Vaccination rush... for what exactly?!

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UKHSC says if you had the second jab more than 3 months ago, you're not likely to be protected against omicron and they go on to saying that we're talking about symptomatic mild cases. However, if you get the 3rd jab, suddenly, your protection level is pumped up to 75%... and we're still talking about symptomatic MILD cases!! So, are we all rushing to get this jab for the common cold?!?

If there was a vaccine for the common cold, I’d take it

is about all I can muster in response to this.

If you have a lab at home and have all the scientific data you should be contacting the Government and the WHO...
No one knows yet if it's mild and 'like the common cold'

@CarrieBlue

If there was a vaccine for the common cold, I’d take it

This! Isn’t this what the world has been work on and the first person to do this/find a cure will become the richest overnight as it would be so popular? Even back in uni decades ago we were paid as students to count tissues/try nose sprays at the research centre trying to find a cure/treatment,

What @Moonopoly said.

A small percentage of all infections end up in hospital. A small percentage of a fucking huge number of infections (which is what is going to happen without boosters or limiting social contact, or both) is going to be a lot of people going to hospital and the NHS won’t cope.

That’s the issue.

If the numbers keep doubling every 2.5 days, the whole UK population will be infected by the end of January. OK it will slow down but still a very high proportion of the population will be poorly.
Some will require hospital treatment. Maybe only a tenth of those compared with Delta, where do we find beds for 10s or 100s of thousands of people.

I had my second jab 5 months ago. I'm under 40, just, so can't book my next one yet. I work in a school where COVID is raging. I will be rushing to get mine as soon as I'm allowed, and it can't come soon enough. It's not always mild...

A lot of people are failing to understand that although - so far - cases seem to be more mild, due to the high transmission rates it is no less dangerous as the other varients.

Simply put, common sense tells you that if there are huge numbers of people contracting the virus, that will naturally result in more people requiring hospital treatments / death. It's a numbers game. That will put more strain on the NHS, and the more strain the NHS is under with huge numbers of sick people, the less availability there are for hospital beds for those people (and non-covid related patients) meaning people will not be able to receive the quality of care they need to fully recover.

If more people are better protected, it means there will be less people falling ill, allowing the NHS to actually care for those who do need it - mainly the already frail and vulnerable.

There's enough evidence now about the vaccines to know that for the vast majority of society they are completely safe. And we should do our bit to get the vaccines so those who can't are better protected as a result.

I mean, is there a template used for this rubbish? Why do all the posts attempting to sound like critical thinking (without of course actually using any critical thinking ability at all) always end with referring to the virus as a common cold?. Did people just give up even bothering to type and started copying and pasting?

I do think this current situation bears closer inspection for a variety of reasons (I'm vaccinated and boosted so I certainly can't be accused of anti vaccine sentiment but I have no problem querying things currently due to the government's behaviour) but can we honestly just try to ask some original questions without resorting to tired hyperbole that people can't even be bothered to reword in any new way?

Honestly at this point these points are exist a bit lazy.

People are obviously comparing it to a 'common cold' because that's exactly what it was like for many of them.

Nope , if that was the case the phrase would be used to relate to an individual case or experience. By using it as a broad brush term it changes the implication to undermine the wider experience of the virus. Which is just lazy if you can't work out that people have had different experiences with it.

People pnly ever over generalise when they know that specifics are not going to back up their point. It's the difference between emotive hyperbole masquerading as a point and actual evidence based arguments.

@Nietzschethehiker what do you expect exactly when this is the info provided to us?
... the 3rd vaccine is going to protect me from having MILD symptoms of omicron... the exact words of Dr Susan Hopkins Chief Medical Advisor at UKHSC.

It really doesn't hurt to use my brain and start asking questions when being faced with such a ludicrous statement.