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Vaccine or Covid

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cosmicbabe · 11/01/2021 22:46

If you are young and not in the vulnerable category would you have the vaccine or risk getting Covid?

Do you think our immune system would react better having the actual virus rather than the vaccine?...

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Babdoc · 12/01/2021 09:50

Well, it depends how keen you are to risk death or long term disability from post Covid lung damage and fatigue, OP.
So far Covid has killed over 81,000 people in the UK and nearly 2 million worldwide. The vaccine has killed nobody.
Hmm, such a difficult decision....

rampantvirus · 12/01/2021 09:56

I thought the vaccine gave longer lasting immunity.

I have Covid now, hopefully on the mend. But I will still be getting a vaccine as I am in the vulnerable group. I hope my children get the vaccine too, they are in their 20s

Jessuk86 · 12/01/2021 09:59

I’m 34 and healthy have had my vaccine (nhs inpatient staff) I jumped at the chance the more that have it the quicker this ends

Mindymomo · 12/01/2021 10:02

Reading a post here about a young 29 year old man, who is in hospital seriously ill, who I very much hope gets better, I would rather take the vaccine any day.

Toddlerteaplease · 12/01/2021 10:06

I've had both.

waterlego · 12/01/2021 10:12

I have just had Covid and was very lucky to have it mildly; it was no worse than a moderate cold for me. I will still have the vaccine if offered.

NancyDrew1966 · 12/01/2021 10:21

Mine was worse than flu, illest I've been. Missed the vaccine as I'm currently at home recovering. Hoping to get it when I go back. Certainly don't want to experience it again.

atomt · 12/01/2021 10:22

I'm in my 30s and can't wait to get the vaccine.

Put it this way - there have been plenty of people my age in ICU with covid but no one in ICU due to be given the vaccine...

bengalcat · 12/01/2021 10:26

My 19 year old caught Covid at Uni last term . Funnily enough it was short lived and less troublesome than last years " freshers flu " .

Would I recommend she has the vaccine when available NHS or privately - yes I would .

Borgonzola · 12/01/2021 10:29

You don't just have the vaccine to protect yourself. You have it to protect everyone else, too. That's how they work Hmm

I'm healthy and in my early 30s, and I'd like to see my immunocompromised dad again at some point in the future without worrying that I'm going to kill him by inadvertently passing on something that might not make me that ill, but would absolutely floor him.

So many threads on here seem to show that people still think you only get the vaccine to protect yourself. Mind-boggling

PaddyF0dder · 12/01/2021 10:30

Vaccine, obviously.

rosie1959 · 12/01/2021 10:32

Vaccine

CovoidOfAllHumanity · 12/01/2021 10:34

I'm sorry but this is a dumb question

Drs and scientists invented the vaccine to save us from the harms of Covid

If the vaccine was as harmful or more so to any group of people than Covid itself it wouldn't be licensed for them eg. That's why it's not for children

Obviously you should get the vaccine.

Quartz2208 · 12/01/2021 10:34

Entirely what Borgonzola says. I have had covid as has my husband and we have been fortunate to have had it fairly mildly. But the vaccine is there to reduce down spread and keep it under control and as many people as possible need to have it

thepeopleversuswork · 12/01/2021 10:36

Sorry but this is a frighteningly stupid question.

VikingsandDragons · 12/01/2021 10:50

Two of my friends have had covid, both late 20s/very early 30s. Both have long lasting impacts, one is still pretty much bed bound 7 months later, her life bears no resemblance to what it did this time last year as a newly wed. I will be first in line for a vaccine when I'm eligible.

Fembot123 · 12/01/2021 10:57

I work in a school and have been thinking about waiting around outside a drs for a untaken up vaccine 😂 I’m 39 and no underlying conditions but that seems not to mean much with this indiscriminate virus.

wonkylegs · 12/01/2021 11:06

Vaccines work best when more people have them - covering more of the population protects everyone
The virus has proven harms, so far the tested vaccine doesn't

Anecdote alert - 23yrs ago as a young and healthy 19yo I had a bout of the flu. It was serious enough to put me in bed for a week but not serious enough to hospitalise me. What it did do however was trigger a reaction in my immune system that I will probably have for life. I was soon after diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, triggered by the virus.
I have been in pain and disabled for 23yrs because as a young and healthy 19yo my body reacted badly to a virus. It has affected every part of my life and will probably do so until I die. I have to take powerful medications to suppress my immune system in order to function.
I probably couldn't have avoided or predicted where I am now but if I could go back in time and do something that would have prevented that bout of flu, I would jump at the chance.
Covid is already showing long term effects in some people who catch it, we don't as yet know how long those effects will last but I for one wouldn't assume because I was young and healthy and less likely to die that the effects couldn't be life changing.

Borgonzola · 12/01/2021 12:14

In addition, someone I know of my age who had it a month ago still hasn't got their sense of taste back. I mean... who wants that? It's not life-threatening, but it's shit? Why would you take the risk?

Thimbleberries · 12/01/2021 12:19

"
Do you think our immune system would react better having the actual virus rather than the vaccine?..."

This isn't the kind of thing where it matters what people think. It's not an opinion.
Scientists will have been researching it, and will have evidence. If someone isn't a scientist, or hasn't done the equivalent amount of research themselves on the issue, then I don't really want to know what they think. The media spends far too much time canvassing opinions about things that shouldn't be opinions.

Some people say that they won't have the vaccine until there is a lot more evidence available about its effects, and I always wonder what would actually convince them. They don't have the scientific skills to evaluate the evidence currently available, so how do they think they will be in a better place to evaluate it some months or years from now? Or are they just going to trust someone's word about it then, but not now?

meow1989 · 12/01/2021 12:23

Well im asthmatic so maybe not your target audience but my dh has no increased risk and we will both have the vaccine.

Covid seems pretty changeable on who is affected badly (I know cv people who have been fine with it vs healthy low risk people who have needed ventilation) and I wouldn't want to take the risk myself.

pitterpatterrain · 12/01/2021 12:23

Thimbleberries love that - “The media spends far too much time canvassing opinions about things that shouldn't be opinions.”

And to the PP re the vaccine in children, the evidence isn’t there yet (ie no trials) not that the risk/benefit is weighted to no vaccine

BlueBaubles12 · 12/01/2021 12:23

Is this a genuine question?

Vaccine, for the record.

sonjadog · 12/01/2021 12:27

If you are young and not vulnerable it will be many months until you get the vaccine and by that time millions of people will have had it before you. So you can see how they have got on before you need to make a decision.

alreadytaken · 12/01/2021 12:31

Young NHS staff are jumping at the chance to get the vaccine - especially the ones who have seen what it does. Do you really need to ask?

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