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Omg my social media feeds are going crazy!

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november90 · 08/12/2021 21:46

Literally everyone posting about refusing the boosters now after he back and forth with restrictions and the government breaking the rules etc! I can't believe it!
Anyone else seeing the same thing?
I wonder if it is like this in other countries who have reintroduced restrictions etc.

This is not my view btw, I'm happy to take my booster but obviously very annoyed with new restrictions too. So hope my sons Nativity isn't cancelled :(

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Warhertisuff · 09/12/2021 09:27

@KatyRebecca84

We are putting something in our body that hasn't been tested

What a ridiculous lie. There have literally been billions of vaccine doses given after extensive testing before they were approved for use.

KatyRebecca84 · 09/12/2021 09:29

[quote Warhertisuff]@KatyRebecca84

We are putting something in our body that hasn't been tested

What a ridiculous lie. There have literally been billions of vaccine doses given after extensive testing before they were approved for use.[/quote]
It hasn't been as vigorously tested for as long as other vaccines.

It effected my periods and many other women's too.. why would that be?!

It has it's risks which I know Covid does too, but it's still worrying to keep putting vaccines in your body!

fournonblondes · 09/12/2021 09:30

@KaleJuicer

Everyone I know has had or is getting their booster. I guess because they’re intelligent enough to draw a distinction between govt buffoonery and a public health intervention that will help them and/or their family and community.
Good that the government got those boosters for you. I guess you must recognise they are doing something right.
KatyRebecca84 · 09/12/2021 09:33

@wincarwoo
KatyRebecca84

TBH I felt like this before the restrictions.. it was actually the talk of the new strain.... I mean how many strains are there going to be and how many new boosters will we need. We were told the vaccinations would stop lockdowns etc.. It isn't going to happen. We are putting something in our body that hasn't been tested, to prevent us catching something but it doesn't actually seem to work and we are still having our freedom taken away!

It doesn't prevent you catching Covid. Dear god. It reduces the risk of dying from it.

Well if that's the case, why are hospitals apparently still full of critically ill patients then?!

fournonblondes · 09/12/2021 09:35

@Libertaire

Many young healthy people only got vaccinated because they believed the government when it said this was the way to get their freedoms back and their lives back to normal.

Now that the government is proving that it lied to them, and that it has absolutely no intention of ever removing restrictions on people’s lives I don’t blame them for telling Boris where to stick his vaccines and his passports.

And no, I’m not an anti-vaxxer. I had my third booster dose earlier this week.

This
andi62 · 09/12/2021 09:45

2nd Jab wise, initially I shit blood, then I was constipated - didn't go for 8 days - had to dig my shit out, suffered deafness, ocular migraines, plus all the usual side effects, yellow cards were submitted.

Which is why I'm in no rush, for the booster, having been double jabbed and being PCR tested positive, on the 1st November, the booster can wait a while yet.

worriedatthemoment · 09/12/2021 10:03

@KatyRebecca84 there less full than they were
It reduces the risk
Like a seatbelt it reduced the risk in an accident doesn't mean people still don't die or get seriously injured whilst wearing but reduces the risk

worriedatthemoment · 09/12/2021 10:05

@fournonblondes no one lied to anyone
We are being asked to wear masks and wfh if can ,
Its a new virus no one can exactly predict what will happen and new vaccines and actually we have had relative freedom the last few months due to the vaccines , prior to them we were in actual lockdowns
Do people really have the short a memory
Have one , don't have one its your choice but at same time remember this is new

Juniper68 · 09/12/2021 10:08

I had my booster because of work needing it. Luckily I felt ok. But loads I know have been very poorly after it so I agree with others avoiding it if they can. What's the point if there's a risk to health? I had covid last year too.

wincarwoo · 09/12/2021 10:09

[quote KatyRebecca84]@wincarwoo
KatyRebecca84

TBH I felt like this before the restrictions.. it was actually the talk of the new strain.... I mean how many strains are there going to be and how many new boosters will we need. We were told the vaccinations would stop lockdowns etc.. It isn't going to happen. We are putting something in our body that hasn't been tested, to prevent us catching something but it doesn't actually seem to work and we are still having our freedom taken away!

It doesn't prevent you catching Covid. Dear god. It reduces the risk of dying from it.

Well if that's the case, why are hospitals apparently still full of critically ill patients then?![/quote]
Because they haven't been vaxxed.

Juniper68 · 09/12/2021 10:10

@andi62

2nd Jab wise, initially I shit blood, then I was constipated - didn't go for 8 days - had to dig my shit out, suffered deafness, ocular migraines, plus all the usual side effects, yellow cards were submitted.

Which is why I'm in no rush, for the booster, having been double jabbed and being PCR tested positive, on the 1st November, the booster can wait a while yet.

I know someone else with those symptoms. Are you ok now?
HarrietOh · 09/12/2021 10:12

I'm in my 30s and not in a big rush for a booster. I've already had covid (just had a headache) and I was 100 times more ill from the 2 jabs, with a day or two of feeling unwell after both. I haven't got time at the moment to have a day or two off work ill again for a booster, for a virus that only causes me a headache if I catch it.

vera99 · 09/12/2021 10:15

Breaking: Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds announce birth of daughter
Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds have announced "the birth of a healthy baby girl at a London hospital earlier today".

