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To be somewhat proud of being vaccinated?

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NoOneToTextWhenThePlaneLands · 17/10/2025 12:25

With all the anti vax bollocks going about at the moment I’m somewhat proud of myself for actually going and getting vaccinated. I just think it’s mad that people won’t!

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JohnTheRevelator · 17/10/2025 15:11

Justputsomeyoghurtonit · 17/10/2025 12:28

Sorry, people are horrified at you getting a flu jab? Why?

You'd be surprised at the number of people who think that flu vaccinations are at best a waste of time,at worst, think it's preferable to actually get full blown flu! My ex MIL once said to me,after I'd told her I had a sore arm after my flu vaccination,that she'd rather get flu! All I can say is that anyone who says this obviously hasn't had the flu. So many people think it's just a bad cold.

Loveduppenguin · 17/10/2025 15:06

MrsSkylerWhite · 17/10/2025 13:53

I don’t understand why you’re conflating the Covid jab with ‘flu jabs? If you work in Pharma, you’ll know that ‘flu jabs variants have excellent safety records.

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I have been made very anxious about vaccines now unfortunately. Yes I know the differences between them. I just don’t always trust..

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NoOneToTextWhenThePlaneLands · 17/10/2025 15:00

MrsSkylerWhite · 17/10/2025 14:23

Not sure that’s true. The many millions who aren’t just get on with it and don’t think it worth commenting on.
Hopefully, after the recent tragic deaths from measles, uptake will pick up.

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I doubt it. Sadly being uneducated is something that is celebrated these days

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NoOneToTextWhenThePlaneLands · 17/10/2025 14:59

Lurker85 · 17/10/2025 14:46

Source? 😏

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The manufacturers? The government? The vaccination campaign they ran?

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Lurker85 · 17/10/2025 14:46

NoOneToTextWhenThePlaneLands · 17/10/2025 13:52

The Covid jab didn’t stop you getting Covid. It stopped you getting as poorly.

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Source? 😏

PocketSand · 17/10/2025 14:44

@Checkcheckout flu vaccination also triggered RA in my DM. NHS are aware that flu vaccination can lead to development of autoimmune conditions but research on risk factors is poor. Women aged 40-60 seem to be at higher risk of developing an autoimmune condition but at low risk of severe complication from flu, even if they catch it. So paying for a flu vaccination when not at risk from flu, given it does not benefit others, and may be of no or limited benefit to you as an individual, is more risky than not having the vaccination. There is a logical reason why the NHS only provides the flu vaccine to certain groups. Risk can outweigh benefit.

Be very wary of steroid treatment as long term use leads to osteoporosis. DM was not put methotrexate (also horrible) and then biologics until she had suffered several fractures by which time she was also on treatment for osteoporosis and treatment for side effects of the medication she had to take.

She went from fit and healthy to suffering a debilitating life long condition. Flu would have been a better alternative for her.

RedPony1 · 17/10/2025 14:28

I'm not anti vax, i just have zero interest in seasonal vaccinations

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 17/10/2025 14:25

I don't think it's reasonable to be proud of having basic common sense.

Buy yanbu to be horrified by the stupidity of your colleagues.

MrsSkylerWhite · 17/10/2025 14:23

NoOneToTextWhenThePlaneLands · 17/10/2025 14:20

You only have to look at threads like this and realise how many people are against it though

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Not sure that’s true. The many millions who aren’t just get on with it and don’t think it worth commenting on.
Hopefully, after the recent tragic deaths from measles, uptake will pick up.

Clearinguptheclutter · 17/10/2025 14:23

I’m pro vax but not particularly proud of it. It’s such an emotive and polarizing subject that it’s not something I really want to discuss with friends and colleagues, many of whom I know are anti-vax. A very sorry state of affairs

MrsSkylerWhite · 17/10/2025 14:21

Devilsmommy · 17/10/2025 14:02

I'm really not anti vax. I just don't think I need a COVID jab or a flu jab🤷

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Sheep is a very odd description to use, if that’s true.

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NoOneToTextWhenThePlaneLands · 17/10/2025 14:20

Fabulously · 17/10/2025 14:08

I’m fully vaccinated but I’m not proud of it per se. That’s like being proud of taking paracetamol or something ie a very basic task that doesn’t really impact my day to day.

You only have to look at threads like this and realise how many people are against it though

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AgDulAmach · 17/10/2025 14:18

NoOneToTextWhenThePlaneLands · 17/10/2025 14:13

That was the entire point of the vaccine. As is the same with the flu jab.

