Omg my social media feeds are going crazy!

[november90]

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 :(

@xaint

... additionally the omicron variant is speading amongst the vaccinated and booster blasted but not the unvaccinated... Couldn't make this up.

Got a link for that?

Can't say it's the same in my circles.

I'm v. early 30's and got my booster today by chance at a walk-in... super last minute.

The only people who are loud and proud are the anti-vaxxer type.

I’m British but currently outside of the UK.

The UK is out on it’s own with all of this ‘masks are restrictions’! And all the craziness of it’s reactions. The rest of Europe has never stopped wearing masks, everyone wears masks in schools, most aren’t back in the workplace full-time, they take ventilation seriously, nightlife and restaurants have had Covid vaccine passports all along, and have just opened up and not full capacity.

It’s really strange being outside and seeing how ‘normal’ it is for the UK to have such a high death toll, so many cases for so long, and yet still think the office party is OK and almost nothing in schools. UK really is an outlier.

@HariboMaroon

I just can’t be arsed now to get my booster, I was only up for vax to get my life back!

I’m early 30s and now just think what is the fucking point? If we didn’t have restrictions I would absolutely get my booster but now I’m just demoralised.

What’s the point, I’ve been exposed to covid loads of times now and quite frankly im still here and very much alive.

Good for you ……. Not.

I was double vaccinated - didn’t mean I couldn’t catch it and didn’t mean I couldn’t pass it on.

I got Covid quote fit and healthy as did my closest co worker - both of us seriously ill but not in hospital - however, another person in our dept not vaccinated (only had first) didn’t take the second much younger and fitter then us - didn’t take second dose as I’m only 27 …,, half our age - he’s on a hospital ventilator right now.

Being vaccinated means stats wise you avoid hospital and massively decreases your chance of dying - that’s the game right now - stay out of hospital or not me I’m having every bloody booster going - I really hope to god others don’t feel
Like I felt

@TortolaParadise

Please refresh my memory; when the vaccines were first rolled out, were boosters part of that announcement/government narrative?

I’m pretty certain that the possibility of having an annual booster was discussed. I believe coronavirus vaccines in animals require one. I might be completely wrong though. But why should it matter?

Nothing on mine except from the local forums. But not expecting to see anything from friends, I don't be friend idiots.

@MatildaJayne

What a weird thread! So many people refusing to get a booster to ‘get back’ at the government? I don’t get it?

It's not to 'get back at the government'. I wasn't very enthusiastic about the double vaccination, but did it in order to see and end to lockdowns, face masks, another year with no income, etc. If we're sliding back to restrictions on our lives again, what's the fucking point in having a third vaccination?

It matters because you shouldn't NEED a booster 12 weeks after the vaccine 12 months yes but not 12 weeks

41 and just had to delay my booster for a few weeks as I got Covid recently. After two vaccines, it felt comparable to flu and I don’t want it again if I can avoid it and I really do not want to pass Covid on to anyone.

There was a point I was getting worried about my breathing and I am very glad to do my bit to try and stop this.

The less uptake of vaccines means the more likely the need for restrictions.

I saw a couple of people asking where they could get fake covid passes 🤦‍♀️ I'm double jabbed and had my booster and flu jab, I avoid people all the time (even pre covid) I'm a full time carer so don't go out to work

I haven’t seen a lot of this on Social Media but I’m relatively unsurprised. 40 here & will be having my booster as soon as possible as I was seriously ill when I caught Covid after only one vaccination a few months ago and I’m still suffering with it’s legacy.

@CherryBlossomAutumn

I’m British but currently outside of the UK.

The UK is out on it’s own with all of this ‘masks are restrictions’! And all the craziness of it’s reactions. The rest of Europe has never stopped wearing masks, everyone wears masks in schools, most aren’t back in the workplace full-time, they take ventilation seriously, nightlife and restaurants have had Covid vaccine passports all along, and have just opened up and not full capacity.

It’s really strange being outside and seeing how ‘normal’ it is for the UK to have such a high death toll, so many cases for so long, and yet still think the office party is OK and almost nothing in schools. UK really is an outlier.

Yes dear

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59363256

Nope not a word on my social media and everyone I know has had or is going to have the booster but then many of us come from a generation when childhood diseases like Measles and German measles were serious illnesses (including for me - hospitalised with bronchial pneumonia) and even maimed and killed our peers.