A spokesman for the couple said: "The Prime Minister and Mrs Johnson are delighted to announce the birth of a healthy baby girl at a London hospital earlier today.

"Both mother and daughter are doing very well. The couple would like to thank the brilliant NHS maternity team for all their care and support."

worriedatthemoment · 09/12/2021 10:17

Even my 18 year old knows having the vaccination isn't purely about protecting himself same as my 16 year old who had covid with no symptoms
Have one , don't have one but at least have a basic understanding of why

andi62 · 09/12/2021 10:18

Much better now, thank you, Juniper68

Geamhradh · 09/12/2021 10:21

@Kyliealwayshadthebestdisco

Agree with a PP earlier in the thread who said this is a mad reaction by the UK public. I get the anger and agree with it but we are just punishing ourselves by saying we won’t get boosters FFS. We should be using this anger to demand that heads roll very high up )l(like the PM…)
Agreed. I'm in Italy (but British) and a teacher who was thankful to be given my booster last Sunday along with all my other colleagues. Our secondary school has about 14 unvaccinated teenagers out of 988 students (14-19 year olds) Since September when the school opened, ONE student has done a week online because her younger brother caught Covid. Not one case in our school. If I have to have a booster every fucking week to be able to go into my classroom and see my kids, then I'll do it.
Juniper68 · 09/12/2021 10:26

@andi62

Much better now, thank you, Juniper68
That's good to hear
ichundich · 09/12/2021 10:33

@vera99

Breaking: Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds announce birth of daughter Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds have announced "the birth of a healthy baby girl at a London hospital earlier today".

A spokesman for the couple said: "The Prime Minister and Mrs Johnson are delighted to announce the birth of a healthy baby girl at a London hospital earlier today.

"Both mother and daughter are doing very well. The couple would like to thank the brilliant NHS maternity team for all their care and support."

Who cares?
CaptainChannel · 09/12/2021 10:40

I'm as appalled as the next person over the Christmas party stuff with the government. It hasn't stopped me having my booster though, and everyone I know is having or will have.
Me being pissed off with the government doesn't change the fact that my best friend in her 30s on a ventilator in hospital due to covid. Perhaps if people just get their boosters and wear a fucking mask we can reduce the amount of examples like this.

bumbleymummy · 09/12/2021 10:44

@bizboz

Strange logic. If more people get their boosters then presumably the number of people infected with Covid (certainly seriously enough to require hospitalisation) will be fewer and restrictions should be in place for a shorter time.
Actually, we’ve been being told that the vaccine holds up very well at protecting people against serious illness/hospitalisation - just not at preventing infection/transmission. It does start to wane faster in elderly/vulnerable people so that’s why they were prioritised for boosters.
RedToothBrush · 09/12/2021 10:45

@vera99

Breaking: Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds announce birth of daughter Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds have announced "the birth of a healthy baby girl at a London hospital earlier today".

A spokesman for the couple said: "The Prime Minister and Mrs Johnson are delighted to announce the birth of a healthy baby girl at a London hospital earlier today.

"Both mother and daughter are doing very well. The couple would like to thank the brilliant NHS maternity team for all their care and support."

Well that is a good distraction technique.

I guess Johnson can go on paternity leave and leave Raab to answer all the shit for a day or two.

Good to know that Johnson will be completing focused on the multiple crisis he has managed of his own making.

VikingOnTheFridge · 09/12/2021 10:48

@EileenGC

It's probably because your PM didn't have a party one day after telling us he was cancelling Christmas

That’s true, they didn’t, I would’ve been mightily pissed off too if that had happened.

But I’d be demanding and protesting for those people to be fired, instead of looking for ‘revenge’ in the form of booster refusal. If that’s a thing Grin

Some of it, by no means all, comes from a belief that such demands will be ignored. People don't believe they can hold politicians to account. Boris will just tell us it's over now and doesn't matter, and the Met police are institutionally corrupt. So instead, they direct their anger at something they actually can control. I still want my booster, but i get it. In a lot of cases the people refusing or saying they'll refuse are incredibly low risk anyway, so it's not even a cutting off nose to spite face thing.

Basically, if you have a government who treat the public with this level of contempt and who respond to protest the way this lot have, you don't leave many avenues for people to show how angry they are. So some of them fall back on refusing to cooperate. It's inevitable really.

VitalsStable · 09/12/2021 10:49

The more people have the booster the less this will go on and on. It's another mutation, we might always need boosters, saying you can't be arsed won't stop this merry go round!

churchofthepoisonmind · 09/12/2021 10:54

@VitalsStable

The more people have the booster the less this will go on and on. It's another mutation, we might always need boosters, saying you can't be arsed won't stop this merry go round!
I seem to remember these very same words about the vaccine.
wincarwoo · 09/12/2021 11:00

@churchofthepoisonmind imagine how much worse this would be without the vaccine.