I won't be brave enough to answer the question ''have you had your vaccination?''

[Gucci1961]

My fb feed is so polarised. I will be keeping it private what I have done I think. If anybody asks me if I have had it, I won't know what to say. Opinions seem so divided. I can't believe Im friends with people who think it's poison, and also, people who think you're so selfish you should go to prison if you pass on it!

Personally I'm on the fence but I'll have it. Reluctantly but I will have it. I cancelled the first appointment because it was at the crack of dawn on a weekend day. I have friends on my fb feed who are posted all sorts of articles insinuating that you're a lunatic to have untested shit put in to you and also that you'll have deaths on your hands if you don't race down to your local vaccination centre.

So, if I'm asked, I'll say, 'weather is improving, 12 degrees, feels like 11!''

I've just had my 2nd vaccination and am massively regretting it. 3rd day now of feeling horribly unwell, got a chesty cough, pounding headache and feel like I've run a marathon. I won't be having any further jabs.

I react badly to the flu vaccine so don't have it for this reason. But I listened to too many other voices saying "you should have it". Next time I will trust my gut instinct.

Go with what YOU feel is right OP, no one else's opinion is remotely relevant.

I've just had my 2nd vaccination and am massively regretting it.

I'm sorry you feel so rough. You would regret it more if you actually contracted covid. I hope you feel better soon.

I don’t personally want to be around unvaccinated people. That’s my decision and my choice, which you remove if you lie about that status.

But you have no right to people’s medical information. They do not have to tell you whether they are vaccinated or not.

I don’t like the trend of posting on Facebook that you’ve been vaccinated. I think it’s contributing to a nasty “them and us” environment and making people who can’t have it or haven’t been invited to have it yet feel more anxious. I’ve had my first one, but I wouldn’t go around shouting about it because either other people aren’t interested, or their reasons for being interested are not very nice. I don’t really want to spend time with people who filter their friends and family as acceptably safe or not.

Leaving Facebook was the best thing I ever did.

@Parker231 it can still be transmitted even after having the vaccine.

Yes but a lesser chance. My friend is checking with the hospital before turning up for her next treatment. She can’t take any risks.

Take it or don’t take it op, what is the deal with sharing it on Facebook? It’s not something I’d share and I’m a nurse ex is police so he’s had both his, parents had both theirs sis and brother in law had theirs as have my friends, even my son has had it. None of them have put it on social media. All my work colleagues have had both theirs too.

I am waiting to get mine, I got the invite but there were literally no dates in the next 3 months to swap to which is a pain, hopefully I can sort something so I can have it soon, occ health have a supply I’ve been told.

I had a really bad reaction to the first one. I still had my second one yesterday.

[quote qualitygirl]@Saff2015 I know Plenty of ppl in the medical fields (doctors, nurses and physios) who have opted not to get the vaccine yet. I work in pharmaceuticals and again there's plenty of us who are waiting it out a bit longer. 🤷‍♀️[/quote]
a friend of mine is a virologist and has actually worked for over 15 years developing vaccines.
she's waiting too

@Effinell

I had a really bad reaction to the first one. I still had my second one yesterday.

Did you have covid ? i was listening to something that said that people who had covid reacted badly to the first vaccine not the second and probably didn't need the second.

A friend of mine helped develop the AZ vaccine - she has obviously had it, as has all her family who are eligible.

Where I live (not uk) you need to have had either the vaccine or a rapid test within the last 72 hours to access shops, cinema and restaurants etc so I was delighted to get my first jab, really looking forward to getting my second and being fully protected.

Many people are not anti-vaccines. They just don’t want the AZ or Pfizer vaccines for Covid19. For me, the side effects of the vaccines freak me out way more than Covid. It’s probably different if you’re older and are clinically vulnerable.

My vaccine status isn't anyone's business and certainly don't post about it on social media. Likewise, anyone else's vaccine status isn't my business and I honestly couldn't remember who has posted on Facebook who has or hasnt been vaccinated.

@KaleSlayer

I don’t personally want to be around unvaccinated people. That’s my decision and my choice, which you remove if you lie about that status.

But you have no right to people’s medical information. They do not have to tell you whether they are vaccinated or not.

Totally agree.

I have not proclaimed my vaccine status on fb, nor my recent smear test. I was more pleased to get the overdue smear test done tbh.

If you're temporarily finding people overbearing, the 30 day snooze button is very useful. I don't have an issue with people having different points of view, just regularly repeated posts with a hectoring or belitlling tone, and that applies to anything Covid, political, or lifestyle.

I dislike hesitant people being lumped in with the traditional Ant-Vaxx. Given time to quietly see the outcomes of vaccination will work for the majority of hestitant people, and it's a small proportion of the population conpared to those accepting the vaccine when offered. Bullying and driving them into the Anti-Vaxx group is counterproductive and undermines confidence in vaccines in general and will be more damaging long-term.

FB itself is being a hectoring PITA at present. No I don't want a badge on my profile, no I don't want a link to your Covid/ Vaccine centre on just about every post as the algorithms pick up on just about any reference and applies it to Covid.