WWYD? Been offered place on list for vaccine, but not priority group

[TierFourTears]

I'm not in any of the priority groups for a vaccine.
Work have just said that as I'm involved in lateral flow testing, I can be put on a wait list for a covid vaccination with 24 hrs notice of the appointment.

Part of me says take it, but then you see all the angst of people saying folk are queue jumping, and why should a healthy (overweight!) under 40 get vaccinated before the higher priority groups.
WWYD? Accept and keep quiet or decline the possibility of an appointment?

Accept it

Take it!

Take it. It's a bloody disgrace that vacinnators and testers were not amongst the first to receive the vaccine.

It's likely a list of people to contact at short notice to stop some being wasted at the end of a day. Better to have people on the list who they can reach easily and who are dealing with dealing in a clinical-type setting.

@YesMeLady

Take it. It's a bloody disgrace that vacinnators and testers were not amongst the first to receive the vaccine.

Perhaps there's a danger people would be motivated to volunteer for that reason alone. Then, once vaccinated, they'd never turn up to a volunteer shift.

Ok, thanks Vipers.
That's not the direction I thought most of the answers would go to given other recent threads on the subject.
I've filled in the details to go on the potential vaccination list. Let's see if anything actually comes of it!

@thereisonlyoneofme, and others in priority groups, I hope you get offered a vaccination appointment soon.

I would also accept. My workplace has just done the same as we are a frontline organisation working in homes with vulnerable families. I'm furloughed at the moment and even when I'm back I'm office based but as I also work in a school part time where I've not been offered a vaccine so I am going to take it.

As someone else said, if you decline, you may decline the vaccine altogether.

I’ve had the vax, on the priority list because of my job but don’t have a medical reason for it. I felt really bad, but I realised that if I get ill and I’m not working for any time there is no one to do my job as our service is rammed at the moment. That means the vulnerable children I work with won’t get a service. My employer needs me to be fit.

So it’s not just about the pressure on the NHS it’s about the pressure on many services if high numbers of people became sick. For example I heard a story of a 999 call centre being in real trouble because so many of their staff were ill or in isolation.

We need services to function.

Take it it’s no one else’s business.