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?

This is not the OPs first post... they just want an argument!

Yes! Of course!! I absolutely would get it again.

Hell, yes. With my list of comorbidities, without the jab I had a nearly 10% predicted mortality risk with the original variant.

So 1 very loud person ranted on about the vaccine and the rest smiled and nodded? Tbh I might do the same, I hate arguments and wouldn't want to try and out-shout a loud bloke with an opinion on a social occasion. But my views wouldn't be his. I've had all the vaccines and will go on doing so. I've also had Covid twice, once before any vaccines and once 8 months after the first. And I work in a hospital, we've got another little wave happening now. The China situation where vaccine cover is very poor is not one id want to be in.

So do we, if asked, we're vaccinated.

I wonder if the people badly affected by the jab are the same group would would have been badly affected (or died) from the virus?

I suppose if they had covid, with no problem before having the vaccine, then the vaccine reacted badly with them, that's a clue?
Anyone unvaccinated, had covid worse the second time?

In answer to your question OP, yes I would have the vaccine again.

You would rethink your friendship group based on their answers to a hypothetical scenario that is 100% impossible anyway?

Why is any question about the vaccine (or people having it) seen as some anti-vax agenda?

OP just extended a dinner party question to MN. Hardly "anti-vax".

Yes. Didn't have any lasting or serious side effects. I got covid a year after my 3rd jab. Was very mild. I didn't catch it 6 months previously when the rest of my family (1 fully vax'd, 1 had 1 jab, 1 not jabbed) had it. I think the jabs probably prevented me from catching it earlier and made my symptoms milder than otherwise.

Do I worry about long term unknown side effects? No. I don't about any of the other vaccinations I've had or medical treatment I've received either. We have to make choices with information available to us at the time.

Yes. Your erudite friends cannot deny the impact it had on the death rate. Also, currently feeling like shit with this awful cold that's going round, and am extremely glad to be at much less risk of getting covid too!

Not sure. I'm CEV so have had 5 but I've felt worse having the boosters than I did having covid (twice).

Not had any of the jabs and never had covid and don't regret not having them. my cousin had an horrendous reaction to her first jab which frightened me to be honest. she never had anymore as was too scared. Another friend was left with muscular damage to her arm after the jab which required physio but maybe that could have happened with any jab. The cases of covid I've seen in healthy people have been incredibly mild so no need for vaccines unless your high risk. The vaccines don't stop the spread of covid anyway.

Holy Moly!? So if you knew lots of people who smoked, but had never had cancer, and some non smoker cancer patients; would you start smoking to avoid cancer?

The level of reasoning in this thread. Just makes me think that there’s loads of bots and vested interests here. I trust the intellect of the average mn’er to be higher than this.

@Athenen0ctua what health issues have some people that had the jab had? Curious to see if it’s similar to myself.

If I could go back I wouldn't have had it whilst I was breastfeeding, would have waited until after.

Good point, you wouldn't know if someone hadn't had it if they didn't say so.

I had three vaccines and I'm not really sure what to make of it all.

I had awful side effects from all three vaccines.

Within hours of each vaccine I started with constant vomiting for 48 hours, couldn't keep any food or drink down, whole body aches meaning I couldn't even lift my head from my pillow at its worst, couldn't lift my arm at all due to the injection area being so painful, dizziness, all the usual flu symptoms really. It was horrendous. Then 48 hours later it all stopped.

Since the last vaccine I have had covid twice and been quite unwell, not as bad as the vaccine side effects, but enough to be unable to go to work.

So I don't know. The vaccine maybe prevented me from getting seriously ill but didn't stop me from catching it. But the side effects were so bad I do feel apprehensive about having any more.

No. I feel like I was coerced into having the ones I did. I don't think as a healthy person in my 40s the benefits outweighed the risks. I acknowledge the risk from the jab was tiny, but so is my risk from COVID. It was an amazing achievement to produce it so quickly, and I am general very pro vax. It has undoubtedly save many lives, but has also cost lives and caused injuries.

Yes. I will also have any future booster that I'm offered on top of all the boosters I've had.

I haven't had covid and I'm sure that is due to my vax status.

Definitely and will have further boosters if advised to do so by by NHS staff.

I'm in my 50s and didn't have any childhood vaccinations (because my mum's an attention seeking nutter) . I got sick with everything going and nearly died from measles. I had several weeks in hospital apparently (I'm was too young to remember) and was dogged will illness my whole childhood afterwards. I have every jab I can now.

Had 3 and wouldn’t change a thing. Was very grateful for having had those when I had covid and felt like crap for a week. Can’t imagine anyone regrets having them?!

No

Yes without a doubt.

Vaccines (and of course antibiotics) are one of the greatest things to have ever been created and the world would be a much different place without them.

I think many people (covid deniers) forget how amazing the vaccine is and without it the situation would have been much worse.

Yes, and have had 6
Sat here with covid now and feeling pretty awful so wouldn't like to have had it without the vaccine

I haven't had it.
Though I have seen vaccine related injury first hand (not the covid jab) and no amount of compensation makes up for it. I am not typically anti-vax and have had others but I didn't like the idea of having to have a dose every 6 months when it doesn't prevent transmission.
I am being encouraged to have jabs now I am pregnant. (Flu, whooping cough and covid) I will have the whooping cough jab as I did previously. Flu jab perhaps but I doubt I will have the covid jab. Especially whilst pregnant. I just don't trust it