Anyone not getting a booster?

[LifesTooShortYOLO]

What are you reasons for not getting the booster?

If anyone is interested on different vaccine/ booster combos & efficacy over time against omicron etc... this is the only paper I can find. It is preprint but I thought to see a graph was quite helpful.

khub.net/documents/135939561/430986542/Effectiveness+of+COVID-19+vaccines+against+Omicron+variant+of+concern.pdf/f423c9f4-91cb-0274-c8c5-70e8fad50074

@LunaDeet

I’m on the fence. Omicron is so transmissible that we are likely to be exposed to it in the next few weeks. I don’t think I’ll get an appointment in that time frame so why bother after I’ve had it.

Two vaccines in a year is quite enough thank you.

theres 66 million people in this country, you think we are all gonna get it in the next few weeks? I feckin hope not

I had my booster yesterday (Moderna after 2 x AZ) and I feel fine.

There are walk in centres open in the city I’m in and having watched 2 people ahead of me it’s really easy to get a jab.

Life may be about having 2-3 vaccines a year from now, but having lost so much through lockdown I personally am ok with that.

@Ineedapuppy

I had my booster yesterday (Moderna after 2 x AZ) and I feel fine.

There are walk in centres open in the city I’m in and having watched 2 people ahead of me it’s really easy to get a jab.

Life may be about having 2-3 vaccines a year from now, but having lost so much through lockdown I personally am ok with that.

Lockdown is invented (at the stage) for you to keep getting vaccinated. Are you really ok to be blackmailed like this for rest of your life? You do not owe your freedom to the government.

@LifeIsWhat If I can be “free” to travel again for the price of a vaccine, I’ll take that.

I do however, have difficulty with enforced vaccination programs and people losing their jobs because of refusing vaccines.

[quote Ineedapuppy]@LifeIsWhat If I can be “free” to travel again for the price of a vaccine, I’ll take that.

I do however, have difficulty with enforced vaccination programs and people losing their jobs because of refusing vaccines.[/quote]
Absolutely. Can't wait to be sipping cocktails by a pool in a bikini while these people witter on about 'freedom'.

This thread has introduced me to the term anti-booster.

I’m unsure still. I had Moderna. After the first jab I had “Covid arm” for weeks. After the second, I’m having a lot of pain and weakness in my arm. It’s been months now, had the second jab in May. But I am the only one in the family who had long term side effects, if that’s what they are.

I’m not getting a booster. After my second jab I was so ill I took to my bed for two days and was so tired I couldn’t open my eyes for most of that. I then got a period even though I’d only just finished one.

I’ve had the first two vaccines and am unlikely to get ill from COVID, which at this point worries me less than a mysterious vaccine that only works for a few months and has barely acknowledged side effects to women’s menstral cycles. We have no idea what the vaccines are doing to our bodies so at this point I don’t have enough trust to put even more vaccine into my body.

I’m not an anti-vaxxer by any means. I got the first two mainly to stop covid spreading and so we could get normal life back, but the vaccines don’t stop it spreading and we’re back to having restrictions reintroduced.

The narrative that we're all spoiled Western ingrates and that people in the developing world would be so grateful for a vaccine simply isn't true. There is huge vaccine scepticism in many developing countries.

South Africa has plenty of vaccines, people just don't want them. In comparison, the UK has high levels of trust and has had a very high uptake.

It's quite a patronising narrative.

@Asi1

The vaccinations have fucked up my period l have been having 2 period a months since my first vaccinations.

I'm dreading what the booster will do, but l will still have it.

I haven't had a period since I had mine last year. Still waiting for my Drs to have any blood test appointments.

As for the booster I had mine a month ago and even though it was Pfizer that I'd had twice before I had side effects this time.

Wow. You haven't had a period since getting the vaccine but you went ahead and got the booster anyway? Why?! Also, shocking that you haven't been able to get an appointment to investigate . Awful. They really need to find out what exactly is causing these menstrual issues, it doesn't seem that rare at all.

