle I was practically reduced to a vegetable, interested in nothing, just staring at the walls all day long. Reminds me of a lot of normal people!

I'm glad they gave me a reason via message, because I kept thinking that it was because I have ASD plastered all over my medical records.

I'm not superior to autistic people or anything (far from it lol), but the reason why I hate being treated differently than the rest is because of the childhood trauma I had of being 'that kid with the label' and everybody and their dog were told about it and I felt embarrassed because I didn't like being different, and I basically had my hand held all through school. Yes it had its benefits but I think I'd rather have just been "the quiet kid at the back of the classroom with learning difficulties" than "the kid with the fancy label that nobody else has and it makes her stand out because she has a learning support worker with her in class, therefore she's weird and has some sort of retardation disease". I hated it. So now as an adult I want to be my own person, I do not want a diagnosis following me around all my life, hindering and cramping my style. If I find myself in a situation where I do need help then I don't mind receiving it if I ask, but not when I don't need the help.

When I was a younger adult, before I got a job, I used to fret and worry about what to put on job application forms in the disability box. The option of not disclosing didn't occur to me, because I was so used to people being told I had ASD before I even met them, that I just thought everyone had to know about it for the rest of my life and beyond the grave otherwise I'd, like, be breaking the law or something. That's what I believed for quite a long time, until I joined autism sites and found out that like 99% of adults with autism go around without even knowing they have it, and I'm not just talking about adults who grew up before autism was widely known about, I'm talking about people of my generation and younger.
Then it hit me, I thought to myself "hold on, employers don't have to know about my diagnosis, nobody will know or care if I don't disclose, it is not illegal not to disclose, and they're not watching me. I'm free!"

So there you have it. Funny how childhood experiences can really shape your perspectives into concrete in adulthood.