Anyone not having vaccine , why aren't you?

[LazyDaisy10]

Is anyone not having the vaccine and what are your reasons? Im in my 30s I'm not having the vaccine because I'm worried about the long term effects that might not come to light for a few years. Why are you not having it?
If you think the vaccine is amazing and anyone not having it is selfish you probably don't need to comment.

Thank God OP you have us taking the risk on your behalf. Just wish you'd do the same.

Very good call, @LazyDaisy10. Healthy people in their 30s shouldn't be getting this, IMHO. I'm older than you, so the risk-benefit calculations are different. But I think your decision is spot-on.

If this vaccine is as good as they say it is, we oldies will be protected by it. The last thing I'd want is for younger people to gamble their health on a product that's still in trials till 2023.

Stay strong, OP.

@katylees You sound incredibly ignorant. Obesity is a disease so to refer to the person as an 'obese colleague' is stigmatising and shameful. The correct term is 'colleague with obesity'. Your colleague is making national insurance contributions so is entitled to medical care via the NHS. Does the fact that I contribute many more times than the average person mean that I am entitled to receive much more care? I think not, so the argument applies both ways.

@WishingHopingThinkingPraying I'm not asking anyone to take a risk for me. If I were elderly or vulnerable i would take the vaccine, I'm not so I don't think it's unreasonable to have concerns.

It's all very well some of you speaking from behind the comfort of (relative) youth! I wonder how you would be feeling if you were over 60 and were disappointed to see that younger people couldn't contribute to the greater good by having the vaccination?

@MagicSummer it wouldn’t bother me. I would hope the vaccine would do its job and protect me from serious illness and death. I wouldn’t be thinking about what other people were doing.

I’m 31 and I’ve decided against having it for now. I’m going to wait a little while. I have very bad health anxiety and I’m concerned the worry about potential side effects will send me into an episode again.
Rightly or wrongly, that’s my decision for the moment, it might seem selfish, but I need to think of my mental health too. I struggle taking antibiotics, as I’m so scared of medication and potential side effects.

@MagicSummer, the idea of people younger than me shutting down their lives - and now taking a jab which is more likely to harm them than it is to harm me - sickens me. If we older people are protected by the jab anyway, why would I want people younger than me to take it and risk their health when they're in their prime. Bonkers.

I wonder are people who refuse the vaccine because of potential long term side effects like this in every other area of their life?

E.g. they are not overweight, don’t drink or smoke, don’t live near busy roads or other polluted areas, don’t take any drugs - legal or illegal, eat only organic unprocessed food that hasn’t been wrapped in plastic etc?

Are they obsessive over their health generally?
I can be a bit of a hypochondriac at the best of times and almost never take any medicine even paracetamol because I worry about unintended side effects. So I definitely didn’t like the idea of having the vaccine and didn’t much enjoy the 24 hours of fever/chills I had afterwards either. But I figured it’s for the greater good and that logically the long term risks are not going to be much more than loads of other things I do every day without thinking anyway.

@MagicSummer

It's all very well some of you speaking from behind the comfort of (relative) youth! I wonder how you would be feeling if you were over 60 and were disappointed to see that younger people couldn't contribute to the greater good by having the vaccination?

Disappointed to see that younger people couldn't contribute to the greater good? Ummmm, schools shut, all children's activities shut, exercise groups shut, not allowed to mix with friends of any age, jobs on the line, unable to enjoy anything other than walks in the park? Can you not see the irony of this comment? Younger people have sacrificed a huge amount already for the greater good.

irish yes definitely. I’m meticulous about my health. Pretty much as you describe. We have a family history of cancer and I do everything I can. For me to take this vaccine is a massive deal. Massive

I feel that there should be a better vaccine injury fund for people who are affected. If I get a long term illness as a result of the vaccine that I take to protect others, I feel the least they can do is pay my salary when I can no longer work!

