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

My children weren’t excited or desperate

They were offered an appointment and they took it

I’m in the 25-29 category. I got mine a while ago because I work in healthcare, but my partner and most of my friends are getting it now.

Most of them have older parents and elderly grandparents, and protecting them further is the main motivator. Also, some are thinking about starting a family and COVID can be dangerous in pregnancy, so that is a reason for a few. Another reason is trying to get back to a normal life, and the more people vaccinated, the more likely this is.

I don't believe it's peer pressure or social media at all. Maybe those suggesting it don't actually have or know many young people in these age categories 🤷‍♀️

Dd wanted hers for a range of reasons and saw the drop in as a good opportunity to get it sorted sooner rather than later. She had a free weekend so used the weekend do]]to do just that.

She doesn't really watch the news or follow the government on social media, so there was no pressure from there. She doesn't really talk to friends about the jabs from what I know.

She's always been keen to get it. She looked at joining the trials. saw me being quite ill with cv with a relatively long recovery and would prefer to avoid the virus herself. As far as we know she hasn't had it. She has festivals booked and club nights, all at risk of being cancelled right now. We have a trip to the us planned for later in the tear - they already have different rules for fully vaccinated people.

Oh and she hasn't posted in social media that she had the vaccine. Her friends did share the drop in details with one another in a group chat and 3 mentioned they were there.

Because we are all sick of this and want normal life to resume. That means as many people getting vaccinated as possible.

I am young, fit and healthy, but I feel it's a civic duty to get vaccinated.

Funfortheroad - any idea why children are given the annual flu vaccine?

My 24 year old son is still waiting for his, he'll have it done as soon as it's offered. I think he just sees it as the sensible thing to do.
I believe uptake has been higher than predicted in all age groups in the UK, OP.

Perhaps the ones that were excited went out to get their jabs and the ones that were not stayed at home?

The ones who are statistically less likely to have jobs where they were able to work from home, you mean?

All of this, 100%. There's no real logical reason for a healthy young person to be desperate to have this jab. Same as there's absolutely no justification for giving it to kids - but they'll attempt to sell a narrative that makes it happen, so kids can be human shields for the very frail and those who refuse to vaccinate for their own good.

Most people have already received vaccines that benefit other people more than them.

Most people have already received vaccines that benefit other people more than them such as? My child’s vaccines protect them!

I think for travel abroad.

@MintyMabel

Let’s be honest, young people have sacrificed the most

Let’s be honest, the people who have died sacrificed the most.

The older generation have struggled to be away from family, isolated in the later years of their life, missing their grandchildren growing up, not being able to meet new family members.

Those next down have had to juggle WFH and home schooling kids, trying to care for their elderly parents, worrying about their health and how to support them, many have lost their jobs. They have been working at the sharp end of the NHS, seeing the worst effects of how this pandemic is affecting people.

School aged kids have struggled to adapt to do online schooling, seen exam results impacting on their life choices. Younger school kids have lost out on many formative experiences.

Disabled and vulnerable people have been further isolated, not been able to get the care services they need, been unable to get out and about for their health.

Everyone has sacrificed things this year, and their lives have been impacted in so many different ways it is impossible to single out one generational group and say they have been hit worse than any other.

I completely agree. There is not a single sector of society that has been unaffected by this.

@OnlyFoolsnMothers

Most people have already received vaccines that benefit other people more than them such as? My child’s vaccines protect them!

If your child is old enough to be at primary school and to have it,, the 'flu vaccination.

Also the Rubella part of MMR, if your child is male - the primary danger is to the unborn children of pregnant women.

The flu vaccine is offered and I haven’t/ wouldn’t give it to my child. As for rubella, it could affect THEIR unborn children in THEIR wombs when older- again all them and theirs. My child isn’t being vaccinated for anyone else’s greater good.

@OnlyFoolsnMothers

The flu vaccine is offered and I haven’t/ wouldn’t give it to my child. As for rubella, it could affect THEIR unborn children in THEIR wombs when older- again all them and theirs. My child isn’t being vaccinated for anyone else’s greater good.

