Are you really prepared to take every single vaccine

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It worries me that we may have to keep having vaccines going forward. I’m due my booster which I will take but I’m hearing that AZ are in the process of tweaking the current vaccine to combat the new strain. So we are then required to take another booster. Many variants can crop up, suppose another one does very soon. I’m concerned about the number of vaccines we could be taking. Is anyone else? And no I’m not an anti vaxer.

Yes I will. I already have a yearly flu jab, so will have as many covid ones as necessary.

[quote Lillith111]@nc180 how do you know covid poses no risk to kids??? For all you know in 10 years covid might cause major issues in kids. Why do you think the vaccine is going to have more long term health risk than a virus when virus have lots of evidence to cause long term health issues. Getting covid could cause your kids major health issues. Why don't you worry about the long term effect of that?[/quote]
The data tells us children are at very low risk of CATCHING covid compared to the rest of the population.
Yes, covid MIGHT cause long term harm, sure and so MIGHT vaccinating a healthy and developing immune system against it. My point is, we are vaccinating children out of fear of what might happen to them if they get covid without weighing up the cost/benefit of the vaccine itself to their health.

And @NC180 here www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/fully-vaccinated-people.html

There's also a new scientist article that explains it very well

Yup

Everyone should be able to decide for themselves what feels right for their health
What feels right for my health is everyone getting vaccinated. But I don't just think abut myself, and I am sure that you too care about the people around you, and don't just think about your own health. You make decisions based on how you might affect other people. You respect the speed limit, not just because you don't want an accident, but because you don't want to run someone over by reducing your stopping distance.

Why should healthy people get vaccinated when they have a low risk from Covid? Because they care about the other people around them who are not as lucky. Because they would feel terrible if they unintentionally passed it on to someone who died, when getting vaccinated might have even a teeny, tiny chance of preventing that.

@NC180. We have weighed up the cost benefit. Scientists are good at their jobs. They came to the conclusion it's better to get the vaccine. This thread is acc about kids you've just made it about kids but at schools loads of kids have caught it and they're are kids suffering with long covid. there's already evidence covid can hurt kids

Not at all worried.
I'm sure the people developing vaccines have done better than my grade 4 chemistry cse so I'll defer to them.

@Nancydrawn your post doesn't support your facts and it isn't a research paper...

The data you present says unvaccinated people are at a 5.8X risk of TESTING POSITIVE for covid. You said they are at a 5.8X risk of CATCHING covid. This isn't the same thing. How do we know that unvaccinated people aren't at increased risk of testing positive simply because more unvaccinated people are taking covid tests?

I agree with you that unvaccinated vulnerable people are at a higher risk of dying and the data supports this. But it doesn't support it in healthy people. Healthy people have rarely died all along.

@FindingMeno

Not at all worried. I'm sure the people developing vaccines have done better than my grade 4 chemistry cse so I'll defer to them.

😂 you did better than me at chemistry 😂

@Lillith111there have literally been no cost/benefit analysis conducted for children. None. This is what people are so up in arms about.

@ddl1

Just like the Flu, it will be something we learn to live with.

Many of us live with the flu precisely by taking annual vaccinations!

I’ve never had a flu vaccination in my life. Last time I had flu was seventeen years ago. Why have we suddenly all become so scared of flu?

I have an annual flu vaccine anyway, so if the covid one ends up being an annual one in the same way I'm happy to take that.

For now, until it settles more, I'm happy to take the boosters as they come.

I'm CV and covid last year resulted in side effects which put me in hospital and on life long medication. I really would rather avoid it, or at least reduce the risk of being quite so poorly again, if I can.

I get a different flu vaccine every year. Its free, only takes seconds, side effects are very minor temporary discomfort. Well worth it to protect my health.

I'll continue to get covid vaccinations. Three so far, free, only takes seconds, side effects are very minor temporary discomfort. Well worth it to protect my health.

Just a couple of years ago I got vaccinated against pneumonia and shingles (both are offered to older people). My tetanus cover probably needs updating. They're all free, take seconds, side effects are very minor /temporary discomfort. Well worth it to protect my health.

I plan to carry on protecting my health and boosting my immune system any way I can.

[quote NC180]@Lillith111there have literally been no cost/benefit analysis conducted for children. None. This is what people are so up in arms about.[/quote]
This is not true.

@Cornettoninja

Yup. If I’m offered it, I’ll take it.

Vaccines are a wonderful advancement in preventative medicine and I fully intend to take advantage of living in an era we have the knowledge to make use of them.

I’m not a believer in medicine for medicines sake but vaccines are as sensible to me as putting on a seat belt or washing my hands.

Same here!

@ravenmum prove it. Show me a properly conducted research study that is a cost/benefit analysis of vaccinating children against letting them contract covid....

@Valhalla17

Those that say " well I take the flu jab every year"....I assume that's because you're vulnerable or have an underlying condition that requires it...and I expect the same for Covid vaccines and boosters. Every single man, woman and child does not require this. Its beyond ridiculous.

I'm CV but dh and Dd are not.

We pay for a flu vaccine each year for 19y Dd and have done for the last few years. She got a nasty dose of flu mid mock exams one year so she prefers to have the vaccine to avoid such disruption and illness again - her choice.

Dh can get a free flu jab via work - the firm pays for it. He has one as he'd rather avoid having flu and having to be off work ill.

Also both dh and Dd know that them having the flu jab reduces the risk to me too.

[quote NC180]@ravenmum prove it. Show me a properly conducted research study that is a cost/benefit analysis of vaccinating children against letting them contract covid....[/quote]
www.who.int/news/item/24-11-2021-interim-statement-on-covid-19-vaccination-for-children-and-adolescents

@TheElvishQueen most of us aren't. Just as many of us aren't scared of covid.

BlueFlavour

What’s a covid cultist when it’s at home?

Just another insulting phrase for anyone who takes COVID seriously I reckon.
Like Lockdown Lover or hysterical mask enthusiasts.

@ravenmum this is not a funded cost/benefit analysis. This is a news article. Look up what a cost/benefit analysis is, and then try and find one. You wont!

But let’s just say we didn’t have the vaccine. What would have happened?
Surely people couldn’t be locked down or have restrictions forever?
How long would furlough have happened for?
Millions of people would have ended up unemployed, possibly forever?
Yes the NHS would have been protected, but surely it would have gone bust because people wouldn’t be paying enough tax to pay for it?
Also surely the country would have gone bankrupt at some point,had we have stayed in lockdown?
I can’t see how we could have stayed locked down , in the instance of not having a vaccine.

@Hearwego we also don't know if there would have been any difference if only the people at risk of taking up a hospital bed were vaccinated...

“The data tells us children are at very low risk of CATCHING covid compared to the rest of the population.”

What data shows this and why are children the most affected age group and have been for weeks then?

Yes.