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Will you vaccinate against Covid?

338 replies

DelilahfromDevon · 19/09/2020 09:44

Let me start by saying I’ve never been an anti vaxxer and have vaccinated my family in the usual way. Also vaccinated them against chicken pox. They get vaccinated against the flu at school but I’ve never been vaccinated myself with the exception of the pregnancy years when it’s recommended.

But I am undecided vaccinating against Covid. Firstly due to unknown side effects of a vaccination that’s being rushed through. Secondly, only 370 people under 60 without medical conditions have died from Covid. No children. (Source Daily Telegraph). Most people who catch it don’t die and at worst have minor symptoms.

If I do decide to vaccinate it will purely be for the greater good of the elderly and those who are immunocompromised rather than because I think/am concerned I’m going to get it myself.
Curious as to what other people’s thoughts on it are?

OP posts:
2020goawaynow · 20/09/2020 12:54

For all those saying you don't know the long term side effects - you don't know the long term side effects of Covid-19 itself so it's 50/50

zafferana · 20/09/2020 13:05

Yes - we'll get it as soon as we're offered it (none of us are in vulnerable groups, but I am concerned about Long Covid).

chocolatecheesecake · 20/09/2020 13:13

Yes. Pace is achieved by doing things like mass manufacture ahead of trial results (in principle that it is better to waste millions on manufacture than have millions die/life on hold while we wait for manufacturing at scale to happen once we have trial results) and through regulators prioritising covid medicines rather than them joining the queue for assessment. While I'm low risk, I don't want other people to die unnecessarily, I don't want long covid and I want my life to get back to normal. So a mixture of selfish and unselfish reasons.

Heffalooomia · 20/09/2020 13:14

First I want a test that tells me if I am susceptible to covid

Dee1975 · 20/09/2020 15:03

Im pro vaccine, but for this - Probably not. I wouldn’t be in the first wave anyway. I’d prob wait a year. As you say op, very low deaths in people under a certain age with no other medical conditions. So I’d rather wait until it’s fined tuned ....

utterlynutty · 20/09/2020 15:15

Yes I would.I'm not in any high risk group and neither are any family members .I want life to return to the way it was pre Covid.I want to be able to visit family and friends and go on holidays.
If I was to contract Covid 19 and be asymptotic I would hate to think I could potentially pass it on to someone more vulnerable.The more people who are vaccinated,the less chance there is of this horrid virus spreading.

BlueBlancmange · 20/09/2020 15:35

@2020goawaynow

For all those saying you don't know the long term side effects - you don't know the long term side effects of Covid-19 itself so it's 50/50
Yes although there's mounting evidence they can be quite nasty, so I think I'd rather take my chances with a vaccine that has been through safety testing.
CloudsCanLookLikeSheep · 20/09/2020 15:46

I would take the vaccine. I presume there are stringent health and safety checks or else it would probably already be available. I just want this whole shit show to be over.

CeeceeBloomingdale · 20/09/2020 16:20

Without a doubt

Stripyhoglets1 · 20/09/2020 16:26

Yes I would. Not likely to be at the front of the Q for it though but I will get it.

Spinakker · 20/09/2020 16:56

No

AbsolutWitch · 20/09/2020 17:04

No....I would only have it if I absolutely had to

Heffalooomia · 20/09/2020 17:16

I want to be able to visit family and friends and go on holidays
...to countries where there is no covid

Timtims · 20/09/2020 17:17

I'll take my chances with the vaccine thanks.
I maybe being a 'sheep', but my DC's education is being royally fucked, my friends are losing their jobs, and my parents are still shielding due to being high risk, so I'll do what is needed to eradicate this horrendous virus.

Bagadverts · 20/09/2020 17:35

Yes. Family in high risk group. Also willing to take the risk of vaccine. there would be a risk from Covid as well as even low risk people can have long lasting consequences.

TheElementsOfMedical · 20/09/2020 18:39

...to countries where there is no covid

Meaning?

PerkingFaintly · 20/09/2020 18:44

Yes, definitely.

PerkingFaintly · 20/09/2020 18:50

@knittingaddict

If I wasn't an unhealthy mess and getting on a bit in years I would have volunteered to help test the vaccine too.
This too.

And in answer to the PP's further question, no I'm not in a high-risk group or living with anyone who is. Nor do I need to prove I'm Covid-clear to go to work or go about my normal life.

So my personal benefit is nearly zero.

I'll still get the vaccine. I want to prevent or significantly reduce the spread of the virus to other people.

Headspinner2020 · 20/09/2020 19:00

Absolutely not!

MJMG2015 · 20/09/2020 19:10

@Tiny2018

Any decent vaccine generally takes on average 10 years of research and testing time to be deemed fully effective and safe. It's a no from me.
Tiny

It's being done so quickly because there has been a lot of money thrown at the research & testing, it's being prioritised over pretty much everything else, it's not just sitting around between stages waiting for funding or reviewing/approving and it's being manufactured before it's completely finished the trial - they accept it might need to be disposed of of it doesn't 'pass'.

All that is being done because it's a pandemic.

The testing is not being skimped on!

MartiniDry · 20/09/2020 19:12

Thank you for the clarification complete with emoji, TheElements, but I'd already put my hands up to my error and apologised for making no sense. Gimme a break, please! 🙃

Parker231, forgive me if I come across as taking an issue with you personally because that's really not my intention. 🙂 You've spoken again of the unvaccinated having limitations put upon them but apart from foreign travel you haven't really said what these limitations might be. The restrictions and punishments depend firstly on people being 'caught out', and that goes back to knowing whether the proverbial woman with the blue rinse in John Lewis has or has not been jabbed prior to going shopping for handbags.

How does a country successfully limit it's unvaccinated citizens?

Sunshinegirl82 · 20/09/2020 19:25

I wouldn't support mandatory vaccination. Quite a lot of countries limit access to things like benefits and state services (childcare, schools etc) without evidence of vaccination. The Australian version of child benefit is only paid if your child is vaccinated as I understand it.

I can see there being ways to encourage vaccination without making it mandatory.

feelingverylazytoday · 20/09/2020 19:28

Yes I will be vaccinated as soon as I'm offered it. Can't wait.

Parker231 · 20/09/2020 19:31

@MartiniDry - I have no idea. In some US states children can’t start nursery or school without having had certain vaccinations although some are exempt on limited medical grounds. I remember my nephews having to have the chicken pox vaccination before starting kindergarten.

GinJeanie · 20/09/2020 20:09

Yes. I've had Covid and it was awful. I have a family member with Long Covid too.
I remember one anti-vaxxer Mum explaining that her baby DD wasn't having her vaccinations and they were riding on the 95% (or whatever figure) of people taking them up so they could benefit from the herd immunity. I thought that was strikingly selfish given she thought the vaccine was harmful but expected others to administer it to their children so they didn't need to take any "risk". I do wonder if some folk think that about the Covid vaccine too... 😕