I helped a buddy's dad out one time in high school with vaccinating his cows. This was not how they did it. They had rather large needles.

Calling bullshit on this.

A lot of people reported losing senses of smell and/or taste, which are both related to the olfactory nerve, after being Covid tested. It’s not far-fetched at all that these symptoms could be caused by a low-level medical employee digging a swab up in your cribriform plate for the 99th time that day.