Record of Symptom Search Restraint
The search was not completed. The restraint lasted four minutes. The search was then completed.
Search: "is it normal to feel tired after vaccine"
Search: "vaccine fatigue day 2"
Search: "vaccine side effects duration"
Tab closed.
The tab was closed because the previous occasion when a symptom search was completed, the results produced seventeen possible explanations for a symptom that resolved on its own within forty-eight hours. Of the seventeen explanations, twelve required a follow-up test. Three required imaging. One required immediate emergency care.
The symptom was fatigue from a long Thursday.
Tab reopened.
Search: "vaccine arm soreness day 2 normal"
The Restraint
Someone restrains a symptom search because the last search was not useful. The last search was not useful in the sense that the information it produced did not help and required a secondary search to contextualize the original results. The secondary search produced a forum post from 2014 that was not applicable but was read in full.
Restraint from symptom search is temporary and resolves at the point of maximum anxiety, which is typically between eleven PM and midnight.
Search: "covid vaccine symptoms second day how long"
Search: "chills after covid vaccine normal"
The Resolution
The search is supposed to reduce uncertainty. Completing it often produces a larger list of things to be uncertain about. The list is authoritative because it comes from a source that is accurate in the specific sense that the conditions it describes are real conditions that exist and have been documented by people who had them, none of whom are the person conducting the search, whose symptoms differ in at least two significant respects.
The two significant respects are not investigated further tonight.
Search: "should I call doctor after covid vaccine side effects"
Search: "when to seek medical help after vaccine"
The second search returns a set of warning signs. The warning signs are reviewed. None are present.
The person closes the laptop.
Postscript
The symptoms resolved by the following afternoon. This outcome was the most probable outcome as indicated by the sixth search result from the first search, which was read and then discounted in favor of the ninth result, which was more alarming and therefore more memorable.
The ninth result described a condition affecting 0.003 percent of recipients.
The condition did not occur.