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Not sure if I would have the vaccination or not

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Pinkyyy · 21/07/2020 12:57

Just that really.

I'm not sure that I would feel comfortable having a vaccination given that they whole world is in a race to create it and I would be scared that somewhere or another, corners had been cut and not all of the side effects were known.

Is there any information anyone has seen that's helped them make a decision regarding this? I haven't followed any of the vaccine talk.

Also I feel I should point out I haven't had any of my vaccines (not even as a child) so it would be a big step for me to have it and I'm very anxious.

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ineedaholidaynow · 22/07/2020 12:29

As an aside thalidomide is now used as a cancer treatment drug, my DF was treated with it for quite a few years. He did have to sign something to say he wouldn’t father any children whilst on it.

feelingverylazytoday · 22/07/2020 13:40

I will be having the covid-19 vaccine at the first possible opportunity.
There is doubt in the US that herd immunity will ever be achieved due to the growing numbers of 'anti vaxxers' , this situation cannot be allowed to take hold in the UK. I support whatever measures are needed to protect the population, if that means being required to carry proof of vaccination to gain access to public spaces then so be it (barring medical exemptions).

Komacho · 22/07/2020 23:29

@cinammonbuns

An anti-vaxxer and anti abortion. I’m starting to feel like I’m at a trump rally.

You were not asking for opinions. You only wanted to hear people who agreed with your nonsense.

The government won’t be forcing the vaccine on you and you aren’t special. Carry on.

OP has admitted in the past that they are a trump supporter...

I suspect this thread wasn't really started to get some honest advice.

CrunchyCarrot · 23/07/2020 07:13

I think you need to wait and see exactly which vaccines for Covid will be available (we are still quite a way off that in terms of anything being approved) and what the adjuvants and other additives in those vaccines are, then you can make an informed decision. I am not making a decision about having it until I know far more.

As for childhood vaccines, I'd think seriously about getting the MMR. I had measles at 5 yrs old (this was before there was a vaccine) and it wasn't much fun, but these childhood diseases can be far worse as an adult (mumps definitely is).

avocadoze · 23/07/2020 07:57

There’s a generation that’s been raised to view their feelings as the most important thing, above material reality and evidence. Their own opinions matter as much as anyone else’s, despite differing levels of expertise.

Fortunately, I’m old. And i understand enough to take my direction from peer-reviewed scientific study, rather than Facebook.

OpheliasCrayon · 23/07/2020 08:18

I probably wouldn't get one, and I say that with a very heavy heart as I have had all my vaccinations , as have my children and I have chosen to have extra ones for them like chicken pox
The reason I wouldn't is because I have had a large number of extremely serious drug reactions to a lot of things I've had to take - I do trust the vaccine and it's safety trials , but I would want it to have been around for a while to find out what the most serious side effects (hopefully there are none/ just mild ones like the flu one that I do get and I would go for it !). I have had to have the reactions that I've had added on by the yellow card scheme to the drug side effects list to three drugs I've taken as they've never happened to anyone before and another one was deemed so rare and unlikely that the drug company didn't add it on.
So, because of that I think for me personally a rushed vaccine that no one has had yet could potentially be more risk than the illness I'm fairly sure I've had anyway and was very mild.

I will get it in time, but not immediately.

OpheliasCrayon · 23/07/2020 08:21

[quote Pinkyyy]@Wishfulthinking1977 it really does affect everyone differently doesn't it, one of the main reasons I'm put off having them.

@ineedaholidaynow I'm pretty sure state schools can't refuse children an education because they're not vaccinated? If so, it must be uncommon.

I've never had a flu jab either. Do you have to have another one every year? I really think it's ridiculous to call someone selfish for not being vaccinated.[/quote]
State schools can't refuse people for not being vaccinated but in my opinion they should be able to.

feelingverylazytoday · 23/07/2020 08:30

State schools can't refuse people for not being vaccinated but in my opinion they should be able to
I'm not sure if children should be excluded. I think there should be an automatic referral to social services if parents refuse vaccines on non medical grounds.

OpheliasCrayon · 23/07/2020 08:33

@feelingverylazytoday

State schools can't refuse people for not being vaccinated but in my opinion they should be able to I'm not sure if children should be excluded. I think there should be an automatic referral to social services if parents refuse vaccines on non medical grounds.

Social services have a case load that they can't keep up with already without having to deal with parents who won't vaccinate children.

XiCi · 23/07/2020 08:37

Do people who choose not to vaccinate just never travel then. Or are they just really gung ho about getting Typhoid or Yellow Fever or HepA?

I personally won't be first in the queue for this Jab as I had the flu Jab once and it made me really ill
The flu jab does not contain any live viruses so this is unlikely. It's far more likely that you caught something else around the time of the jab.

OpheliasCrayon · 23/07/2020 08:49

@XiCi

Do people who choose not to vaccinate just never travel then. Or are they just really gung ho about getting Typhoid or Yellow Fever or HepA?

I think for ones like yellow fever you have to prove that you've had it before you can enter certain countries. So If you wanted to travel you can't necessarily avoid it ?

countrygirl99 · 23/07/2020 09:02

You usually have to prove yellow fever vaccination if you are coming from a yellow fever area, so you might not need to to go on travel there but you would to leave that country

110APiccadilly · 23/07/2020 09:22

I'm surprised the doctors go on at you about having your childhood vaccines. I had to chase and chase to get my childhood vaccines done as an adult. I literally had to point out to them in words of one syllable that I was a woman of child bearing age and so should really be getting MMR before they'd give it to me! (Although oddly enough once they'd agreed to give it they never checked I wasn't pregnant at the time - I knew I wasn't but you'd think they'd check.)

AHF1975 · 23/07/2020 09:36

I think if the OP still isn't persuaded to get her childhood vaccinations which have clear benefits and have been given to many millions over a long time period, she isn't going to be rushing to have the covid vaccine. Therefore not really sure what the point of this thread was, although it certainly woke up a few antivaxxers. Anyway OP, I suggest you read up on tetanus (the illness) and at least consider whether the benefits of that vaccination outweigh any possible 'risk'.

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