@GaraMedouar & @AnnaMagnani
The guidance about the Pfizer vaccination changed on 30/12/20: it’s only if you’re allergic to the ingredients that you’re not to have it. I had it on 08/01/21 (had my EpiPens literally to hand rather than just in my bag, as usual). Really really worrying that outdated advice was not only being broadcast, it was said by someone widely seen as a trusted figure. And clearly it’s not going to help with the getting across the message that you can safely have the vaccine even if your body has form for deciding a new thing definitely means anaphylaxis is the only reasonable response. 
@73kittycat73
I felt grotty for a few days after my vaccine, but that was from a pretty rubbish baseline; & it wrecked my arm, but that was because I’ve a bleeding disorder that means I shouldn’t have IM injections & the covid ones can’t be given any other way. Vastly VASTLY preferable to covid though. Lots of the HCPs I see regularly have had one or two doses & had nothing worse than a sore arm - one of the IV Team actually took part in the Oxford trial & only found out she’d had the real thing not the placebo when she got in touch to ask them as the vaccination programme was being rolled out at the Trust. My stepmother has had her first jab now too (she had the Oxford one) & was totally fine. If your arm is a bit sore afterwards, ice is the best thing for it. But I’m sure you’ll be grand. They’re well into the swing of things now, with marshalling people & things - all v efficient.
@Wyntersdiary
What your uncle has told you is inaccurate. There have been a few cases - globally - of people catching covid after being vaccinated, which is to be expected as none of the vaccines offer total coverage. However, crucially, even in extremely vulnerable patients, being vaccinated reduced the illness to one that did not require hospital treatment; & none of this patient population have died [from COVID, anyway], either. That’s a very very different thing from “actually no evidence that it protacts anyone against anything it just reduces symptoms potentially like the cough or temp”. I’m very curious as to what information it is he’s requested from whom (& when this was) that was not shared with him - & what reason, if any, was given for the refusal. Ever since the beginning of the process there has been a wealth of information freely available online, so I’m fascinated by what [he alleges] is being withheld. Is your uncle in the UK? As far as I’m aware the only severe (& they were anaphlactoid rather than anaphylactic) reactions to covid vaccines there have been here were those of the 2 HCPs in December which led to a temporary suspension of use of the Pfizer vaccine on the patient population who have a history of anaphylaxis. You are of course free to believe in the press having been silenced & the MHRA covering it all up, but...
@traveller11
What influence is it your boyfriend thinks the government has had in the vaccine? All of them, or one particularly? I think Rishi Sunak sliming his way across London to Vicky Foxcroft’s constituency to bother people who were being vaccinated was a loathsome bit of political nonsense around vaccines; & there are plenty of issues with how the government has [mis]handled the science of things - but I’m confused as to how you could set yourself up as following the science rather than swayed by politics, only to say you’ll not have the vaccine.