That may be the case, but at a population level, children are vaccinated against flu and rubella for the benefit not only of themselves, but also of others.

For the 'flu vaccinations (nasal spray) given in school, our experience is that we have a vanishingly small refusal rate, which supports the PP's assertion that most people have already received vaccinations that benefit others.

If your child was male, would you have refused the MMR and given just Measles and Mumps as single vaccinations? Again the fact that most people (male and female) have had MMR shows that the male half of the population has received a vaccination of little benefit to themselves.

….fact is things are coming to light about these vaccines, side effects no one knew at the time or weren’t told- now of course tor those at greater risk of covid it’s 1000% worth taking, for those adults less at risk we can choose to take for the greater good- children don’t owe adults anything and the risk is one I don’t believe any decent parent (who doesn’t have vulnerable people in their family) should take. Just my opinion

Decent parent?

Nice…

There must have been a better less judgy way of phrasing that

Well thankfully, everyone I know thinks the complete opposite @OnlyFoolsnMothers .. mostly as nearly all the children I know have beloved grandparents over the age of 65 & thus vulnerable.

Why would you not give your child the flu vaccine? It’s been around for years & years. My DD has asthma & I’ve seen extremely sick children in hospital with flu on our numerous admissions. It’s nasty if they catch proper flu. Sure, the vaccine is 40-60% effective but better than nothing. & again, it’s offers protection to others. Particularly grandparents..

But hey ho. Let us not think about others. Thankfully enough of us do for your choice not to matter.

& I and all my friends & family are thoroughly decent parents.

any decent parent (who doesn’t have vulnerable people in their family) should take

Surely it is really quite rare for anyone to be so isolated in a nuclear family of just parent and child that they do NOT have vulnerable people in their family?

To have an entire family and social network in which nobody is 60+, and nobody has any form of vulnerability (including being overweight), seems really quite unusual to me?

@Bobholll

Well thankfully, everyone I know thinks the complete opposite *@OnlyFoolsnMothers* .. mostly as nearly all the children I know have beloved grandparents over the age of 65 & thus vulnerable.

Why would you not give your child the flu vaccine? It’s been around for years & years. My DD has asthma & I’ve seen extremely sick children in hospital with flu on our numerous admissions. It’s nasty if they catch proper flu. Sure, the vaccine is 40-60% effective but better than nothing. & again, it’s offers protection to others. Particularly grandparents..

But hey ho. Let us not think about others. Thankfully enough of us do for your choice not to matter.

Re flu- like you said YOUR child has asthma, I completely get why they have the flu “vaccine”, I would do the same should my child be asthmatic, however I do believe we need some natural resistance to things that are standard illnesses.

Re: corona, The flip flopping on AstraZeneca on under 40s (which a friend of mine died from a stroke after having it), the flip flopping on vaccinating pregnant women, the odd side effects no one was told about (delayed periods, jaw ache 10 days after Pfizer)- I think it’s terrifying the sheep amongst the population are so blasé about their developing children being injected so freely.
Like I said do what you like to me- not my children

So you would not have given a male child of yours the MMR?

@cantkeepawayforever

any decent parent (who doesn’t have vulnerable people in their family) should take

Surely it is really quite rare for anyone to be so isolated in a nuclear family of just parent and child that they do NOT have vulnerable people in their family?

To have an entire family and social network in which nobody is 60+, and nobody has any form of vulnerability (including being overweight), seems really quite unusual to me?

I have one elderly aunt - double vaccinated that I see every few months- my husbands mum had corona in Italy and survived- no other elderly people in my family- near on all the adults vaccinated - at this point if one of us dies due to covid it is what it is.

Because they want to get on with life, because they want to make sure they, and others don’t catch it

It’s not rocket science

"and the risk is one I don’t believe any decent parent"

As soon as I see phrases like "decent parent" in vaccine discussions, I know I am seeing someone who has no decent argument to make and the only thing they can do is insult people