To ask if you're not getting the vaccine...

[Soitis83]

Then why? Just curious as to why some people will not get it

I’ll be having it because I want my life back.

@Trumplosttheelection

Oooh homeopathy! Perfect, thanks. I've spent this week working out how to get enough cpap machines on the wards without exhausting the fecking oxygen but I'll bin that effort tomorrow and just go for essence of fuchsia in a golden capsule.

FFS.

Throw in some dandelion tea & jobs a good 'un

Thank you for doing what you do - lots of us counting on you to be there for us when we need you. It's a lot of pressure I know, but IS MUCH APPRECIATED by those of us with brain cells.

By the way, what are your feelings about the 'clapping'?

I'm still Undecided - but I'll do whatever you'd be happiest with (have already sent a letter to my MP re wages & funding- but sadly he's a useless twat, so not sure it'll help too much).

I’ll probably have it but I’m way down the list being amongst the healthiest demographics.
I’m sure some countries will make it a requirement of visiting, so that’ll certainly give me the kick to get it as and when the old and infirm, key workers, teachers, delivery drivers, hospitality workers etc have theirs. Probably looking at a year or at least.

@PolarExpressislate

Good for you. Clearly it worked for her thou so quit with your arsy remarks

Like fuck it did.

For someone working in Covid ICU having to listen to bullshit about homeopathy cures for Covid I thought she was incredibly restrained & does not deserve your 'telling off'. How about you go & work on a Covid ward/ICU before posting such shite?!

I'm not sure if l'll be able to have it - l have multiple allergies, mainly prescription drugs, but also some food allergies. I have to have a red wristband listing my allergies every time l go into hospital.
I even reacted to surgical staples - they had to replace them with silk sutures. And l've had bad reactions to vaccines in the past. I had a 'dead' arm for a week after a tetanus booster.
I have asthma and a bleeding/blood disorder.
Hoping that l'll be able to have the 'antibody' (not sure what the proper name is) thing if not, though. I'm over 60 and a key worker.

Because it's bullshit.

Yup. It has no scientific basis whatsoever. You may as well rely on licking toads.

Actually, I lie. The placebo effect is of course evidenced to some extent, which at best you'll possibly slightly benefit from while taking magic sugar pills and ointment of water.

I work in community care care. Even with PPE 30 out of my 160 colleagues have had Covid, some have been extremely ill, a few have developed long covid, many of them are not fit to work their usual hours.
Out of our service users 4 have died, none of them particularly frail, one having only limited care. This situation has caused unlimited anxiety, stress, emotional problems to our staff. We have just had our first vaccination. Everyone except one member of staff was vaccinated, none of us have been unwell. I cannot understand the biggoted folly of those who are refusing.

@Ginfordinner

Thank fuck facebook wasn’t around when the smallpox vaccine was doing the rounds. Or the TB one... those illnesses died out purely because they just did.... oh, wait, I believe vaccination played a part, and we didn’t have a platform for antivaxx lunes to spout their crap.

Or they are too young to remember seeing children wearing leg irons as a result of polio and too young to have had measles (which affected my hearing and eyesight).

@haggistramp, @PolarExpressislate @Loveheartsweet please read Indoctro's post.

Quite.

I'm not. One of my school friends wore a calliper.
My sister's eyesight was ruined by measles.
My father had TB when I was a baby and he had to go to a sanatorium to recover. Luckily the vaccine was available for me.

@NiceLegsShameAboutTheFace

I won't be having the vaccine. In a similar manner to PPS, I take vaccines either (a) when I'm forced to (for travel sometimes) or (b) using a risk-based approach.

I'm 53 and in excellent health. I don't consider myself in a high risk group for Covid and, as PPs have said, I'll have what I think I need. I don't have a flu vaccine either.

For the thousands asserting that they're doing this for others ..... what an altruistic bunch you are. I'm happy to do my bit for society in other ways.

No-one thinks their high risk, till they are.

I hope your 'bit' for others is health related and not just recycling your plastic bags.

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@WilsonMilson

Antibody dependent enhancement (ADE) is my main, but not only, concern.

It is rapidly becoming socially unacceptable to express any level of dissent about a covid vaccine, that worries me too.

Dissent would be welcomed if it was fact/science backed and not woo.

Anaphylactic reaction to several antibiotics and foods.
I just think it's too risky for me.

@Nanny0gg

Yeah .... if I were you I'd steer clear of a career in finance, insurance or anything that demands a level of risk profiling.

My 'bit for society' is what I want it to be. I make my choices. I'm happy with them. I can look myself in the eye quite happily.

You are perfectly entitled to have an alternative view. That's kinda what makes the world interesting ....

@DeeCeeCherry

I want to wait until (hopefully) I can gauge that it's safe. If it was a cure-all the rich/elite would have their hands on it 1st, we would not be a priority. I feel as if we're guinea pigs.

I am not a conspiracy theorist, just came to my own conclusions. My Mum told me she was wary of Thalidomide in the early 1960s (when I was born) even when it was being touted as safe and people who thought it wasn't were scaremongers.

To have a particular vaccination or not is a private decision I don't see why people are being asked about it or as I've seen elsewhere on MN, harangued about it.

Your post is full of conspiracy theories.

I wonder how many people saying they wouldn’t have it would change their minds if it was a requirement for overseas travel or to go to a restaurant/concert etc.

@GypsyLee

I'm waiting to see how the guinea pigs react to it, before taking it myself. Early days yet.

That’s a disgraceful attitude. How dare you call other people who are doing this without fuss, “guinea pigs.”?

I wonder how many people saying they wouldn’t have it would change their minds if it was a requirement for overseas travel or to go to a restaurant/concert etc.

Well, I might have to reconsider if life's gonna be stupidly difficult. I don't think that I should be coerced in such a manner though. Neither do I believe that all those desperate for the vaccine on here are doing it for the common good. Most, I suspect, are looking after themselves. I'm doing likewise.

Pregnant

I'm not on my own, look at the other posts.
We don't know anything about this yet. Those taking it first are guinea pigs, trialling it for everyone else. Hardly being daring, is it? I might consider it in a couple of years when we have some results, if there's any need then.

@NiceLegsShameAboutTheFace

I wonder how many people saying they wouldn’t have it would change their minds if it was a requirement for overseas travel or to go to a restaurant/concert etc.

Well, I might have to reconsider if life's gonna be stupidly difficult. I don't think that I should be coerced in such a manner though. Neither do I believe that all those desperate for the vaccine on here are doing it for the common good. Most, I suspect, are looking after themselves. I'm doing likewise.

It IS possible to consider your own need to survive this and to live a normal life, in addition to doing your bit for the greater good.

Try to take than on board whilst you work out how to peer beyond the end of your own selfish nose.

...that on board...

@littleeggcup

Pregnant

And?

@GypsyLee

I'm not on my own, look at the other posts. We don't know anything about this yet. Those taking it first are guinea pigs, trialling it for everyone else. Hardly being daring, is it? I might consider it in a couple of years when we have some results, if there's any need then.

Insufferable.

Well, I might have to reconsider if life's gonna be stupidly difficult. I don't think that I should be coerced in such a manner though.

But you’ll accept the benefits (i.e. a return to normal and what you enjoy doing) of other people having the vaccine?

I’m not refusing as such.. just waiting. I am cautious as it’s an unknown vaccine, not been tested enough and nobody knows long term side effects. I’m not sure if I have finished having children yet.