Anyone not getting a booster?

[LifesTooShortYOLO]

What are you reasons for not getting the booster?

Currently have covid and I wish I'd had my booster (was booked for the day I tested positive). Covid is horrible! When people say it's like a cold they have no idea.

[quote portandchocolate]@Waxonwaxoff0
Who do you think you are punishing? The Gov? Or your fellow humans.

Your attitude is awful. [/quote]
I'm not punishing anyone, I'm just not basing my decisions on "protecting the NHS" any more.

@megustalacerveza, long covid is the thing that worries me the most because I have ME/CFS and I know very well what it means to suffer in the way you describe (unable to go up the stairs blabla). Took me long enough to get over that!!

However, omicron is different from alpha or delta (which your friend got) and we have no idea what sort if effect it will actually have, including it’s effect on long covid (more/less/the same rates of long covid???).

I’m nit keen on getting medication, whatever they are and including vaccines, just for the sake of it.

But atm we have little info on what omicron is.

@Tilly28

Currently have covid and I wish I'd had my booster (was booked for the day I tested positive). Covid is horrible! When people say it's like a cold they have no idea.

I had it, and it was like a cold. It is like a cold for many.

@Valhalla17

How many of these threads are we going to have?

Just scroll past

@Waxonwaxoff0 but so what?! It doesn't matter whose fault it is - the situation is what it is!

Your attitude is like someone who crosses a broken, rickety bridge across a valley, saying "it's the council's fault if I fall, they should have repaired it." What use is that when you're dead?

@Marypoppins19

Does this mean children aren’t protected now then?

What do you mean now ?

@Pinklaptopz

I had mine booked today, but the queue was two and a half hours long so gave up (I was with dc4 and dc3mo). I will try again this week.

For a pre booked appointment? 😱

@Tilly28

Currently have covid and I wish I'd had my booster (was booked for the day I tested positive). Covid is horrible! When people say it's like a cold they have no idea.

I think it depends, for lots of people it is mild

My cousin (36) has long Covid and it's scary to see a previously healthy woman so lacking in energy - she's always been an outdoorsy type, walking and cycling.

I would like you to get a booster, as apparently my cancer treatment will be stopped if you dont!

I am currently mid-chemo with surgery booked for March.

[quote megustalacerveza]@Waxonwaxoff0 but so what?! It doesn't matter whose fault it is - the situation is what it is!

Your attitude is like someone who crosses a broken, rickety bridge across a valley, saying "it's the council's fault if I fall, they should have repaired it." What use is that when you're dead?[/quote]
I'm not going to die from Covid, so that's not a worry.

Not yet for me. I might have a Novavax booster if they ever get around to approving it. Not having any mRNA injections.

I’m in no rush. I’ve had 2 Pfizer and a recent natural infection. I’m sure I’ll do it eventually but I’m not getting all pointy elbowed about it.

I will have it but not this side of xmas.
I feel like everything we have been told has turned out to be bollocks and I'd rather wait to see how things look with a bit more evidence in a month or so than blindly following the government like I have so far.

Had booster on Friday. As with first two, feel groggy. Hopefully better tomorrow.

Don't think my joints can take it. Feel like I've aged 10 years since I was jabbed. Coincidence maybe, but I don't want to find out.

I am part of a vaccine trial, if I have the booster I will have to leave the trial as it will invalidate any results. I dont feel strongly enough about having the booster to mess up the trial and waste the last 7 months I've been part of it.

@BubblingRiver

Of course I won't be getting my booster, the whole thing is becoming a farce.

Are we expected to believe that pfizer researchers ( no vested interest ) are saying with a straight face that 2 jabs of pfizer aren't enough for the new variant but....... one jab is in the form of a booster for those that have had the Az jab which is next to useless apparently for the new strain. Why would one jab be sufficient working with a completely different vaccine technology when 2 jabs aren't sufficient? As always, it's about money and greed rather than public health as we see from the people implementing these rules and regulations who don't follow them themselves.

It’s because a booster raises your antibody levels 5-10 fold higher than they were at the peak after two doses. It’s nothing to do with which vaccine you had but the antibody levels. As an example after two doses your level might be 2000 decreasing to 500 at six months. After the booster peoples antibodies are going up to 20000. As only a certain percentage are effective against omicron you need the higher antibody levels that you get after the booster.

Struggling to fit daughters’ second jabs around school, college and work as it is, with no availability in the town we live in.

And I’m so downhearted about the fucking shambles we’ve managed to turn this country into with Brexit and the fucking corrupt, arrogant and dishonest leeches we thought it would be good voting in. Add to it his followers who now feel vindicated not giving a fuck about anyone, masks etc etc, I’ve just literally lost the will to engage with it.

I had a heart attack in 2019, was off for a long time, got back to work properly in Jan 2020 and have worked from home since Mar 2020. I just have had enough of it all.

I had a moderna booster. Is that effective against this new variant?

@Tilly28

Currently have covid and I wish I'd had my booster (was booked for the day I tested positive). Covid is horrible! When people say it's like a cold they have no idea.

It wasn’t even as bad as a cold for me. It really depends on the individual. It isn’t a myth that it can be very mild.

70% protection for a virus from a booster does not mean you have a 70% chance of not catching it ever. It means that your risk of catching it is 70% less than the equivalent unvaccinated person.

So if you go a super-spreader event where every unvaccinated person is infected - you have 70% chance of avoiding infection, but that doesn't mean you'll also miss out when you go to your next super-spreader event, it'll again be that 3 out of 10 chance of getting it.

Because I felt so ill after my 2nd one and because I'm not prepared to keep having vaccines, I already have my yearly flu jab and struggle to find time to get that single parent with an Ex who refuses to help outside of his normal time

@WeeFae

I would like you to get a booster, as apparently my cancer treatment will be stopped if you dont!

I am currently mid-chemo with surgery booked for March.

I am so sorry. That was a despicable threat from our Prime Minister.