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.

I'm swallowing and jabbing enough crap into me. I don't want anything else added to it.

Nope I won't be having any more not getting booster and certainly not get any other vacs again. If they bring out a single vaccine that is given just once a year like flu jab then I will reconsider but untill then am done.
Am not a bloody pin cushion.

I've no particular objection in principle. I do have flu jabs annually.

Yes

I'm not at all concerned about taking any booster I am invited to have.

But then again, I am extremely grateful for modern medicine and science.

#kept alive by modern medicine since 1964

@Viviennemary

I had the booster and had a horrific headache and was extremely tired and very very sore arm. The way I feel at the moment is no more vaccines for me.

You'd probably feel worse for longer with covid.

I'm not sure I will tbh. No anti vax, biology grad. Just dont really want to do this every six months. I had bad side effects from the AZ first jab.

In normal times I only have my flu jab every two years. I have had covid and it was extremely mild so that also personally for me means I'm not adverse to trying natural immunity

Nope. I am done. Had covid, had 2 jabs. I am fit and healthy.

Don't need to do anything more. I am of no risk to anyone or the health service.

I don't take medicines I don't need.

Will those who don't want to keep having boosters take extra precautions with masks/distancing etc?

So we know that after 6 months current vaccinations wane. Hence the booster

If they do another one for another strong variant such as Delta( so if omnicron takes off) then yes I will take it
I believe that moving forward we will annual annual covid jabs the same as we get annual flu jabs

Yes.
I have a flu jab every year and I'm not getting any younger.

Although, if someone is prepared to do my job, look after my dc's, me and the house then maybe I'll chill a bit about getting ill.

@bizboz

Will those who don't want to keep having boosters take extra precautions with masks/distancing etc?

I will test if I have symptoms or am going to a big event.

And obviously isolate if it is positive. But that's it.

Absolutely - yearly just like my flu vaccine.

I've had covid, it was horrendous. Ice just recovered months later! Any vaccine is better than that.

I can't quite get my head around the logic of the pp who won't have any more vaccines because the booster gave her a headache and made her tired

A small price to pay surely?

vaccines have transformed our world - to the point too many people in the UK really don't have a bloody clue about what life would be without them. I am old enough to have grown up around kids who's lives were devastated by illnesses which are now under control.

Sense - the charity for kids who are deaf/blind was founded 60yrs ago by two mums who had contracted rubella while pregnant. Measles encephalitis was a known and worrying side effect. I was at Uni with someone who walked with a leg calliper due to polio - she died due to polio related complication when we were in our 40's

I've had flu - once in my 20's and once in my late 30's. I never want to go though that ever again. I have never felt so ill, fragile and vulnerable.

I will have whatever vaccines are on offer to lessen my chance of getting seriously ill with COVID.

Of course I'll have them all, as I'm neither stupid, selfish or both.

@desperate4spring

I can't quite get my head around the logic of the pp who won't have any more vaccines because the booster gave her a headache and made her tired

A small price to pay surely?

I can't get my head around the lack of respect for personal choice

Some side effect risks are independent variables - so whilst the chance of a particular side effect is 1 in million, take it 10 times and it's 1 in 100,000. Still a big number of course, but then the benefit of the vaccine in some groups is limited, the side effect risk is already similar to the covid risk - for those groups, the risk structure really does change.

Each vaccination is an independent event so no, the risk wouldn't be 1 in 100,000 at 10 times. It would still be 1 in a million.

Those who aren't intending to have all of the boosters - I'm hoping that you'll be willing to take a stand against vaccine passports (if plan B is enacted) for your own sake. Up-to-date boosters will undoubtedly be required to keep that green tick.

I'm not sure I am. I've never had the flu vaccine before - not because I'm against it, but because it wouldn't have crossed my mind to think that I needed it.
What does concern, confuse and irritate me is that, at the beginning of all of this, we were told that being overweight puts you at a much greater risk from becoming severely ill from Covid. We still know that to be the case, although its become controversial to say it, but there is NO encouragement for people to lose weight and get healthy. The vaccine is the ONLY route to health that's being promoted.
I guess one can't be turned into billion dollar profits for Big Pharma as easily as the other.

With flu vaccine I always thought I'd get it when I reached a point where I felt "old". Will get it this year for the first time at the same time as booster for covid. I'm pretty well decided to not continue down this road though. This winter I'll do it but then I will reconsider. I don't see them as necessary to me personally. I'm not terrified of covid19. Just as I'm not terrified of flu.
I am worried about the NHS ability to cope however.

@derxa Very sorry to read about your vaccine-triggered psoriasis. It’s an awful condition. A friend with it swears by Green People skincare. I thought I’d mention it on the off-chance it might help you.

Each vaccination is an independent event so no, the risk wouldn't be 1 in 100,000 at 10 times. It would still be 1 in a million

How, please explain in detail? You roll a dice 6 times, the chance of rolling a 6 does not remain at 1 in 6 which is the chance of rolling a 6 on the first trial.

I'm still not well from my second jab in July so I wouldn't keep having them as I'm really struggling. I've never had a flu jab and have never had flu. I don't object to vaccines at all and I'm doubled jabbed but my health as massively suffered since and I'm in chronic pain as well as other issues.

No, I don't have the flu one either because I haven't reached the old cut off age for it which was 65 for a free one, they only changed it to save the NHS, before covid anyone under 65 who wasn't vulnerable had to pay.