Xiant Bollocks! I spoke to somebody developing the vaccines in May 2020. A lot of the underlying technology was already developed, Covid meant the money was there when funding shortfalls would have delayed the necessary trials. They were able to carry out those trials sooner but they were still the same trials that any vaccine would have gone through.

I have a low white blood cell count. 18 years of immune boosting supplements have never made a blind bit of difference - and some supposed immune boosters actually reduced my blood count further. Everyone’s immune system is different, and though I take supplements and follow the scientific trials to see if any others have benefits claiming magical properties for them is fantasy .

And I had Covid asymptomatically. I am part of a study which has already identified SNPs , small particles on your DNA that predict whether you experience serious or mild illness with Covid. If you want to play pot luck with Covid and your gene pool, and magical thinking on supplements, then fine but don’t spread dangerous nonsense.

There is plenty of evidence of the damage that sort of nonsense does in relation to Cancer treatment without it giving people dangerous reassurance on Covid

@SecretKeeper1 also UK comes across as totally patronising… and full of itself. Like your comment.

It’s pretty bad, everyone I meet just shakes their head in disbelief about England. It’s not my fault so I’ve no idea what to say! One couple I know went over for a holiday but came back as all the not wearing masks on public transport did their head in.

It might be good for some to go to somewhere like Germany and see that UK really is pretty bad compared.

I'm mid/late 30's and currently 6months pregnant. I've had my 2 vaccines and when the booster is offered I will have it. I'm due my booster in January and welcome it with my sleeve rolled up. It's not about me, it's about protecting others and my unborn child.

There are some daft twats walking among us and many of them frequent the social media of the OP,

I have my booster planned for early January when I'm on holiday. I'm actually allowed to take time off for it and a friend told me I should change my appointment to an earlier time if possible. (I'm not in the UK).
Do people think I really need to do this? I'm scared of getting side effects just before Christmas (didn't feel great after the first one, but nothing serious). I'm 44.

If you want people to get boosters, and you probably should want people to get boosters, how do you think dismissing them as ‘daft twats’ and ‘stupid’ and ‘antivaxxers’ is going to help?

Anyone eligible for the booster has already had two doses. So they were willing to have that. If they’re not willing to have a booster and you would like them to change their mind, maybe it is worth listening to what their actual reasons might be and then responding to those?

And I have a booster appointment all booked up, which I spent bloody ages trying to get, before anyone finger-wags at me that I am not appreciating The Science.

"The UK is out on it’s own with all of this ‘masks are restrictions’! And all the craziness of it’s reactions. The rest of Europe has never stopped wearing masks"

The Netherlands dropped masks for a while. Flanders in Belgium did too, but only for a short time.
Sweden hardly had restrictions at all.

@tulips27

A lot will be paid troll farms in Russia/similar who have been trying to undermine our efforts all along.

Was this meant for the Conspiracy post?

In response to the ‘everything is great in Europe as we’ve had mask all along’ post

France just reported 61,000 cases today. Despite masks and vaccine passports.

Sweden has had very few restrictions and last time I looked their deaths were negligible.

We had a very specific strategy to avoid peaks in the winter. Worse case we would hit 100,000 cases but that hasn’t happened. We’ve bumped along at half that.

Cherryblossom And if Europeans are shocked then that is nothing to the Hong Kong refugees and Asian visitors that are arriving here. It is a matter of incomprehension that you wouldn’t do something as simple and easy as wear a mask in a pandemic, or why it has become such a political / ideological / egotistical issue. But then in many Asian countries they got used to it whilst containing SARS and in Japan not wearing a mask when likely to transmit any infectious disease has been culturally unacceptable since the 1918 flu pandemic. As with Sweden the willingness of people to take sensible infection control measures to protect themselves and others has meant less need to impose restrictions.

@MMMarmite

I'm delighted by my booster. I think the government are absolute cocks but that doesn't stop me wanting to keep myself healthy!

Same here!

Literally no-one I know is refusing their booster or kicking up a fuss. Some people have posted about getting it on Facebook (with happiness), most are just getting it when they can and then getting on with their lives.

I'm looking forward to getting it next week and feeling a bit safer, as I'm coming up to six months past my last one and feel vulnerable. If I can avoid being very ill I will - the same reason I get my flu jab.