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.

Laughing that anyone thinks it will be optional. The unboosted will be treated exactly the same as the unvaccinated soon. So you may remain unboosted until you want a holiday, or go to the cinema, or a gig etc. It will be compulsory. It disturbs me. I was very very ill from 2nd jab, much worse than when I caught covid, yet I'm sure I will be forced to take another jab that may make me that ill again. Dreading it.

@Callcat

Laughing that anyone thinks it will be optional. The unboosted will be treated exactly the same as the unvaccinated soon. So you may remain unboosted until you want a holiday, or go to the cinema, or a gig etc. It will be compulsory. It disturbs me. I was very very ill from 2nd jab, much worse than when I caught covid, yet I'm sure I will be forced to take another jab that may make me that ill again. Dreading it.

That’s not compulsory, that’s consequences of a decision, which you are free to make.

Am late 40’s so won’t be offered a booster but would definitely take it if offered. Why wouldn’t I - extra protection is always good to have

I had my booster yesterday. I've no real idea why they consider me vulnerable but I want to be fully protected so I had it. I can't see how it helps to refuse it?

Why wouldn’t I

I can't see how it helps to refuse it?

Not everyone has had the same positive experience of the vaccine as you. These throwaway rhetorical questions are unnerving to people like me (if you bother to read the full thread). But like I said, we're expected to care about you and yours, and it doesn't go both ways, which I find a bit chilling

Yeah, I’ve been offered it. I’m 27 and coeliac so I guess they consider that to make me vulnerable. I’ve booked mine.

Is it actually a genuine 'vaccine' if we have to keep having it? I'm not against it and I've had my jabs but aren't vaccines meant to give you lifelong immunity..?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59362522

Good news for those of us in our 40’s.

Yes I've never heard of a vaccine like this before, that you have to keep taking every six months. Flu vaccine is every year but that is because the flu virus keeps mutating, so the vaccine is different each year. These covids and boosters are exactly the same, or just a half dose in the case of Moderna, so not accounting for any mutations.
I'm not going to have a booster unless it becomes compulsory, and then it will be done under duress.

@user1471443411 do you have children? There are a few routine immunisation that are 2 dose and 3 dose.

Who has said the covid vaccines will be 6 monthly? Nobody is the answer.

I booked my booster for January at the weekend. I did it on the website but I'm hoping to get called by my GP as I'm not happy with the locations through the website. I can have it from 20th December but I've decided to wait as I don't want to risk side effects over Christmas

@anne2650

Is it actually a genuine 'vaccine' if we have to keep having it? I'm not against it and I've had my jabs but aren't vaccines meant to give you lifelong immunity..?

Yes it is. A flu vaccine doesn’t give you life long immunity. A tetanus vaccine doesn’t give you lifelong immunity.