Will famous and rich try to get vaccine?

[Lockdowner13]

I really hope not. I will judge anyone that tries to skip the queue. I bet people try though.

I watched tv earlier this week and a high profile presenter offered to take it live on air “to show people it was safe”... what a waste of a dose. I’d rather a nurse or teacher had it or my vulnerable family member.

Do you think certain people will try to skip the queue?

Yes, but they will do it quietly, under the radar. I doubt it will be possible for a few weeks, especially with the storage requirements of the first approved vaccine, but for sure some rich and/or famous people will want to jump the queue. Maybe there should be a special high tax levied on private vaccinations, with the cash being used to help fund the NHS. May as well raise some money for the NHS if people are going to queue jump anyway.

I think that with the popularity of celebrities and the prominence of social media, the govt may actually offer the vaccine to "influencers" to get more of the public to take up the offer of the vaccine.

I don't think that will happen until the most vulnerable have been vaccinated though. For PR reasons

I'm sure there will be an option to pay for a private vaccination...... Like paying for private health care, costs more but you get it sooner.

Unfortunately sometimes money does tslk.

Getting someone like piers Morgan or Lorraine Kelly to have to live will convince
More people that it's perfectly safe. It's worth a few doses to get the message across

Bet they've already had it

Probably, but not until they get to about the 60 year olds and some more vaccine is available, they won't at the moment I don't think as there is very short supply. If there is plenty of vaccine and it is just a time element to getting it then I guess you will be able to buy your place in the queue

I think the queue system is imperfect. Eg a 45yo teacher ought to be a higher priority than a 60yo retired teacher because the 45yo is having kids breathe at them all day.

Some of us are at a lot more risk than others. There are people (I read this about someone on here) who have essentially exited society - the family had quit their toddler from nursery and they were basically confined to their home and garden with everything being delivered. These people are at very low risk.

I’d skip the queue. I do a lot of looking after of 3 elderly family members. Who are very, very sick. I have visited several hospitals all through lockdown with them, even at the start where people were shit scared even to go out of the front door. I’ve got them food, picked up meds, basically done everything risky that they need doing to protect them. I have 2dc in secondaries. So yes, I’ll happily skip the queue if allowed - I’ve been out in it putting myself at risk from day 1 and the older family members are at risk from me if my dc give it to me from school. I’ve worked all round the clock looking after everyone, I never have any time for myself and am fat and menopausal. Judge me, it really doesn’t matter, I’ve done my best for everyone, I continue to do it, so I think I do deserve some protection before people who don’t need to put themselves at risk.

How would it be different than the flu vaccine I had earlier I paid for that (a whole £12.50)

I would definitely pay for the Covid vaccine as it would make me feel safer working with children

Definitely. It might not be available privately to the general public, but the rich and famous (and MPs) will get it if they want to - abroad, if not here.

And yes, it's exactly as previous posters have said. They're going to 'volunteer' to take it. Matt Hancock (healthy and under 45) has already said that's what he wants to do.

i don't think it will be possible, at least in uk to get the vaccine privately. that is what i have read. maybe eventually, when most everyone has had it, or to incomers, it might be available to people able to pay. but not initially. it is being carefully controlled.
there is such a lot of alarming misinformation around, i think it would be good to see some prominent people be vaccinated publicly. to encourage others. but even then the loopy-loos will say it was not the actual vaccine that they were injected.
heard piers corbyn on radio, how someone so intelligent cab so deluded, obsessed with conspiracy theories etc. sad.

Maybe some famous and rich people will try to skip the vaccine rather than the queue

It’s different to flu jab... I pay for that privately too but there isn’t a supply issue, it’s been around years, and flu didn’t shut down the entire world!

The vast majority (4 in 5) want the vaccine. With such limited supplies, there's absolutely no need whatsoever for 'prominent' people to queue jump.

I agree with you, it won't be available privately in the UK for quite some time. But, the rich and famous will somehow manage to get it if they want to. Either as 'volunteers' or abroad.

China, for example, has clinics offering it's vaccine on first come, first served basis for a small payment. The UK is currently on their barred entry list, but other countries like France are allowed in with negative tests (the French took more measures than us and therefore succeeded in lowering their case rate).

Matt Hancock (healthy and under 45) has already said that's what he wants to do.

I’m not a fan of the guy but come on, he was put on the spot live on air by Piers Morgan and said that he’d be willing to do it, but rightly pointed out that neither of them would be front of the queue. Pretty much the only answer he could give at the time without fuelling the ‘see, it’s not safe’ nonsense.

If it was available and I could afford it, I would have it.

For the hardcore tin hatters nothing will change their mind.

Giving it to prominent influencers buys into a rhetoric that it is unsafe and needs to be proved safe by moronic insta clebs. I'd rather we didn't stoop to that level and just stuck to the facts from medical professionals.

I think the queue system is imperfect. Eg a 45yo teacher ought to be a higher priority than a 60yo retired teacher because the 45yo is having kids breathe at them all day.

I’m so glad you’ve said this because I thinks this too, yet every time i mention it people think I’m daft.

I’d pay to have it done, and if there’s any chance of doing so I will. I’m neither rich or famous.

I also think teachers should be given higher priority. Given all the emphasis on keeping schools open.

Former US Presidents Obama, Bush & Clinton have all said they'll get the vaccine publicly televised to encourage anti-vaxxers in the US to get the jabs.
I guess they'd probably be skipping fairly high up the list - they've probably got decent health insurance that'll cover it for one thing...
But hey, the US people get to see both two Democrats & one Republican putting their money where their mouth is, figuratively speaking.
No news about Trump....

Why would they even need it?

It seems they are not affected by the virus, and they aren't spreaders because they don't need to self obsolete anyway, so why even get vaccinated?

Self obsolete, if only....

self Isolate

The live on tv idea is a bit weird because it could be so easily faked so if you are the sort of person who didn’t believe Boris if he said he had it why would you believe there was vaccine in the syringe rather than saline?
Plenty of famous people in their 80s will likely be having it soon just in the normal run of things so if they’re trying to mobilise peer group pressure they could just report on those. ‘Buckingham Palace today announced...’ etc.

Trying to think of celebrities over 80 that could be rolled in front of cameras to prove vaccine is safe without compromising policy.
Can only think of Mary Berry and David Attenborough.
I'm sure there are more the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh would qualify but can't see them on television with their sleeves rolled up

Wikipedia has a list of British actors by decade of birth.
Julie Andrews, Tom Baker, Brian Blessed and many more .. here