To be fed up of vaccination envy

[TheLoneRager]

I'm so fed up of people complaining about who is getting a vaccination before them. Often they cite someone who has been deemed vulnerable but in the eyes of the complainer whatever the medical condition it is isn't very serious in their opinion (obviously also in total ignorance of any other health issues the person may have).

Seriously this isn't the last lifeboat off the Titanic, the last helicopter out of Saigon. More boats and helicopters are on their way all the time. Just wait your turn and be grateful we have an NHS which has stepped up to the challenge and is leading the world in managing a massive logistical challenge.

It was always going to be necessary to use broad bandings of priority.

We are so lucky to have an expectation of getting vaccinated in the near future whatever your age or other circumstances.

I've just had it with hearing whiners complaining "it's not fair".

UrAWizHarry

Newfor2021
What’s even more ridiculous is that people even want this so called Vaccine!!!

hmm
Oh do shut the fuck up.”

Hear, hear 👏

The vaccination programme is the only thing where the government has followed the medical recommendation to the letter, and the only thing they have got right.

@SisterAgatha

its not like you can end lockdown once you have it.

You can go in a shop or on a bus or to the park which a lot of shielding people have been afraid to do for nearly a year though. For them, the vaccine is life changing even in a lockdown. Even just for their MH.

Most people aren’t shielding though are they?

It’s the Twitter posts about sobbing and shaking after having the jab that confuse me. My parents have had their first jabs. No dramas, no tears. I’m not envious of them. All over social media, people seem unable to receive a vaccine without dramatics.

mobile.twitter.com/francesbarber13/status/1365703956291342339

Some of the comments under there are funny, Mumsnet gets a mention!

This made me laugh:

“ Mike, after mine I dropped to my knees & hollered:

'Amazing Grace,
How sweet the jab
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now am fab'

The entire room gathered around, raised me to my feet & sang along. A choir of heavenly nurses rang out, seven trumpets sounded...”

And everybody clapped.

@Donotfeedthebears

I don’t understand why anybody would be jealous of a vaccine, it’s not like you can end lockdown once you have it.

Exactly. If you are young and otherwise healthy it makes negligible difference to your risk. If you are old and vulnerable, yes but the young were never at risk of being ill anyway

What’s even more ridiculous is that people even want this so called Vaccine!!!

What’s even more ridiculous is some people aren’t.

That's brilliant Donotfeedthebears
Love it.

What annoys me is people playing the system. My SIL has been offered because her mother has clearly said she is an unpaid carer of hers... this is totally untrue. I’m furious they are doing this as me and her brother are waiting patiently for ours as there are many others who need it more than us.

My FIL has already had his even though his age bracket isn’t being offered yet. He went with MIL who did need it earlier for health reasons.

My mother has serious health problems and has fully shielded since Feb last year. My dad getting his would allow for their life to get back to normal but again, they are waiting their turn as others are more important.

I’m not jealous in the slightest, I’m furious they are playing the system to suit them and not thinking of other people in more need. I am more than happy to continue living a sheltered life to ensure others with more of a chance of dying than me get what they need. I wished other people felt the same.

I’m 48, happily wait my turn. People who are vulnerable or medical problems or older go first. But I’m fed up with people putting on fb they have had their jag, knowing it will cause arguments. I read it nearly every other day.

I work at a GP surgery and our phone calls have almost doubled - people are constantly calling & emailing to say that someone they know who is younger than them and/or healthier than them has had the vaccine and they haven’t. It doesn’t help that hundreds of people have come out of the woodwork declaring themselves as carers so they get it sooner, nor that our neighbouring GP practice appear to have just stopped caring about the categories and are offering it to anyone. I get that people think it’s unfair, and worry that they will be forgotten about, but honestly we are doing so well that everyone who wants it will have had it soon.

The booking system has today been opened up to group 8 so that's anyone aged 56 and over. If you know of anyone who is older and has not had their first dose then maybe steer them to this site and they will be able to book in through that.
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/?fbclid=IwAR2JOgJJpW96vj_KKOwca-e39sK8UUXpPwSCEvvDyJueKCCAaqW8vqJXQ1U

Well done for all your hard work managing this @MadisonMontgomery
Keep a list of the troublemakers. When they demand a letter or vaccine passport so they can go on holiday charge them double the fee (whatever fee is arrived at).

