If you could go back in time, would you still get the jab?

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If you could go back in time, would you still get the Covid jab?

I don’t really care if you’re vaccinated or not, but I’m interested if people would go back and change their decision?

God no. Run a mile.

Yes, absolutely. Had all 4.

It's also made me magnetic, which has come in useful a few times.

Amazing! 😆

That doesn't really prove much other than your own personal anecdotes and circumstances.

In mine, I had Covid as an unvaccinated person. I have had worse hangovers. The vaccinated people I know that caught it were very poorly. One was even too poorly to even WFH. She ended up in hospital with blood clots.
The unvaccinated people I know of that had Covid, also breezed through it.
When anyone came up with "thank fuck for the vaccine, I would have died otherwise", I just thought no. That is not true.
Nowhere in my head did a neuron ping and think "unvaccinated good, vaccinated bad".
That was my experience though. I am not applying it to the nation, and neither should anyone else with the opposite experience.

I would totally have had all of the Covid jabs I've had, 4 so far, and I think anyone who wouldn't is being selfish if not worse.

@toocold54 because MMR & polio vaccines actually protect my child from something that could harm him. There is an extremely tiny risk of Covid to my child, therefore I’ve made an informed decision in vaccinating my child against Covid. Same with myself. I had 2 covid vaccines & have been left with terrible viral responses to the slightest thing & it had debilitated me far more than covid ever did.

So the people who stopped due to heart trouble, you want us to have more?

Isn't it selfish to expect other people to undergo a medical procedure to protect you?

Yes.
I’ve had all four to date and so far minimal side-effects and yet to get Covid. I also get the flu vaccine every year.

I may have to start my own thread as no one has said WHY this vaccine is different to all the other vaccines that they’re still happy to have.

I also can’t see anyone who has said no because of the side effects, has explained why having a small dose of covid through a vaccine to build an immune response is worse than getting a larger dose of the virus when catching it.

Side effects from a vaccine is going to cause a much smaller response than if you caught it naturally obviously.

Is disagreeing with someone 'shouting them down' now?

I do find that people who haven’t been vaccinated are very careful with whom they tell though. A lot would rather skirt the awkward conversation and arguments.

How are you informing yourself about the risks to you and your unborn child?

Are you reading the scientific research? Or are you using social media/other news sources? Are you sure that these are good sources of information?

As someone who trusts science, please get the vaccine. The risks of the vaccine do not compare to the risks of covid for pregnant women.

Here is a meta analysis of vaccine outcomes
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9090726/

There is a lot of studies on risks of having covid during pregnancy.

This is you choice. You should inform yourself with the right sort of information (peer reviewed studies in reputable journals or newspaper articles citing that sort of evidence). Please don’t trust vaccine hesitancy in threads like this and other social media.

I didn't realise there was a swine flu vaccine. I will never forget having swine flu. Nothing has ever been as bad as that..I couldn't move the fevers were horrific! Covid was a walk in the park in comparison. I do wonder how bad it could have got if I hadn't got the vaccines.

I’ve been very grateful for all 6 of mine.

Very happy DD and me had none.Despite the most horrendous pressure to do so.

The vaccines aren’t live vaccines though?

So they don’t give you a small dose.

Well, obviously not, I'm not a monster, but I'm thinking of people who refuse because of some kind of tin-foil-hat nonsense they read on Facebook, or because 'they feel all right, what the problem?'

There is actually another option…. Actual empirical studies. Science. The study of large cohorts of persons to understand the virus, how it effects us, how it responds to vaccination etc etc etc.

Thankfully we don’t have to rely on “me and my friends were grand” or “me and my friends were not”. That’s the whole point of empirical studies….

But sadly, there has been a turn away from science in the last 3 yrs. all the studies are there. There are really great sites like The Conversation, which brings academic and scientific work to the general population. But a lot of people don’t really try and weed out mis information from trustworthy data.

Same for us with ttc. My periods had been perfect since I was aged 12. Always regular and precise always the same. First jab made me have a heavy period on day 10 (I have a 30 day cycles) then I bled every 20 days heavily and became anaemic. After second jab again had a period start that day (on cycle day 8??!!) and ever since it’s been horrendous

No regrets re my first two, but I had Moderna for the booster and had awful flu like symptoms for two weeks afterwards (could be a coincidence I suppose) so I haven't had another booster. Had covid in the meantime and my vaccine reaction was definitely worse!

The vaccines aren’t live vaccines though?

Exactly!
So how can they be more dangerous than covid?

They act like you’re getting a small dose of covid so the body can think it’s had it and build up some immunity.

If you catch covid you will also build up some immunity.
But as it mutates you can’t guarantee that you won’t ever get it again.

I don’t understand the argument that the vaccine is more dangerous than covid.
Surely you either think covid is dangerous or you don’t.

Absolutely

I've had three, I should have had a fourth but have been caught up caring for others. a
The first was so horrible I don't want to go through that again while others need me.

You say "obviously not" but I don't know you, so when you post something like that, it does sound like you are the person who says "oh, it must be unrelated to the vaccine, just keep having it" - which is what my doctor said initially.

And yes ,I'm glad I had the vaccinations I've had.