Be honest, did you have the vaxx for your health or for the (false) promise of freedom?

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I've seen one poster say this and I'm curious what other people will answer

Had it only to travel.

I wouldn't have had it if I had based it on my health as I am low risk and also never caught it when I was in the same house, sharing the same space/bed as symptomatic DH.

Freedom.

Honestly yes, I was only motivated by the potential of more freedom and hope of things returning to normal more quickly. I don't care about wider society right now.

Maybe I will start to care about wider society when I feel like I'm living in wider society again. With my social life so reduced by resteictions and everyone being masked half the time life feels rather like playing a computer game with NPCs and I just feel indifferent to the people around me.

My health as was so fricking I'll with covid last year
Others health as would do anything to reduce others going through it
Everyone's freedom. Like fuck would they be letting us out in July with the vaccination programme. We would be lockdown again

My health. I’m not bothered about holidays abroad, crowded concerts or sports events etc, so it wasn’t so I could do those things.
I’m 50, don’t want Covid if at all possible and wouldn’t want to pass it to older or vulnerable family members. If I did get it I would want to have done all I could to lessen the impact on me or other people (family and strangers).

For my health. I don't want covid, I don't want long covid, I don't want to give it to my family, including my kids, I don't want to give it to my colleagues at work, the person in the airport should I ever have to travel again for work (I hope not).

I'm unlikely to be very ill with it. I'm unlikely to get long covid. I'm even more unlikely to have a reaction to the vaccine. And I hope to be offered boosters against variants

Travel freedoms only, i ve never thought CV would pose a big health risk

Worked out well that didn;t it! :(.

Both, main driver was that my family live abroad and I hoped that this would mean I could visit them sooner. Now thanks to the idiot Johnson variant that's looking unlikely

Health.

Freedom and to make other people feel better. Even though I can still get covid and still give to them, at least they feel better eh

Both. We are lucky to have vaccines that are clearly working. Its a no brainer.

For myself. I don't want to get ill. Simple as that for me.

I got the vaccine to protect me! If I got Covid I'm certain I would end up in big trouble. I know now (double vaccinated) if I do get it, that I won't get serious illness. The vaccine will never stop the spread, I can still get it and pass it on. Vaccines protect the person from serious illness and death. I have no plans to travel anywhere this year so it's completely selfish of me but I don't want to die. If it helps the country it's a bonus.

Probably more leaving for the freedom it brings and to protect the vulnerable etc.

I mean I’m happy to be protected myself. I hate getting ill. But I was never particularly worried I’d die or get seriously ill.

Both. Mostly because we need a huge percentage of the population vaccinated to get this thing under control. I need to be able to restart my business, and my life.

The promise of freedom. I'd probably be fine with covid, but I want life to go back to normal so I had both.

To reduce the chance of passing it on to my elderly relatives (and other vulnerable people in my neighbourhood).
To reduce the chances of getting it myself - as a healthy fifty year old my chances of death are negligible, but it could easily wipe me out for a couple of weeks.
And leading on from that, to make me feel more free going about my everyday life. Before the vaccine jumping on a crowded tube to go to the office/a museum/the West End shops felt like going to a restaurant where they had regular food poisoning outbreaks, you’re always worrying “am I going to regret this?” especially now rates are so high that there’s a good chance that someone in your carriage really does have it. Double vaccination has given me my city back.

And yes, not having to do umpteen PCR tests in order to go abroad next year is a motivator. I wasn’t planning on it this summer which is just as well, because Delta hitting the UK before Europe has been a disaster for that. But that’s a strictly temporary issue: by August I suspect the boot will be on the other foot in terms of case numbers.

For my health.

For my health and to a greater degree dhs health.

Entirely for my health and for DH's. I am healthy and slim ( ish), but then I know healthy and slim-ish people ( in my home country) who have died or been very ill. I am in London and take the Tube as well.

Freedom as I’d already had Covid.

I won’t get fooled again if it isn’t forthcoming.

What's all this stuff about "false promises"? The dates in the roadmap were always a "not before", and surely we all knew that there would need to be flexibility around restrictions on travel (whether imposed by our government, other countries' governments, or organisations) depending on when and where variants occur. Surely people didn't think that the moment they personally got a vaccine, everything would be back to normal?

Freedom, and to do my part in preventing the spread to others.

Certainly wasn't for my health, I and DH/baby DC have all already had COVID and made it through fine. I'm not concerned about the idea of catching it again. I had the vaccine for other reasons.

Health, mine and others around me.

I know too many otherwise healthy people who are suffering with long covid and other complications.
Apart from going on holiday, I can do pretty much everything else I want.

Neither. I had it because that's what one does.