25-29 year olds - why so keen for jabs

[Confusedaboutlots]

I will start this by saying I’m an avid pro-vaxxer and I was ecstatic to hear that 1 million 25-29 year olds booked in for their jabs on the first day they could (more than on any other day). Today there was a huge queue for vaccinations at a pop up clinic in Sheffield - most people waiting seemed in their 20s. People were saying they were very excited and couldn’t wait for the vaccine.

But I am also very surprised they did. I was expecting healthy 25 year olds to be more relaxed about covid purely based on morbidity/hospitalisation stats - and they are presumably one of the age groups already socialising a lot. Also there’s no talk yet of vaccine passports or vaccines being needed for domestic events.

I’m mid 30s and have generally been more concerned about covid from a personal perspective than my close friends and so I was very grateful and excited for the jab - many of my friends less so as they feel it’s a duty.

Please could someone let me know why they think 25-29 year olds were so keen on being vaccinated - keener than other age groups it seems. I like to think it’s because of altruistic reasons - that would be very heartwarming

thanks

Because for the last 15 month they have been told to 'protect' their granny, so they are doing every thing they can to continue to do that.

And yes it is so they can get back to a normal life.

My son is at Uni. He had his first yesterday. A couple of his flat mates had theirs a few weeks ago (health issues making them eligible as vulnerable). All the others have booked in over the next couple of weeks. They've all had a miserable uni experience being stuck in their tiny bedrooms whilst most staff havn't been on campus all year. They (and their friends at Uni) see getting vaccinated in large numbers as the only way to get staff back on campus and a return to proper face to face teaching sessions. They're fed up of everything being online (not just lectures but even support services such as mental health are remote "due to covid"). The young want this over with so they can get back to normal. It's not so much for their own health, but they know that the more people who are vaccinated, the less excuses for others not getting back to normal.

Please could someone let me know why they think 25-29 year olds were so keen on being vaccinated - keener than other age groups it seems. I like to think it’s because of altruistic reasons - that would be very heartwarming

I think there is a degree of altruism for a lot of them. My children and their friends are in this age group. They are very keen to get vaccinated so they can move on with their lives, but also because they understand that it's for the benefit of wider society. I've seen this attitude replicated in local Facebook groups too.

know the media have presented us an image of the under-30s as hedonistic, and out partying while the pandemic rages, but the truth is most do care about other people.

My son is in his 20's and had his yesterday. He's been trying hard to book for a week now.

One of his friends who is in a London university had covid six months ago. His degree will be written off for now. He has long covid and severe brain fog, he can't even read. So studying is now impossible. It's so sad, he was fit and well, early 20's and so clever. It's been snatched away.

This might be less common, and the younger ones aren't dying, but covid can still wrecks organs and destroy health. This doesn't seem to be reported as much as the deaths. The horrible life changing consequences for many.

The young are not unaffected and I think of course they want the vaccine, they would be ill informed not to choose this. I don't know of any 20 somethings that are not very keen to be vaccinated.

Another factor among Uni students is that they dont want the misery of having to keep self isolating in their tiny Uni accommodation. Some unis banned isolating students from leaving their flats - not even allowing them out for exercise/fresh air for 2 weeks. It was inhumane.

I also think that if they had held walk-in sessions for other age groups from the start there would have queues.

I’d have turned up and queued for mine.

thanks to those who have given considered replies

just found the below article from a quick google search - amidst many others behind paywalls. just an example of how these various studies have got it wrong - thank goodness

www.itv.com/news/2021-03-08/adults-aged-16-29-group-most-likely-to-report-covid-vaccine-hesitancy

I want the jab because I'm a new mum and I have a baby to take care of. My sister got it and had to care for a toddler, she said it was a nightmare.

Getting a jab reducing the symptoms so I can care for my baby is a plus.

Because they want to go on holiday abroad and get their lives back as it has been utter pants for them since this began. Working in their bedrooms not able to socialise meet partners or actually live

I’m 28 and pregnant but due any day now. I’ve booked mine for the end of the month. I want to get back to normal and am of the belief that we need as many people who can get the vaccine to do so. I am also wary of catching COVID and of the effects of long COVID.

