Vaccine or no vaccine? Opinions please

[gonewiththegin]

I am mid thirties, female with no existing health conditions. By no means an anti vaxer but I feel very uneasy about getting the jab.

I am aware it’s for the benefit of others more than myself, after all I’ve spent the best part of a year wfh and in complete isolation from anyone not in my household. I feel I’ve done my bit, I protected the vulnerable when there was as no vaccine. Now there is one and they’ve all had their first jag.

I think they government is aware the younger generations with no health conditions will likely have the same opinion as myself hence the talk of vaccine passports for gigs etc. IMO this is blackmail and a lot to people who were not planning on having the jag now will do so purely so they can go on holiday.

Is there something I am missing? Should I just get the jag and be done with it, it should I reject on the basis that I am fit and healthy.

@HarrietOh

I’m early 30s and had a headache with covid and that’s it. Lots of fit friends all younger than 40 (I know through gym) who’ve had it also the same. A lot of those friends have also had the vaccine, due to their jobs, and have reported fevers, aches, feeling like crap for a day or two etc. This stuff with the clots, I’m not really happy with. Yes COVID can be worse but it wasn’t for me, so now I have to put myself potentially at risk from suffering side effects to protect myself from a virus that only caused me a headache.

when babies are vaccinated against things like whooping cough, tetanus etc, we are told they might feel grotty for a few days and to give them calpol.

No-one even thinks twice about this side of vsccination.
But give adults a vaccine and say they might feel grotty for a few days and everyone thinks it is a big deal to have the vaccine!
It is a normal immune response to feel grotty for a few days after a vaccine.

Have you had the vaccine yet? I’m anti vaccines. It’s always been free choice (I get the fact everyone else has herd immunity so they protect me) but now it’s free choice to have it, but you can’t live a life without it? No travel, pubs etc. I get what you mean by “blackmail”. I’ve had covid, as have my kids, and we had a runny nose/cold but that was it, so possibly have my immunity. I Could still transmit but so can anyone who’s had the vaccine. I’ve never put my views on anyone but everyone seems to be happy to think this is a time to be outright mean, and that makes a lot of peoples mental health far worse, but no one seems to care as long as they get their opinion out there. I hope you make the right choice for you, and don’t be bullied into it.

My best mate is 37 and got covid last year. She worked in a gym and was super fit. She’s got long covid and is still struggling with her breathing nearly a year later.

So I don’t think it can reasonably be said that you would be having the jab for the benefit of others. It would give you protection as well.

However, have the jab, don’t have the jab. It’s your choice.

Just over 50% of the staff in the school I work in had covid before Christmas and several are still unable to come back to work full time - large age range. Besides protecting yourself from potentially feeling really ill, potentially getting long covid, possibly even dying, having the vaccine may help contribute to protecting us all from being locked down again due to rapid spread of the virus causing deaths to go up again, particularly amongst the vulnerable vaccinated who did not get good protection from their vaccine. Do you want to be locked down again?! Is risking that a lesser risk than risking the vaccine?

I think you should have the jabs. You have no idea if you have any unknown underlying conditions, how your body will react if you caught any of the variants, if God forbid a new variant came that affects young people more etc

Also the vaccine is proven to help stop transmission. That means you are less likely to cause harm to an vulnerable or elderly people you meet if you are unknowingly infectious.

However I strongly also believe your body your choice

I agree with you and I am hesitant too. If you look at the Yellow Card Scheme (where people report adverse reactions on the governement website) over 1200 have died shortly after the vaccine and there have been over 800,000 adverse side effects including strokes, neurological disorders and blindess. Given that the vulnerable have been vaccinated and are therefore no longer at risk of developing severe symptoms I am not willing to take the risk.

I actually got the vaccine less than 2 weeks ago. To be honest I didn’t want it nor do I feel like I needed it but see it as the closest way to the freedoms we used to have.

I haven’t felt great since I’ll be honest, very lethargic and a general ache in my bones but hopefully this eases up soon

By no means an anti vaxer

Are you sure? Your posts read the opposite.

Zombie thread, people....