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

[Honey12346]

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

For the public good.

For freedom & to reassure nervous friends.
I had covid in march 2020 and was fine after a couple of weeks and have not been scared of getting it again.

Both.

Nope. I had it purely so I can hopefully travel without having to bloody quarantine. I do plenty of stuff for the greater good like not voting fucking Tory, volunteering to help people with benefit claims and advice, school governor, local councillor, campaigning etc.

Just to be able to travel to my home country and see my parents. I haven't had covid as far as I know. I had cold during Xmas but never tested.

I’m NOT having it because I am low risk for Covid (I had it last year and was literally a cold / sore throat for me )

No point having it for ‘freedom’ as it ain’t gonna happen

Now the US are saying those with AZ jabs will be refused entry

for the greater good. Why is that not an option?

@Endofether

No point having it for ‘freedom’ as it ain’t gonna happen

Now the US are saying those with AZ jabs will be refused entry

where are they saying that?

Hope of contributing to ending restrictions. They’ve had a far greater negative impact on my life than the disease itself.

To Travel

Had of it because of work and I wanted it.

For the greater good.

Both although the health reasons extend to protecting my family too.

I do think it’s a bit premature to label promises of ‘freedom’ (whatever that means to you) as false. Vaccines take time and we’ve had a relatively fast programme in this country. I don’t get the hump when I’m the first on a train but it doesn’t immediately leave the station whilst it waits for everyone to get on.

To try to do my bit to get the jab numbers up so my kids could have their lives back again.

Was sold a right fucking lemon on that grounds.

My own health and freedom. From a wider population level, I am more interested in people having their civil liberties back than I am in their health tbh. Each individual is responsible for their own health now that everyone vulnerable has had the opportunity to be vaccinated. Obviously it was different when no one was vaccinated.

My own health - I work in a school so high exposure. I've had Covid once and I don't want to get it again. It was awful.
Greater good - I don't want to pass it on to kids
Freedom - I would like to see my family again (they are all in Canada)

I had the vaccine as I wanted to protect others. I'd already had covid early on and I've never been so ill. Breathing would suddenly feel like drowning and I was exhausted for months afterwards. I wanted to do what I could to prevent others from getting it who may not recover like I eventually did.

@Endofether

No point having it for ‘freedom’ as it ain’t gonna happen

Now the US are saying those with AZ jabs will be refused entry

Reading the FT it sounds like this is something U.K. diplomats have assumed rather than anything the US have said.

From the FT story:

“The status of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in the US further complicates matters. The Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company has not yet applied for authorisation from the US Food and Drug Administration, and when it does so, it is likely to apply for a full legal licence rather than temporary emergency authorisation — a process that could take several months to complete.

US officials have not said whether they intend to treat vaccinated and unvaccinated travellers differently.

But UK diplomats fear that if they do, Britons who have had AstraZeneca’s jab could face tougher restrictions than those who have received US-approved vaccines.

One UK diplomat said: “AstraZeneca is proving a real problem. If the US doesn’t recognise it, it means millions of Brits won’t be eligible to travel if we agree to a new corridor.”

The White House said meetings about a US-UK travel corridor were “active and ongoing”.

The British government spokesperson said the US-UK working group was established “to help relaunch UK-US travel as soon as possible”.

“Discussions between the working group are ongoing to ensure the UK and US closely share thinking and expertise on international travel policy going forward,” added the spokesperson. AstraZeneca declined to comment.”

@Comedycook

I did it for the greater good

I've never been worried about catching covid

Same really

Don’t want to be the one spreading it to other more vulnerable people

To answer the OP, I have not found the promise of freedom to be false - my life has gone pretty back to normal. But I am not in the UK.

I mostly had the vaccine to contribute to the herd immunity that allows an area to reopen after a pandemic.

For freedom!

Same here

And to the OP calling it a false promise of freedom is pathetic

Please do explain any other credible way of dealing with this

Not sure why it is a false promise of freedom, we wouldn't have got to stage 3 of the roadmap without the vaccines, and we certainly wouldn't be looking at lifting any other restrictions without vaccines

For my own health/life and that of my family.

However, I am now really fed up of fully vaccinated people being treated as equally infectious and risky as unvaccinated people. Obviously they are much less likely to be infected and even less likely to be infectious. This is scientific fact.

Track and trace and self-isolation should take account of vaccination status. Maybe fully vaccinated people should just have to take daily LFTs or wear a mask if they have had contact with a positive case.
And I include fully vaccinated school children in this (many sixth formers are fully vaccinated and hopefully by September many over-12s will be too, if the government stops denying them the vaccine already approved for them).