I won't be having the vaccine purely based on the fact of me not being bothered sufficiently about covid to have it. The virus has an average age of death above life expectancy, it affects a tiny percentage sufficiently severely to hospitalise them, let alone kill them with huge numbers needing to test for the virus to ascertain if they have even had it as it's asymptomatic for huge numbers. A vaccine or any health treatment for that matter is there for the individual not some sort of dystopian world where we foist medical treatment on people for " the greater good".
The two main points to encourage people not worried about covid to have the vaccine seem to be " to help others " and " to avoid lockdowns". Let's deal with those two areas starting with the former of this idea of the greater good for society.
Bearing in mind the vulnerable have had the vaccine, the benefits of others having it are negligible so we are left with the argument of " protecting others that can't have it". Are people seriously suggesting that healthy young people at no real risk of covid should risk their lives/health/ mental well being forcing themselves to have medical treatment against their will for this tiny group.. if that's the case let's expand this mindset
I want to go out but have a heavy cold( not covid) = Have you no thought for imunosuppressed people who may suffer serious health problems catching your cold by you not self isolating?
I don't give to charity= Have you no consideration for just donating £10 per month for starving children in the third world that will be guaranteed to save lives as you spend that money on a bottle of wine you selfish imbecile?
I don't give blood/ bone marrow= Why don't you want to do something painless that will save lives you selfish awful person?
I drive a car= Why don't you catch public transport or better still ride a little bike with a bell on the front to stop global warming and air pollution you selfish person.. do lives in the third world decimated by droughts attributable to climate change?
We could go on and on with this virtue signalling rubbish- when does it end and when do we all take a degree of personal responsibility for our own health accepting our finite existences where everyone including me will be either dead or near death in 50- 60 years or much less?
The second issue of taking vaccines to avoid government legislation is a disgusting mindset straight out of an Orwell novel where infact the opposite could be argued. Instead of people flapping their arms around like demented birds approaching Christmas crying in terror over vaccine risks, the mongolian/Indian/southafrican/ yorkshire strain, maybe people can take part in peaceful protests against various rights being taken away from them rather than rushing off to get vaccines because the government said so. The so called football super league which on the grand scheme of things is obviously unimportant yet the mass protests shortly put an end to that but young peoples lives are being destroyed results in supposed sensible people rushing off to the dr to get a vaccine hoping " it is the way out". Are people seriously naive enough to think even with everyone jabbed to the eyeballs with thousands arriving in the country every day / new strains/ needing to get boosters and jabs again next year with immunity from the jab lasting months rather than years that this the answer to a free society where we surrender body autonomy to the state?..
To summarise, make your own decisions regarding any vaccine instead of the default setting of squawking about anti vaxxers who don't want to suffer for many what amount to unpleasant side effects relating to a disease that kills people with an average age of 82.