Are you getting the booster if you’re not vulnerable?

[Whathefisgoingon]

Just curious. Are you?

I am able to receive a booster. I am early 30’s with no health conditions that I am aware of.

I feel like the push for the boosters for healthy folk isn’t really there; in fact I am seeing more and more professionals say it’s unnecessary at this stage. Of course, safety is my main concern and much like before the first two, I am feeling somewhat anxious about it.

Nope I won't be getting my booster

When it's offered to me, I will get it.

I do not have a history of reacting to vaccinations and I don't believe the bullshit going round.

Definitely getting booster as soon or if I'm ever deemed eligible! I believe the health risks from having covid are more worrying than any effects of the vaccines or boosters.

Woken up with just a sore arm after my booster yesterday.

Makes me feel that bit safer in a class full of coughing children.

I’ve had the booster. Better safe than sorry and there’s certainly some reports about waning immunity.

Especially with AZ.

I believe the health risks from having covid are more worrying than any effects of the vaccines or boosters.

Some of us don't have the luxury of believing that unfortunately. Since my two AZ jabs in April and June I have developed chronic widespread pain that is ruining my life. I refuse to believe this is a coincidence, especially since I'm not the only one. I stood up to "protect others" and look where it has got me.

I'm tired of reading snide comments on threads like this that insinuate people like me are basically putting others in danger by questioning this campaign of social and moral pressure.

I've never had a positive covid test result. I've also never been as frighteningly ill as I have been this last 5 months. The health service cannot cope with people like me, there is no space for us. If we haven't tested positive, we can't even assume we have/have had long covid. (A condition which itself still isn't in common parlance in my local health service, so I haven't felt confident enough to bring it up. Over a series of appointments I've concluded they're tinkering around the edges of something they can't figure out, while I continue to suffer.)

I'm in group 6 for vaccines. I've had a 'mild' dose of covid over the last week. I don't want it again, it was shit, although not shit in the way that my vulnerability suggests it would have been. My booster was due two days ago and I had an appointment booked for it. I've rebooked for as soon as I can after the 28 days post positive PCR is up.

41. Had booster thanks to my job. 2xAZ's and the Pfizer booster. Was absolutely fine. Have it OP. I'll take any protection offered against Covid, thanks.

@baroqueandblue I'm the same. Some days I wake up and my entire body aches for no reason. Particularly around the lymph nodes. People say 'oh your lymph nodes hurt when fighting infection' but I have no other symptoms of infection! You'd think if I had caught something I'd have a runny nose/headache/sore throat etc but I don't, just widespread pain. It's shit. Obviously they will say that it can't be proven that it's from the vaccine but I know my body and I've never experienced these sensations prior to getting the Pfizer jabs. I'm going to see a Dr about it next week but I don't think I'll get anywhere.

100%. I'm 43 fit and healthy. I have Covid. It is fucking horrible. I have given it to one of my children and we are trying to keep away from the rest of the family so we don't infect them.
Yes you might be lucky and shrug it off like a cold but you might not. Until I had it I was very blasé saying I'm sure I would be fine. It really is nasty.

I have just got over covid, I am double jabbed and had my last jab in may so I presume it could now be waning. Dh also caught covid at the same time. Older teenage dds both stayed clear but they have just had their jabs. I think I had it reasonably mild, no other health issues, but for a couple of days we were both really ill and 10 days later I’m still really tired. I have no idea where I got it from, no obvious close contact. There is no way that I would want to go through this again and certainly not without the protection of a vaccine, I am over 50 so entitled to the booster and I will be having it as soon as safe to do so after recovering from covid.

@baroqueandblue Very sorry to read about your illnesses post-vaccination. It is scandalous that accounts like yours are not being properly investigated. I wish you recovery.

Yes I am.

I am a carer for my child so I qualify. She's autistic, but has no health issues so technically neither of us are vulnerable health wise.

I'm having mine next week.

I’m actually quite cross now that I can’t have the booster.

DH has just had his, because he is 50, despite WFH.

I teach in a room where windows barely open, with classes of 30 who aren’t testing for covid, don’t wear masks and am over 190 days from my second jab. Covid is taking out staff at my school at an alarming rate-if they want schools to have enough adults to remain open, shouldn’t staff boosters be a priority?

I’m under 50 so don’t qualify.

@Howshouldibehave

I’m actually quite cross now that I can’t have the booster.

DH has just had his, because he is 50, despite WFH.

I teach in a room where windows barely open, with classes of 30 who aren’t testing for covid, don’t wear masks and am over 190 days from my second jab. Covid is taking out staff at my school at an alarming rate-if they want schools to have enough adults to remain open, shouldn’t staff boosters be a priority?

I’m under 50 so don’t qualify.

Every bit of this, except DH doesn’t qualify until May

According to Zoe today,

"1 in 5 people with COVID infections won’t get antibodies"

"Our latest analysis of data from the app shows that one in five ZOE Study participants who tested positive for COVID didn’t go on to have detectable anti-N antibodies afterwards. This means that even if you’ve been infected, you won’t necessarily benefit from the up to 65% protection that we found in some people with a previous infection. For the four in five people who do get anti-N antibodies from infection, your protection is boosted to up to 94% following double vaccination."

Eeee my arm is sore. I’m 30hrs post booster Red cheeks and sore skin . Just taken temp and it’s 37.5 so that explains it. Paracetamol on its way!

Yes had mine. And I’m very grateful to science.

Yes I had the booster last week. I've have friends who have had covid and been floored by it. DS had it and neither DH or I got it so I believe vaccination was well worth it.

@Flyonawalk thank you for being supportive.

I'd love to be a poster child for the vaccines but it hasn't worked out that way! As with anything in life, there has to be a 'shadow side' to the vaccination programme and I don't appreciate that certain people won't accept that. (Or don't care.) But they're usually the ones who live in denial about lots of other unpalatable truths about life, so I don't know why I'm surprised. And then of course, because they don't like the fact that the vaccines carry significant risks for some people - currently impossible to quantify how many and why - they bully people morally and politically. Just as long as they, their loved ones and the economy are protected.

The fallacy is that people like me ought to put myself at further risk to protect these people. But who's protecting me from the devastation caused by the vaccine? Such hypocrisy! I went along with it, and now I don't count. I might as well have caught covid and been gravely endangered by it, according to that 'logic'

@Flev

I'm unsure - the first vaccine triggered an interesting set of autoimmune responses, and I'm still having to take large doses of daily folic acid as my folates are still suppressed. I've been doing the ONS covid study for some months now and was asked to do the blood antigen test in our visit this month so I'm waiting for the results from that before I decide. I was off work sick for a month after my first vaccine and am very nervous about that happening again.

@Flev that's really interesting, I had my Moderna booster yesterday but I had low folate for the first time ever, vitamin B9 earlier this year and was given high dose supplements, maybe I should get it rechecked because I only took them for a couple of months and no idea of my levels are back up, permanently exhausted

Yes, already booked ( over 50).

Very grateful for it, especially having teens in school.

@PurpleDaisies

There are huge ethical issue here. Rich countries making their already very safe populations even safer while poor countries get nothing.

I am absolutely not against booster/third primary dose programmes for people particularly vulnerable to Covid but the vaccine inequity across the globe makes me really sick.

The U.K. is currently pretty much the worst in the whole world for case numbers and is still encountering high numbers of deaths.

Are you suggesting that we should be giving our vaccines away to countries with lower case rates than us? I’m not being goady - I’m genuinely curious.