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CatLover71 · 18/02/2022 12:28

I am not vaccinated but my husband is. He has been offered a promotion in another country which would mean moving out of the country. He is vaccinated. AIBU to feel apprehensive about getting the vaccination? I want to support his dreams but I am worried about getting the vaccination due to the horror stories I have heard. AIBU?

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PurpleDaisies · 18/02/2022 12:29

Think how many millions have a very boring vaccination story.

PurpleDaisies · 18/02/2022 12:30

The boring story being that they had a sore arm and felt rough for a day.

Readeatcake · 18/02/2022 12:30

Yabu - go speak to your doctor or health care professional about your worries on the vaccine im sure they will talk you through the information

Mydogisagentleman · 18/02/2022 12:31

I honestly don’t understand people who won’t be vaccinated against it.
DDs 21 year old boyfriend refuses. I do understand freedom of choice but he is a very fit and healthy lad with no underlying health problems.
What exactly is it you are concerned about?

Darbs76 · 18/02/2022 12:31

There’s a lot more horror stories surely of getting covid.

newbiename · 18/02/2022 12:31

What horror stories ?Confused

WindyState · 18/02/2022 12:32

Billions of doses of the vaccine have now been administered. What more evidence do you need it's safe?

Just get it.

ManicPixie · 18/02/2022 12:32

Of course YABU. Just get it.

NextThreadPlease · 18/02/2022 12:33

Forgetting the vaccination, do you want to move another country?

Hankunamatata · 18/02/2022 12:34

Well your choices are to get it, stay in uk while husband goes to new job or husband turns down job. On my you can decide what to do

misspercy · 18/02/2022 12:35

@NextThreadPlease

Forgetting the vaccination, do you want to move another country?
This.

Whilst I think everyone who can get vaccinated should, that's a completely separate issue to whether you want to uproot your life or not.

AchillesPoirot · 18/02/2022 12:36

What horror stories?

MillyMollyMandyMaybe · 18/02/2022 12:36

Billions of people around the world have had the vaccines without anything more than a sore arm. The numbers of people who have suffered with complications from covid, up to and including death, is orders of magnitude higher than those who have had a serious side effect from a vaccine, not to mention the numbers of people disabled by long covid.

If you are a rational person who trusts that scientists and public health officials know more than the man in the street does about vaccine safety, there is no reason to hesitate.

DickMabutt73962 · 18/02/2022 12:37

@newbiename

What horror stories ?Confused
Ones on fb about so ones second cousin thrice removed
Thelnebriati · 18/02/2022 12:38

I haven't heard any vaccine horror stories, but I know several people who have had Covid and a couple of neighbours have died from it.
Stay away from the anti vaxx websites & social media posts, and remember that most of the people around you have been vaccinated without incident.

Kinneddar · 18/02/2022 12:38

For every one person who tells vaccine horror story there'll be millions of people who got it and are fine. It's like any medication, there are risks of side effects. If you read the list of side effects for any meds you wouldn't touch it.

What about the horror stories you hear about people with covid? Don't they worry you?

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CatLover71 · 18/02/2022 12:39

@NextThreadPlease

Forgetting the vaccination, do you want to move another country?
Of course I do, I’ve just read so many stories about people who have died that were fully vaccinated. I will admit that I have not done any extensive research. My husband got the vaccination for work and travel purposes but even he didn’t want to get it at first. I’m not worried about the sore arm or short term after effects. I am more concerned about possible long term effects. I don’t really want to move as my parents who are elderly are here and I would hate to leave and then something terrible happens to them in my absence Sad
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EmbarrassedAllOver · 18/02/2022 12:40

What horror stories? It would be ludicrous for you to not get it.

HaveANiceFuckingDay · 18/02/2022 12:41

@AchillesPoirot

What horror stories?
Balls falling off or swelling like the elephant mans / hung so big as a result it was like an elephant trunk or somesuch A pop star ( cant remember her name ) the cousins brothers brother in law stepdad or something 🤷‍♀️. Not heard many horror stories at all .
Stressedout1009 · 18/02/2022 12:42

You can't be serious. The millions who have been vaccinated and are fine, counts for nothing?

PurpleDaisies · 18/02/2022 12:42

I’ve just read so many stories about people who have died that were fully vaccinated.

Died of Covid?
There would be masses and masses more deaths of not for the vaccines.

londonrach · 18/02/2022 12:42

What horrid stories....it was fun .. everyone in it together..music was one at the vaccination centre, everyone laughing and joking. Sore arm for two days only con and it wasn't that bad...

Witheringtong · 18/02/2022 12:44

Those are not 'vaccine horror stories' Confused Those people died of the virus, not the vaccine. They may have had a compromised immune system so it didnt take. They may have come into contact with a different varient.

Its ok to not want to move to another country.

mummymeister · 18/02/2022 12:45

the horror stories you mention are just that - stories. they arent facts. they arent medical opinion. they are made up stories and should be prefaced with once upon a time. I have multiple allergies and reacted badly to the first astrazeneca drug. but so what? one of my children has long covid and i have dead relatives due to the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic.

BearOfEasttown · 18/02/2022 12:46

What horror stories about the vaccine? Confused