@FromEden

Wow. You haven't had a period since getting the vaccine but you went ahead and got the booster anyway? Why?! Also, shocking that you haven't been able to get an appointment to investigate . Awful. They really need to find out what exactly is causing these menstrual issues, it doesn't seem that rare at all.

I got the booster as I work with very vulnerable children and did it for them not me. I can't get a blood test as all the nurses are doing Covid jabs and they only have very limited slots for anything else. For the first few months I was just seeing how it went and like I say I haven't had anything since. I'm only in my 30s so unlikely to be the menopause and I haven't had sex in 5 years so pregnancy isn't an issue either.

I'm in no rush and not anytime soon. My cycles have been haphazard ever since.

I don’t understand why people are so triggered at the prospect of an annual booster? It’s a virus, viruses mutate. The flu vaccine has an annual booster. The vaccine doesn’t 100% prevent you getting covid (I’m not sure any vaccines do offer a 100% guarantee) but it does reduce the likelihood you’ll be severely affected by it. An annual vaccine seems a small price to pay for not being in ITU on life support to me

But @Namechangetimes100 we aren't talking about an annual booster. It's looking like we will be having several a year. And onky a tiny minority end up in ITU, and they tend to have certain risk factors, meaning those without those risk factors stand a massively reduced chance of complications.
And it can't be compared to the flu jab. I've never even been offered the flu jab and have never taken it, because its accepted I'm not in a risk group. Whereas the covid jab looks like its going to become mandatory.
Like I'm said in previous posts, where's the campaigns and the social pressure for people to get fit and slim instead?

In the meantime restrictions are needed because the NHS is buckling. And this isn't just about getting sick with covid - it's about needing any treatment at all. There are people dying of heart attacks in the back of ambulances because the paramedics have had to wait hours because the hospital is full and they cannot unload their patient. Stroke victims are suffering life changing injuries because they can't get the treatment drugs within the time limit to be effective

This is my primary reason for hoping as many people will be vaxxed and boostered as much as possible, but I'm also mindful that the NHS was in a dire state before Covid, and that Covid has simply brought it to a head.

It needs massive investment, reorganisation and a change in culture to reduce stress and pressure on staff. I'm convinced that this government are letting it fail so that they can say it's not fit for purpose and move to a private, insurance based system.

@Aquarius1234

Is the booster the same size needle?

Yes. The Moderna booster is a half volume dose but the syringes and needles are essentially the same. Tiny.

Johnson’s emotional blackmail about potential impact on cancer treatments in January is despicable.

I will wait for hard data and then make a decision. The arguments and data presented thus far are shaky to say the least (research scientist).

Because this is how farcical its become

@MaxNormal

The narrative that we're all spoiled Western ingrates and that people in the developing world would be so grateful for a vaccine simply isn't true. There is huge vaccine scepticism in many developing countries.

South Africa has plenty of vaccines, people just don't want them. In comparison, the UK has high levels of trust and has had a very high uptake.

It's quite a patronising narrative.

But there are also loads of places where people would love to be vaccinated. You do know the developing world is a lot more than Africa? I used to live in a South American country and still have friends/family there. People were falling over themselves to get jabbed. They know if they got covid, they couldn't count on free hospital care. There's no furlough or long term sick pay. They'd just be left to get on with it.

People are very entitled here. They think and expect that other people will save them from the consequences of their own decisions in a way that definitely doesn't happen in the developing world.

If you genuinely cannot see the incredibly positive impact the vaccines have had on the UK death rate (see attached graphs) then I’m not surprised you are posting such rubbish.

Scientific illiteracy is a huge problem on threads like this. Posters may think “they are entitled to an opinion” but if you don’t have the scientific understanding, or understanding of how the research community works then your opinion is equivalent to an astrology prediction.

@CamQ

Johnson’s emotional blackmail about potential impact on cancer treatments in January is despicable.

I will wait for hard data and then make a decision. The arguments and data presented thus far are shaky to say the least (research scientist).

It's not blackmail. It's the truth. It's already happening.

That post was @Dreamstate