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Are you giving your child the covid jab?

135 replies

Bitconfusedhmm · 28/04/2022 11:49

Just had letter through to book it for my five year old.

he had covid two months ago and had symptoms for one day.

yabu - yes

yanbu - no

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LunaLovegoodsNecklace · 29/04/2022 09:21

I agree with you completely @GimmeUrCoffee- no child should be having the vaccine to protect anyone else. I have personally chosen to vaccinate my children as I judged it best for their own health but like I said it wasn't an easy decision and very finely balanced. One of my questions was whether it was being offered for their benefit or for older adults- no way would I have done it for anyone else's sakes.

Tbh I didn't get the vaccine myself to protect anyone else- again I judged it was best for my own health. I don't really care if anyone thinks I'm selfish for that. It has a positive effective overall but that's not why I had it.

Ihatethenewlook · 29/04/2022 09:22

DiscoBadgers · 29/04/2022 09:04

For god’s sake. All of you saying “they weren’t unwell when they had it” - good for you. What about anyone they came into contact and could have spread it to? Can you guarantee those people weren’t unwell too?

Yes, DS will be getting his jab. He has profound special needs though so we’re going to have to wait for the school vaccination roll out as going to the gp for it would distress him too much.

I couldn’t give a shit really. The side affects I’ve seen from this vaccine have been unreal. Just to name a couple of the worst, a good friend of mine who’s a paediatric nurse in alder hey was completely paralysed for 3 weeks after the vaccine triggered a condition called Guillain barre syndrome. It was months before she was back at work. I was forced to have the vaccine when I was on a course for the nhs. A load of us on the course went together, one of them being a completely healthy 34yo man who had a heart attack within a few hours. I wasn’t too bad until the next day. I had to take my dogs to the vets for their boosters and ended up collapsing. The vet had to help get me home, I couldn’t get up for 3 days. And coincidentally the vet used to be a (human) vaccination researcher in Iceland and Italy. He spent the whole time ranting about how dangerous the vaccine was and we have no idea how it’s going to affect us in the future, he said it has the potential to change our dna. So crack on with whatever you decide to do, but don’t be making out people are being selfish for putting their own kids health first. If the people who they come into contact to don’t want to catch it, then they can get the vaccine themselves can’t they?

tomatoandherbs · 29/04/2022 09:24

@Gotofriggingsleep

im not getting my children done
but as for my experience… no I didn’t get a hint of a sore arm

Philisophigal · 29/04/2022 09:24

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tomatoandherbs · 29/04/2022 09:26

He spent the whole time ranting about how dangerous the vaccine was and we have no idea how it’s going to affect us in the future, he said it has the potential to change our dna

not getting my children done
but still…

what a complete twat

tomatoandherbs · 29/04/2022 09:28

I got the vaccine to do the good things for society blah blah blah as otherwise I would not have e done because very fit and healthy and no preexisting
but for my children?
Society can go jump

ChloeHel · 29/04/2022 10:17

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Did they have it before France said that you no longer have to be vaccinated to enter?

PleaseYourselfandEatTheCrusts · 29/04/2022 18:13

How could the vaccine change our dna?

WeDontShutUpAboutBruno · 29/04/2022 18:27

I couldn’t give a shit really. The side affects I’ve seen from this vaccine have been unreal. Just to name a couple of the worst, a good friend of mine who’s a paediatric nurse in alder hey was completely paralysed for 3 weeks after the vaccine triggered a condition called Guillain barre syndrome. It was months before she was back at work. I was forced to have the vaccine when I was on a course for the nhs. A load of us on the course went together, one of them being a completely healthy 34yo man who had a heart attack within a few hours. I wasn’t too bad until the next day. I had to take my dogs to the vets for their boosters and ended up collapsing. The vet had to help get me home, I couldn’t get up for 3 days. And coincidentally the vet used to be a (human) vaccination researcher in Iceland and Italy. He spent the whole time ranting about how dangerous the vaccine was and we have no idea how it’s going to affect us in the future, he said it has the potential to change our dna. So crack on with whatever you decide to do, but don’t be making out people are being selfish for putting their own kids health first. If the people who they come into contact to don’t want to catch it, then they can get the vaccine themselves can’t they?

Guillain barre syndrome could also be triggered by a cold.

The rest sounds rather unfortunately dramatic, I know absolutely loads of people who had the vaccine and, besides a sore arm for a day, none have suffered at all, so it's pretty amazing you are surrounded by people with loads of symptoms collapsing all over the place

I would find a new vet if I were you too, he sounds ridiculous.

krazykatzlady · 29/04/2022 18:43

My 5 & 6 year old have had two vaccines, plus the flu jab with no bother at all. Not even a sore arm.
Not had covid and vulnerable so this was safer for us.
I think for vulnerable kids and households this has been the relief we have been waiting for.

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