To consider paying for a private Covid immunisation?

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I am in my 60s but not clinically vulnerable but travel on public transport and everyone is coughing and sneezing. I have had it twice and was unwell both times.

Anyone else considering it? It is £100

@SirQuintusAureliusMaximus that is so awful

Had my Pfizer jab today. Pharmacist said there was a big demand.

When COVID came around first time I was one of the first people who got it and despite being healthy and young it almost had me in hospital. I flew back from another country just before the disease was announced and the first lockdown and I was so unwell I thought I might die.

I paid for a vaccine recently after they stopped being free because I never want to feel like that again, and this last vaccine seems to have given me better immunity than the free ones before, so either it's improved or it's built on my own immunity or previous vaccines.

My partner has been ill with COVID and has the classic lingering cough that won't shift. Somebody else in the family has it too. I have been symptom free entirely.

I'd honestly just pay it. I'd pay 100 pounds to not lose a couple of weeks of my life, let alone risk long COVID.

My DH and DD also had it very early, right before the first lockdown. I think a lot of people have forgotten how frightening that first wave was and how severe even mild cases were.

I am currently on day 6 of feeling really rotten with it - I will be considering boosters in future.

Next door neighbour Immuno suppressed has every booster as does his wife. They're out everyday at least once and have holidays away within the UK. Covid is the only thing he hasn't suffered with ever. Nor has his wife. And those transplant drugs are pretty rough on him.

They won't. I find this whole thread very depressing. Naively I honestly thought most people had wised up now. Clearly not

Wised up to what, exactly?

@KnittedCardi sadly its really really doing the rounds again, this variant has possible D&V also - i think covid unlike other respiratory illnesses seems impervious to the warmer months! Just had it for the third time and i will try get a private vaccination on the winter- I was so ill and loads of my hair fell out.

I know more people with it now than i ever have in this whole time

Its a nasty variant too!

It doesnt stop you catching it and you are still contagious and will still pass it on

I have so many hospital appointments coming up and surgery, this makes me nervous

It helps stop you catching it, and if fewer people are able to catch it, then obviously there is a lot less passing it on

Are you a doctor/epidemiologist?
You cannot arrogantly assert such crap
It is stull out there, there are vulnerable people stull

I've had it last week and it's the most poorly I can remember being. No idea how long it's going to take to feel normal again. I still get sudden waves of nausea or high temperature after 8 days

I have covid and loads of people I work with have it. I feel bloody awful.
Pay the money and get the jab.

I may pay for it as well, just recovering from latest bout a few weeks ago. Wiped me out for a good few days - thankfully still at existing job with generous sick leave and people who know I don't take the mickey - but the attitudes here worry me as I will be moving job soon,

Oh why are you testing, oh you're not really ill with covid, it must be hay fever.

I didn't believe in lockdown and I never washed my shopping or anything else like that. All I know is I now seem to be getting pretty poorly every few months with it, and the reason I test is I naturally worry about giving any communicable disease to my geriatric DPs who rely on me providing a certain amount of care.

I just wanted to minimise risk. I have had Covid twice. First time in March 2020 when vaccination was a dream. I was very unwell and terrified. Second time was 2 years ago but completely different experience unpleasant but not terrified as milder illness and I had had several vaccinations as was frontline NHS.

No, but statistically more people have hay-fever than COVID. Lots of people have COVID, obviously by the experience of those on here, and for some it's pretty unpleasant. So, yes get the vaccine if you want, or can.

No it doesnt !

The point of the jab is so the person isnt so ill with it

But it also prevents some spread, so fewer people have it

Why wouldn't you??? Why the hell would you? A vaccine that was released way sooner than the usual protocols for any new vaccine release, with the manufacturers given immunity from prosecution about any side effects. If that doesn't ring any alarm bells, it doesn't give you immunity or prevent you spreading the disease. If you still think it's ok, look at the stats for all the people who have had extremely bad reactions to the vaccine. That poison is coming nowhere near me or mine

whatever

Wow. You still believe that crap? Even after they had to admit it was false.

When did they admit is was false?