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No, it wasn't. I don't know where this idea came from.

Many millions of people have no symptoms at all when they have covid, or have such mild symptoms they don't notice them. It's not possible for them to be 'less poorly' as a result of the vaccine as they are already barely sick at all. That's not the point of the vaccine. The point of the vaccine is slow the spread within a population, regardless of how sick individuals are.

You do understand that thousands of people had the vaccine and still caught covid and died?

Notagain75 · 17/10/2025 14:18

BetterOffNow · 17/10/2025 12:27

Everyone has a choice.
Be proud all you like, but don't think it makes you better than someone who isn't vaccinated, just means you've made a different choice from them.

It does though because it means she is more concerned about eliminating preventable diseases than an anti vaxer.
If anti vaxers had their way hundreds of people would still be dying from poiio, smallpox, diphtheria, TB. etc Sadly because of people refusing to vaccinated their children measles and whooping cough are making a comeback.

HelpMeGetThrough · 17/10/2025 14:18

I’m having my flu job tomorrow, not so I can feel PROUD and puff out my chest. I have to or my medication gets withdrawn.

supersonicginandtonic · 17/10/2025 14:16

My friends husband had the covid jab. Definitely didn't stop him getting seriously ill.

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NoOneToTextWhenThePlaneLands · 17/10/2025 14:13

AgDulAmach · 17/10/2025 14:10

It doesn't make you immune, it also doesn't necessarily make you 'less poorly,' as you stated.

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That was the entire point of the vaccine. As is the same with the flu jab.

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scorpiogirly · 17/10/2025 14:11

The flu jab doesn't stop you getting the flu and you can still pass it on.

AgDulAmach · 17/10/2025 14:10

NoOneToTextWhenThePlaneLands · 17/10/2025 14:08

No, the vaccine did not make you immune.

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It doesn't make you immune, it also doesn't necessarily make you 'less poorly,' as you stated.

supersonicginandtonic · 17/10/2025 14:09

I've had mine as I work with vulnerable people. However it may only be £15 to you but to some people that's a lot of money and the choice between heating their homes or eating.

Fabulously · 17/10/2025 14:08

I’m fully vaccinated but I’m not proud of it per se. That’s like being proud of taking paracetamol or something ie a very basic task that doesn’t really impact my day to day.

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NoOneToTextWhenThePlaneLands · 17/10/2025 14:08

AgDulAmach · 17/10/2025 14:07

Do you really believe that every person who had the jab and got covid were 'less poorly'? This is not actually true and it is not the purpose of the vaccination. Many millions of people had covid with no issues at all pre-vaccination - the vaccine would have made no difference to how poorly they were. Others may have been less poorly after vaccination but that wasn't the focus.The covid vaccine is a population measure, the point isn't how it affects individuals (most people technically don't need it at all on an individual level), it's about reducing overall infection.

That's why the vaccination was still recommended even after it killed individuals.

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No, the vaccine did not make you immune.

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NoOneToTextWhenThePlaneLands · 17/10/2025 14:08

scorpiogirly · 17/10/2025 14:06

How does it keep everyone safe?

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Herd immunity.

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AgDulAmach · 17/10/2025 14:07

NoOneToTextWhenThePlaneLands · 17/10/2025 13:58

But imagine how poorly they would have been without the jab? I was the primary candidate for being very unwell with Covid. I was obese, unfit and unhealthy in general. I had the jab and thankfully it was very very minor for me. My dad with serious lung issues was fine too, because of the jab.

my mum nearly died from the flu last year, and she’d had the jab. The entire point is they make you less poorly.

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Do you really believe that every person who had the jab and got covid were 'less poorly'? This is not actually true and it is not the purpose of the vaccination. Many millions of people had covid with no issues at all pre-vaccination - the vaccine would have made no difference to how poorly they were. Others may have been less poorly after vaccination but that wasn't the focus.The covid vaccine is a population measure, the point isn't how it affects individuals (most people technically don't need it at all on an individual level), it's about reducing overall infection.

That's why the vaccination was still recommended even after it killed individuals.

scorpiogirly · 17/10/2025 14:06

NoOneToTextWhenThePlaneLands · 17/10/2025 12:38

It’s £15 for a private one. It keeps everyone safe and to be honest unless there’s a bona fide medical condition that means you can’t get it, i do judge people who don’t get vaccines.

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How does it keep everyone safe?