AIBU to not have the 4th covid jab ?

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I've had all my covid vaccines up to date. I also had covid a few months ago.. I think I can get the next vaccine too if I want it. I was a bit surprised to be invited again..

Covid was just like a cold for me.

I'm 35, have MS ( not on any medication and I don't really have any symptoms apart from fatigue ). So no disability from it, no trouble walking or anything in my body- except fatigue.

I don't really want to have another vaccine. Is that unreasonable ?

I'm arrogant as all get out then. I've had none, caught covid from my friend in November, was fatigued with an odd smell of burnt plastic for a week. It was worse than the cold but easier than the flu. I'll take my chances. And medical advice was to take all sorts in the past that then changed. Medicine is not all powerful and all knowing.

I'm arrogant as all get out then. I've had none, caught covid from my friend in November, was fatigued with an odd smell of burnt plastic for a week. It was worse than the cold but easier than the flu. I'll take my chances. And medical advice was to take all sorts in the past that then changed. Medicine is not all powerful and all knowing.

Tbh it knows a lot more about medicine than you.

Did you look? Are they all lying? Did you actually look or do you just dismiss it and put smiling laughing faces like I'm stupid and you're some superior being?
You're right you can't make this shit up.

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It cannot "give you Shingles". Honestly the folk myths swirling aroung this thread are bloody depressing.

Say again after me "Post hoc does not equal propter hoc". Scientific education really is lacking in the general population.

sunglassesonthetable is it possible that you can see another persons opinion or experience?
The fact that you haven't seen or heard of any adverse reactions does not automatically exclude it from happening.
You're a typical angry Mumsnetter who belittles and critiques and criticises with no accountability of what you say.
It's posters like you that make this site so hard to bear sometimes.

Credulous people always get so upset when people point out they're credulous. Instead of taking a step back and thinking. I suppose it's easier.

"Getting the vaccine is still safer than getting Covid."

This is a sweeping and dangerous generalisation. For the elderly and vulnerable, yep. But when you're a healthy teenage boy and your risk of dying from Covid is around 0.0002%:

www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642%2821%2900066-3/fulltext

why in the name of flip would you take a 1 in 15,000 chance of developing myocarditis: www.heart.org/en/news/2022/09/06/myocarditis-from-covid-19-booster-rare-but-risk-highest-among-teen-boys-young-men

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It's really not all black and white.

Did you look? Are they all lying? Did you actually look or do you just dismiss it and put smiling laughing faces like I'm stupid and you're some superior being?
You're right you can't make this shit up.

No I haven't looked. And I doubt they're all lying.

But that doesn't make any difference.

There are always side effects to vaccines. To all medicines. Even saline. Paracetamol whatever. Known Fact.

But to base your actual medical choices on what you read on an unverified Instagram site yes 100% 😂😂😂😂😂😂

And to advise other people discussing the choices to consider it = actually shocking. ( you can do what the hell you like)

And you don't need to actually be a superior being to realise that. Just vaguely ordinarily informed.

So smallpox was never eradicated by inoculation? OK then.

notnownorma I did take a step back and think, that's why I didn't get vaccinated. It really shouldn't bother you though.

I didn't base my choices on Instagram. I made my choice back in 2020 before it was forced upon nearly every Australian.
It is now that the stories are coming out.

In our family we've had 8 jabs between the older 3 of us; two in our 30s and a 7 year old, mostly Pfizer. No side effects. I wouldn't hesitate to get another jab when offered.

We all had covid in January and DH and the kids were asymptomatic or mild cold symptoms but I felt very rough.

Yes, how dare I be "bothered" by misinformation.

Tough, I am. On this thread are classic scaremongering, ill-informed anti-facts which could easily cause someone's death. But, who cares eh? Be kind. Don't question other people's "truths".

Husband (54, fit and in good health) is having his today. I’m 51 and will have it next week. He works in a hospital and has seen some horrific things. I had a mild reaction with one jab but rather that than get it. I want to keep living my life.

notnownorma what have I said that's misinformation?
The op asked our opinion, I gave mine but you don't agree?
How is that misinformed?

The fact that you haven't seen or heard of any adverse reactions does not automatically exclude it from happening.
You're a typical angry Mumsnetter who belittles and critiques and criticises with no accountability of what you say.
It's posters like you that make this site so hard to bear sometimes.

Of course I've seen or heard of adverse reactions. God alive it's documented! By credible agencies.

What makes this site hard to bear is people spreading ACTUAL DANGEROUS MISINFORMATION because they have google.

And whilst we're on the subject of 'accountability' how is any of the un verifiable, anonymous Covid information flying in the face of world wide statistics "accountable "?

I can critique what I like. Just as you can post whatever Covid advice you like.

And just for the record I'm not angry. Well tbh just a bit now.

I haven't posted any misinformation 🤷‍♀️

I haven't posted any misinformation 🤷‍♀️
You know what you're doing.

Faux Naive 🤷‍♀️ . You've sign posted to un verified Instagram sites . You clearly have an axe to grind.

" the stories have come out"

So you can wind your neck in about other angry MNs criticising you and making this site "hard to bear".

God you read some BS on here.

Why have the antivaxxers suddenly come slithering onto Mumsnet again?

What makes this site hard to bear is people spreading ACTUAL DANGEROUS MISINFORMATION because they have google.

This. A screenshot which has been circulated on here (and no doubt elsewhere) has been proved to be misleading, but if taken at face value might prevent pregnant women choosing to have the vaccine (if that’s what they want). This is because people are “doing their own research”. They have no clue what actual research really consists of.

Had mine last Saturday along with the flu jab. Arm ached a bit but other than that, absolutely fine.

I've had covid twice.

First time with one one jab. Felt rough like a bad cold for 6/7 days. Got the second jab and ended up in A&E with chest pains which turned out to be inflammation in my ribs. Still get that now, over a year later.

Had covid in July and felt a lot better than I did after the jab! For me personally, it's not worth the risk.

What makes this site hard to bear is people spreading ACTUAL DANGEROUS MISINFORMATION because they have google

It's really brought them out of the woodwork hasn't it?
I love the way so many reapeat the phrase " I'm so done with this". Yet here they are. Needing to put their 10pennorth in, wanting to influence others to make the same choice they did.

Though fortunately I don't think there is much danger of rational people being influenced on covid vaccine at this stage. The anti vaxxers made their decisions back in 2021 and the rest of us have had the vaccines so the world could get back to normal.
What does worry me immensely is the creep of vaccine scepticism into childhood vaccines. People who benefited from all the childhood immunisations themselves suddenly suspicious of them and denying them to their own children .

Anyone who believes rubbish on Instagram is someone whose intelligence I'd question quite frankly.