@Blueflag22 I'm proud because I DECIDE what I put in my body and yes there are doctors and medical professional saying that this vaccine was no where need tested long term, vaccines take a minimum of 7 years.
As far as I'm aware, we are all able to decide what we do or don't put in our body. What you weren't free to do was keep doing your particular job if you weren't jabbed. I disagreed with that at the time and still do, it struck me as crazy that, in professions where the UK doesn't have enough doctors, nurses, care workers, the govt was willing to reduce those numbers further, because they must have known some people would refuse to be vaccinated. Plus the elderly were the first to be vaccinated, although one must make allowances that the immune system of elderly people can be too weak to give a good response to vaccination.
I think the issue is, the world was confronted with a new virus, which was serious enough to be killing people, and something needed to be done, quickly. Humanity is fortunate now to have drugs, treatments and the ability to create vaccines, which is something it did not have for past pandemics going back centuries. Back then, you took your chances and there wasn't much you could do. Now we can. So of course, there was a tremendous rush to develop vaccines (based on existing technology, and mRNA technology already existed) and also to search for potential treatments. As it was, this was still going to take some time and so in the interim governments were faced with a choice. Do we let this tear through our populations or do we try to contain it, do we lockdown the public, if so for how long? Do we close our borders?
Then vaccines were ready, and yes it was done quickly, thanks to the incredible efforts of scientists around the globe. There was no time though to wait for 'long term testing'. What would you do if you were in charge? Would you say, we have developed a vaccine but we must wait, say, 7 years before we can be sure it can be used? How do you think the population would react to that? They'd scream they were being denied treatment!
As I see it, there is always a cost to pandemics, be it death from the virus itself, or the effects of measures used to try to contain it, such as lockdowns. Humanity cannot expect to not experience any of these. It is the cost of being human. The next pandemic will bring another new challenge, because that virus will differ from SARS-CoV-2. Hopefully we have learned from this experience but people are still going to argue and complain about what is/isn't done. There are no easy answers.
Yes you have every right to say no to being vaccinated, but there are going to be consequences to that, as there are to every other decision you make in life. I didn't agree with people losing their jobs over it, I believe the govt made a poor decision. They made quite a few poor decisions, including not being properly prepared for a pandemic!