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.

Yep. Same as yearly flu jab and any travel vaccines I’ve had so far.

@TulipsGarden

Yes please, I'll happily have whatever jabs are offered. I've had the flu jab every year since becoming a parent as the thought of getting flu with an infant is hideous. Why not Covid as well? And if it needs to be every six months rather than every year, so be it.

I do think we'll get more effective vaccines eventually, but for now let's just be grateful we have what we have.

Yes... I had flu when I had a small exclusively breastfed baby and two toddlers.

DH took a week off work to look after them. I lay in bed, coughed, hallucinated, shivered, etc.

Every so often someone lay the baby beside me and he fed, then they took him away again.

I was a perfectly healthy 36 year old with no pre-existing conditions.

Hospitalised with flu? Honestly?

You really do live in a tiny uninformed bubble huh?

Do you not get all your other boosters every so often ?

Yes of course. I am lucky enough to live in a country where I am given free vaccines in a timely fashion to minimise the risk of me dying or becoming severely ill from a number of diseases. Why would I turn that down?

@Liekje

Do you not get all your other boosters every so often ?

What other boosters?

If there were not so many antivaxers then it would either
be beaten
or
have a much slower rate of variants.

Personally not worried about boosters apart from the tin foil hat club making matters worse and not seeing their part in it.

Absolutely not. The first one gave me a stroke & I haven’t been able to leave the house for much this year. The top consultants and specialists know it’s not needed… and it’s certainly not needed for our children, unless they ha e a compromised immune system.
I’ve met many people who have suffered strokes and heart attacks since I’ve been on this slippery slope & I’m now wondering what this is really all about.
I was a fit, active person - who is having to rebuild everything. This is happening, but we’re not allowed to speak out - and we can’t get compensation or claim on health insurance because we knew the risks (I wasn’t informed before) and the companies are protected.

I’ll have them all!! I lost my dad to covid so I’ll have as many as it takes to try and rid us of this awful virus

@TheElvishQueen if you're immunocompromised being hospitalised with flu is a very real worry. Before covid, if I had any flu-like symptoms, however mild or vague, I had to phone the hospital to be assessed. When you're immunocompromised flu can be very dangerous indeed.

Just has my third, and starting to feel like a pin cushion

In the last few weeks I've had a pneumovax vaccination (which I have every five years) and a flu jab. This week I'll be having my booster. And every Sunday I inject myself with a low dose chemotherapy drug for my autoimmune condition. Now that's a pincushion!

@MrsPetty

I haven’t had any vaccine yet. I’m not an anti vaxxer. I just haven’t felt comfortable with it as yet. I’ve had Covid twice now. So have my children and my mother. We all recovered without any obvious side effects. I’m sure at some point I will have the vaccine as much for convenience as anything else but I’m the thalidomide generation and I have reservations. The idea of a booster every time a new strain is discovered is a bit off putting though …..

But you know Thalidomide wasn't a vaccine right? It was an anti sickness medication given to pregnant ladies. Not really relevant?

It's not so much taking extra vaccines & boosters, it's the possibility of having to prove your vaccination status to travel, or even in some countries to enter restaurants & events. Basically, we're being forced to have these treatments in order to have any sort of life.

@CherryBlossomAutumn

There is a real flaw though *@LobsterNapkin* in that you are perpetuating a belief that ‘natural’ is better, when that isn’t true. As humans, before medicine, before plastic or industry we would frequently be carried off early by disease, cancer and complications of infections. It was a lot rougher being a Neanderthal and we’d die earlier.

That doesn’t mean that there isn’t zero risk from medicine. It isn’t perfect. But it’s a LOT better than the alternative. And it’s true with Covid.

Yes I’d much rather not have a vaccine. But I really, really don’t want to chance it with Covid either. Covid is far riskier than the vaccine - that is just a good weighing up of risk. I too got a bad reaction, twice, made me nervous (I’m the nervous type and would gladly have my house free of any toxic stuff etc). But at the end of the day we roll a dice, and one has a very high chance of something bad (Covid) and the other dice has a very, very low chance.

It what about all the people who have tested positive & been absolutely fine? What about all of us who have had reactions but are ignored by the media. People who have lost people due to vaccine damage are being silenced & posts are being deleted. Charlotte Wright is an amazing mum, but nobody wants to give her air time after kissing her husband. Years ago, washing habits were appalling - even worse than in hospital now. Polio effected under 5’s & was largely spread via poo - they didn’t wash often in the old days. A shared bath once a week was considered “clean”. Simply washing with soap isn’t hard isn’t hard these days, but still people who walking around looking unwashed. Still people leave the toilets without washing their hands. I’ve paid a lot in taxes & I'm sick of it being spent on drugs and jabs. People need to educate themselves on being healthier because good health certainly doesn’t come from drugs or jabs.

You realise thousands die of flu every year right?!

I’ll do it once a year but not more than that.

@TheVampiresWife yep same. GCSF weekly injections, Xolair monthly, 3 covid jabs, pneumonia and flu

I am considering to wait for them to fix the vaccine for the new variant before I take my booster. But I will see how things progress. I don't take the flu vaccine either. Maybe when I am older but I think my imune system can cope with the flu for the time being.

@Mrsjayy

I have the flu vaccine every year so 2hy not ??

I agree, I happily have the flu vaccine so this is no different other than currently it looks like it will be twice a year but I'm assuming at one point they will make it once a year.

Definitely not

The short answer to your question is yes. I don't fancy dying prematurely of Covid.....

@vickylou78

You realise thousands die of flu every year right?!

My comment was to the poster who seemed surprised at people needing to be hospitalised with the flu.

@Mrsjayy

I have the flu vaccine every year so 2hy not ??

Exactly this ^

People banging on about it being the same as the flu jab once a year. With booster, that's three in one year. No other vaccine requires that.

@MaddieElla

Actually hepatitis is 3. Had to do it before I went travelling.

Also rabies is 3.

And I’ve had FIVE MMR shots in the course of my life. The Rubella immunity always wears off.

So.... yeah.

Hep and rabies are three for the initial course, so a matter of weeks.