I also feel a little like I have to take the vaccine to help those who aren’t as careful with their health and walk around in an obese state. This does irritate me. But I’m very aware their are thousands of people with medical conditions who can’t take w vaccine. And it’s for them I will take it

Very true @Seriouslymole but apparently none of that means anything if they don’t get vaccinated against something that is unlikely to make them ill

@IrishGirl2020 funny enough, I could actually tick a lot of the boxes on your list None of them are why I’m not having the vaccine though. To me, logically, the risk of covid is much less than loads of other things I do every day without thinking anyway. So why would I need to protect myself against it?

The correlation between people who can't use your/you're correctly and are anti-vaxxers speaks volumes.

@Crispychillibeef

The correlation between people who can't use your/you're correctly and are anti-vaxxers speaks volumes.

Who do you consider an anti-vaxxer though? Many of us on here are not anti-vaxxers (and know how to use you're/your correctly!) but are merely expressing concern about the unknowns of a new vaccine.

As I said before, the vitriol towards anyone who dares asks questions on this is utterly baffling. You don't help change people's minds just by being an arsehole, you know.

I have a mysterious condition that comes with a lot of neurological-type symptoms, but has gone undiagnosed because no test (as yet) has seemed to be able to determine what's wrong. Since for now I am able to live a largely 'normal' life (albeit with accompanying pain and fatigue), I certainly don't want to gamble with the possibility of making it any worse, and for that reason, I have decided not to have the vaccine. I, like many others who, conversely, may have decided to take the vaccine, have a family and a 'self' to take care of and do my absolute best for, and for me, this currently feels like the safest option. I also don't feel we know enough yet about potential long term effects to be comfortable having it.

This is all just my opinion. In an ideal world, everyone should do what is best for them and their family, without fear of judgement or criticism from one side or the other. I personally respect everybody's choice, and would hope to be afforded the same basic courtesy, but sadly suspect this will not be the case.

I do find it depressing when some people are so arrogant as to assume that they know better than somebody else what is right for that person and their own body; whether they are taking the vaccine or not, it's not fair.

All that being said, I don't particularly fancy Covid either, but as an otherwise healthy and young person with a fully functional immune system, I don't consider myself to be at huge risk.

*You don't help change people's minds just by being an arsehole, you know
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@RockWhatRock

I bloody love the vaccine. I’d have it every day if I could.

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DH had his today, the queue was huge. It's brilliant to see so many people getting it done.

I'm not refusing it (though I wish I could), but yes irish I meet almost all of your criteria. I'm sure there are more than a few of us out there who do.

I've been reading on reddit that vaccines provoke a particularly strong immune reaction in women due to our hormones, and it can be normal to expect up to a few months of minor issues after a big immune response because of this.

@Roonerspismed
Yes that’s exactly why I’m taking it - for other people - definitely not for me. Personally, given the choice, I would rather have taken my chances with Covid - but to get back to some sort of normal and protect people more vulnerable than me I just don’t feel there is any other option.
There’s no other reason I would willingly have a ‘foreign’ substance injected into me otherwise.

Because the vaccine is on trial until 2023 so there is no longitudinal data on its safety. Its emergency licence is for emergency use and therefore, should be used for high risk members of the public until we know and understand more about it.

I won't be having it. We're ttc our 2nd at the moment and after a miscarriage in February, I don't want anything to mess with my periods. I have very regular cycles and it's important for me not to destabilise anything at the moment.

DF has made a point to ask me multiple times to "hold off for a year" in getting the vaccine. He's very much bought into the idea of a "new world order" and Bill Gate's sinister machinations for the vaccine, and I've known for years now that engaging him in his theories only results in hours lost to debates that go nowhere and convince no-one.

(I'll be taking the vaccine once it becomes available. I work closely with children and the thought of being partially responsible for vulnerable people - a grandparent or immuno-compromised relative, for example - becoming infected makes me sick to my stomach.)

Actually I did have it for the good of society, wasn't concerned about my own personal risk.

I'm 25 and for the same reasons not having it at the moment - not never
just at the moment it doesn't feel right for me :)