I'm 29 and got the jab as soon as I could.

Firstly, life needs to get back to normal and soon.

Secondly, I will always do things to help others and I think a lot of people in my age group would.

Because their lives have been made so miserable and the additional costs to travel again are so high they have little choice ie. bullying

People are being hounded to have it. It's absolutely relentless so I'm not surprised they're turning up in droves.

My children are in their late 20s and both are booked in now for both jabs. We are all absolutely delighted. My husband and I and my very elderly parents are already double jabbed but our children are the ones using public transport several times a week and mixing with others at work. We need to get to the point where the virus isn't being transmitted, and that can only happen once most of the population are immune to it.

Most people can see that even though their own risk of getting it and being very ill is low, they still need to be vaccinated if there's no medical reason not so that we all get protection and can get back to some sort of normality after this extraordinary time. Plus, of course, some unlucky people would be very ill/could end up with Long Covid, and why take that risk if you can do something to avoid it?

My DS 24 cannot wait to be called. For him he is concerned that he’s working with and dealing with people in close quarters who could pass the virus onto him and then he brings it home to his much younger sister.

I'm 28 and had both jabs. I got called up in Feb.

Why? Because believe it or not we'd like things to go back to normal too. Or would you like us to be locked up again to keep the elderly safe?

People want to see family, friends. Believe it or not.

Because they are scared abs fearful of catching covid even though it’s highly likely they would be fine and the people who would suffer are vaccinated
It’s not until you are over 55 the risk of covid is higher than the risk of dying from anything else but everyone has lost all perspective

It was also announced quite widely in advance so more people would have known to book on the first day. When booking opened up for my age group, 38-39, it came as a surprise as I remember speaking about it with someone in the morning saying I felt like my turn would never come and then the same evening I had managed to book, after reading it was now open on here.

Older age groups were also more likely to wait for a letter to feel they had been invited before booking. My letter took about 8 days to arrive.

That age group is remarkably socially minded, by and large. Lots of polling shows strong percentages with liberal/proactive attitudes to social issues, far more interest in combatting climate change etc.

It doesn’t shock me that they’d take up the vaccine, and suspect that for many more than you think, they will be doing it with a strong sense of “the greater good”.

Certainly it’s what I’m hearing/seeing with younger colleagues and their friendship groups when we’ve talked about it.

@Nerdygirl

Because they are scared abs fearful of catching covid even though it’s highly likely they would be fine and the people who would suffer are vaccinated It’s not until you are over 55 the risk of covid is higher than the risk of dying from anything else but everyone has lost all perspective

Yep fabulous scare mongering of a year + Can’t wait to see all the morons queuing up to get their toddlers vaccinated soon

My 20’s son has worked virtually the whole way through, and thinks that the people who continued to work should have had the jab sooner. He’s been dealing with the public the whole time.

Be asked they work in public facing jobs like hospitality.

Because if they get long Covid it could fuck their best years right up - whereas if I as an old fart get it, I've already had 50 years of spry health

Because like the rest of us want to do the right thing.

Because they want to hug their family without worrying they are transmitting covid.

I'm in that age group and was ecstatic when it finally opened up.

Regardless of the medical data that covid is generally less problematic for younger individuals, it still can be. I would rather have the vaccine than the horrific effects covid could bring.

My daughter is 1 year old. I am not taking a gamble that just because I am younger that I will not get a bad case of covid. I will do anything to not be part of that unfortunate, albeit small, statistic.

I am fully aware of how someone can fall within the small statistic without any prior warning, as that is what happened to my daughter at birth.

@PixieDust28 why would anyone want to risk being locked up again?!

simply wondering how the ONS and other studies got it so wrong...

nothing more to my question than that....

Because they just want it over, . Young people are generally more impacted than many, in terms of both jobs and social life. The Indian variant has given an added impetus, if one was needed.