I think there's something to that as well. Maybe it's both.

I can't say I was ever pressured to get the shots, so perhaps I have missed an opportunity for growth ;)

But I can say that the whole experience has been... illuminating. It revealed ugliness in places I never expected to see it, weakness in people and organizations I thought had more backbone, and like sticking a glowing genetic marker into an organism to trace the extent of a change... it highlighted just how far and fast is the reach of propaganda in the internet age.

We've all learned a lot, and learning does change us. For those who resisted, the exercise of will in the service of conscience also changes us. Radically.