To ask why you haven't/won't have the covid vaccine?

[shuz1980]

Is it because your an anti vaxxer? Concerned about long term side effects?

Erm its a personal choice, you have no riut to know why someone doesn't want to inject something into their body.

Do you go round asking smokers why they still smoke? Or why people eat junk food when its not good for their bodies?

Oh yeah its none of your business thats why!

Can't speak for myself, but my sister is a nurse and is refusing it.
She says she believes in her bodies 'natural ability to fight viruses'.

Why do you want to know? Would you be happy with whatever answers you get, and move on? Or will you continue to ask more questions, maybe invalidating real anxieties that some might have.

Yes you are BU.

@Dreamstate

Erm its a personal choice, you have no riut to know why someone doesn't want to inject something into their body.

Do you go round asking smokers why they still smoke? Or why people eat junk food when its not good for their bodies?

Oh yeah its none of your business thats why!

Actually its much more other people's business than the examples you gave.

Recent studies show vaccinated people are 50% less likely to pass it on to others. Just like the measles/polio vaccine etc.

www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/mounting-evidence-suggests-covid-vaccines-do-reduce-transmission-how-does-work

@Dreamstate

Erm its a personal choice, you have no riut to know why someone doesn't want to inject something into their body.

Do you go round asking smokers why they still smoke? Or why people eat junk food when its not good for their bodies?

Oh yeah its none of your business thats why!

I understand you're point but I have asked those questions to people online on forums. Not sure if I would in person but I probably wouldn't ask someone why they haven't got the vaccine in person either.

I don't think this is a unreasonable question to ask on an online forum.

@Dreamstate

Erm its a personal choice, you have no riut to know why someone doesn't want to inject something into their body.

Do you go round asking smokers why they still smoke? Or why people eat junk food when its not good for their bodies?

Oh yeah its none of your business thats why!

If someone doesn't get the vaccine and passes it to someone l love who is vulnerable, that is my business. This is about public health.

If someone doesn't want it, l respect their decision but be honest so other people can make an informed decision about whether they want to be around them.

OP respectfully asked a reasonable question on an online forum. Why do people feel the need to get so het up if they truly believe they have good reasons not to get the vaccine?! No one forced you to click on this thread and give a reply... if you don't want to answer then scroll past, Jesus wept

@minatrina

OP respectfully asked a reasonable question on an online forum. Why do people feel the need to get so het up if they truly believe they have good reasons not to get the vaccine?! No one forced you to click on this thread and give a reply... if you don't want to answer then scroll past, Jesus wept

I completely agree, as much as I'm also fed up with these posts - I didn't have to click on it!!

I have had the vaccine btw I just clicked on it to be nosy 😂

@minatrina

OP respectfully asked a reasonable question on an online forum. Why do people feel the need to get so het up if they truly believe they have good reasons not to get the vaccine?! No one forced you to click on this thread and give a reply... if you don't want to answer then scroll past, Jesus wept

Because if people do answer, with a reason that is justified for them, they invariably have their reason picked apart, either by OP or other posters. Then the name calling starts (I have my bingo card ready). These threads never end well.

@XenoBitch so keep scrolling then? 🤣

[quote minatrina]@XenoBitch so keep scrolling then? 🤣[/quote]
Well, both of us opened the thread and commented .

I asked why OP wanted to know.

Mainly health anxiety that stems around having reactions to anything and everything. So in my mind I’ll die from anaphylaxis if I have it.

However, I’m also 7 weeks pregnant; have read a lot about how poorly pregnant women are with COVID and the rate is rising on hospitalisation a for pregnant woman with COVID. So I’m starting to outweigh my anxiety more with the fear of harming my baby, however it was firstly advised not to get the vaccine if early pregnant or TTC. But now they’re recommending it anyway, I guess because the benefits outweigh the risks. But I’m still absolutely and utterly terrified of it.

Lots of reasons.
I don;'t tend to get ill (have seen a GP for 7 minutes in 15 years and don't take tablets, have about 1 head ache pill every 10 years, never even been on the contraceptive pill (although I am not anti vax as such).

I work from home and don't really socialise so not much chance I will get it or pass it on.

Both my siblings were quite ill with the AZ vaccine so not prepared to take the risk I would be.

I don't do queues really ever.... so the idea of going to some public place to be vaccinated just sounds pretty awful and waste of my time.

However I have not fully decided. I might have it this winter or next year.

It does not last in its effect for life so is very different from the decision over some other vaccines.

I don't really mind if people think my reasons are stupid. They are as they are. One reason we have a high take up in the UK is because the vaccine is voluntary.

Surely this thread has been done to death already?

What do you think you’ll get here that hasn’t been said a million times?

I don't do queues really ever.... so the idea of going to some public place to be vaccinated just sounds pretty awful and waste of my time.

Ok, this is a new reason not to be vaccinated.

Queues 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Well you weren't concerned when people have colds and flu either.

Literally it is noones business what another person decides to so with their body. Their body, their choice.

FWIW both of my vaccines were in and out in twenty minutes which included fifteen minutes of compulsory observation after the jab.

We know of a GP who decided not to get the jab. His explanation is 'personal choice'... he's not actually vaccinating anyone at his practice so his patients have to go elsewhere. He maintains that he's 'not going to inject a patient with something that he wouldn't inject in himself'! Can't believe he still has his job tbh with that attitude but he would be described as very eccentric even Pre-Covid...

From the people I've spoken to who've chosen not to have it their main reason seems to be they feel the vaccine was rushed therefore it's impossible to know what if any fallout there may be in the future.

That said I don't think it's an unreasonable question to ask on an online forum. And I think people who've decided not to because 'the body can protect itself from the oxygen and energy around me' really should be rescued from the anti-vax rabbit hole.

OK, seeing as the only reply that has been picked apart had other people zero on one of several reasons that person gave (Xenia did not say queues were the only reason)... I'll bite.

I haven't had the vaccine because I have severe needle and medical phobia. I am not after advice on it. Just answering the question.

Well, most people have a 99% chance of surviving covid. This jab is experimental. So why the fuck would anyone in their right mind take it, or guilt and shame anyone else who chooses not to take it.