Good advice @thetemptationofchocolate
I suppose it's possible/likely that some vulnerable people have been overlooked for whatever reason and are sitting patiently waiting for the call rather than being proactive about booking in.

@SisterAgatha still shielding.. advice is to carry on shielding even after two vaccines

@MadisonMontgomery

I work at a GP surgery and our phone calls have almost doubled - people are constantly calling & emailing to say that someone they know who is younger than them and/or healthier than them has had the vaccine and they haven’t. It doesn’t help that hundreds of people have come out of the woodwork declaring themselves as carers so they get it sooner, nor that our neighbouring GP practice appear to have just stopped caring about the categories and are offering it to anyone. I get that people think it’s unfair, and worry that they will be forgotten about, but honestly we are doing so well that everyone who wants it will have had it soon.

God its awful. Grab grab grab 🙄 "it's not faiiiiir". "Why should he get it before meeeeee". Honestly, how old are these people? 6?

Of course they will still be shielding but imagine running out of milk over the course of the year and not even being about to nip down the shop, or making your neighbour/friend stand at the door like it is disinfection shower time. A little of that anxiety is removed from having the jab so if vulnerable people who are being missed off at the moment are feeling envious, let them. Obviously their time will come but it must be unimaginably harder than for someone who never changed their behaviour and now has the jab.

@Newfor2021

What’s even more ridiculous is that people even want this so called Vaccine!!!

Fortunately those who refuse it are in a small minority

thank you for the link i tried that the other day and it wouldnt accept my postcode we moved house and my doctors have obviously not accepted my online change of address so i put in my last postcode which it has accepted and now booked for mine , am mid sixties and want mine for peace of mind more than anything else

@thetemptation of chocolate - indeed! It looks as if the vaccination programme is running so quickly that the marketing for it can't keep up. I got my letter telling me I could book a vaccine, several days after I'd actually had it - because I'd read on mumsnet that my age group could book directly online!

Im having mine in a couple weeks all booked in but won't be telling anyone in real life as I am in my 40's . To the outside I don't qualify but I do but don't wish to disclose to others as to why.
I get why some may be annoyed but you can't always assume someone doesn't meet the criteria
I used the link in the end rather than wait for my dr letter as seems quicker although it may mean travelling a little further , but that isn't an issue for me
My kids are back at school from mon which I am happy about for them but worried a little for myself so glad I have a vaccine booked and also Im one extra to help hopefully protect others

Can someone explain to me why the first comments on AIBU threads tend to be absolutely bonkers?

I'm envious of people who have had the jab, but I don't think it's unfair, and I'm supportive of people who have been vaccinated.

I will admit to regularly checking how the rollout is going in the hopes that it will suddenly be my turn. In my area, they're currently offering the jab to 60 upwards. It's going to be a long time until Group 11 is called up...

Part of me is getting increasingly anxious they'll run out of the jabs by the time it's my turn, but I also know that even though I have some risk factors (e.g. ethnicity), so do a lot of the other people in the same group as me. We just have to wait and hope. Ultimately, whilst I want the jab myself, I also want everyone else to have had the jab, so I remind myself that things are happening in line with that wish.

I’m more than happy to wait my turn, even though I’ll be on of the last, but I’m not happy to sit locked up in my house while at least 50% of the people who have had it are out socialising!

You're not wrong OP, but constantly drawing attention to it is just giving the issue more sunlight rather than less, and this perpetuates the negative cycle.

For sure the 'I'm not a selfish bastard' variety who shrieks 'foul!' when someone goes shopping for an inessential bottle of wine, has now been replaced by garden variety pointy-elbowism crying 'waaah! My invulnerable neighbour's been vaccinated before me!' And it's all very, very tedious.

So I hear you, but I'm not sure constantly drawing attention to it is going to do anything to get rid of the problem. I just wait with impatience for this whole shitshow to be put back into proportion, and for something resembling normal life to resume. (Constant lockdowns are not going to make this happen any sooner and I'm just hoping there's still a leisure and hospitality industry left by the time we come out, blinking in the daylight and wondering WTF hit us).

I don't doubt there will be quite a few disappointed people when that happy day arrives.

@Ilovewheelychairs if your DM is over 60 she can go online and book. My mum is early 60's, booked online last weekend after checking on a whim then for her letter on Tuesday.