Teachers, school staff, university staff - will you get the vaccine?

[HelloMissus]

Just read a thread where a good proportion of NHS staff say they won’t get the vaccine when it becomes available.

So just wondering what school and university staff will do.

@tobee it's ok! I've got used to being a medical freak!

Teachers won’t be offered it as priority, we’re just disposable items to the Government. We’ll be last in the list.

Yes.

It will be very safe by the time teachers can have it. Let's be honest, no one is that bothered about teachers, so we will be at the back of a very long queue.

Yes, though I doubt it will be offered as a priority to uni staff. I agree with PP that it's essential to protect people like OpheliasCrayon who have legit reasons for not getting the vaccine!

I work in secondary school. No way I will get the vaccine. Not for a good number of years anyway.

[quote Unionise]I hope it’s ok to put this here, but it feels pretty relevant to this thread. There’s a petition going about the fact that teachers etc aren’t on for priority vaccines. Worth a shot! I’d definitely have one.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/554316[/quote]
Thanks for the link - signed

Yes, as soon as I can.

I'm Clinically vulnerable and just had Covid. It caused me to feel pretty unwell and caused my blood pressure to reach dangerously high levels. I've alert been off work for a fortnight, it's now half term and due to my blood pressure and other symptoms, although I'm no longer contagious I can't return to work until my BP is low enough - the earliest I can return is a week on Thursday so that'll be nearly a month off work.

Apparently there's no guarantee I'll be immune, though I should be for a few months, but behind that they don't know.

I don't want this again so I'm more than willing to accept the vaccine.

I also have spoken to medic friends regarding the vaccine and the concerns of it being rushed through - and they feel it's safe and hasn't missed vital steps, just that it's had more resources and cash pushed through quicker enabling it to be ready sooner.

I also have the flu jab annually and always take that up. I've been looking at whether I should be having the pneumonia one too.

MrsHamlet - me and 18y Dd went to the local pharmacy and had ours. Didn't have to make an appointment either. Mine was the free one and DD's was paid for.

Thanks, Aragog. I might trail round the pharmacies this week waving my arm and begging someone to stab it!

So many people think they've had flu, when it's just a heavy cold.

To be fair that's because you can have flu in varying degrees and colds with varying issues.
They are entirely different viruses and can affect people on different ways.

People can have flu with few symptoms.
They can have really nasty colds.
They can have very serious flu which hospitalised them.

I developed pneumonia following a nasty cold. It wasn't flu.

We see this debate re flu and colds every year and it's a myth that you only ever feel dreadful with flu and anything less is a cold.

No I won’t have it, unless other countries start saying we can’t get in without it.

Yes. No hesitation.

@NailsNeedDoing

No I won’t have it, unless other countries start saying we can’t get in without it.

Really, that's your criteria? Have you reread that with your "how does this make me sound" filter on?

With over 27,000 cases in U.K. unis in the last month I would in a heartbeat if it meant we can begin to move on. They might be moving at pace given urgency but I don’t consider it to be rushed. Uni lecturer.