COVID vaccine? Does it do anything?

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I jumped at getting the COVID vaccines when they came out and I got all the vaccines that I was eligible for to date except for this year.

I got COVID in the summer time and I wasn't able to get the vaccine this winter. My GP recommended a 4 month wait.

It's just I got COVID twice. Once in 2022 and I had that bad too. I wasn't hospitalised but still I was ill with fever, body aches, headaches and coughs for over a week. I was rushed back to work prepaturely when I still wasn't 100% better.

I got COVID this summer too. I was floored with it.

A lot of people were floored with it this summer. Even though we got the COVID vaccines.

It's just I got a reminder text to book the vaccine today and I just don't know.

I am not anti vaccine but what is the point of the vaccine when youre still going to get exposed and become ill to this anyways?

I got flu in 2004 or 2005 and I was getting flu vaccine because of my work from about 2008 and I never had flue since 04/05. The flu vaccine works. But I am questioning the COVID vaccine? What is the point of going out of my way to travel to an establishment to get jabbed and sore for a few days and if I am exposed to COVID, I am likely still going to get it.

Do you have any evidence or just your anecdotal opinion

So you don't know, or are relying on some random Internet figure!

But you said you’d never had covid.

I had the flu vaccine in 2011 as I was talked into it while pregnant. Prior to that, it was 1998.

Haven't had a vaccine since and I'm fine!

Were the deaths 'with Covid' or 'of Covid?'

A friend's relative died of cancer (inevitable and expected), but tested positive for Covid. That, of course, was a Covid death. Get the stats up....

I had the first vaccines but still got ill with covid so decided after that I wouldnt get them. Got covid in January and was wiped out for 6 months, I have an auto immune illness which didnt help but it took me a long time to recover.

So this year I decided to take the vaccine. 6 of us have just been away for a UK break, 3 had the vaccine and 3 didnt. The 3 who had the vaccine have been fine but 2 of the 3 who didnt are quite unwell at the moment and the other has started feeling unwell. We dont have tests but due to the symptoms seems a lot like covid.

Ive had covid twice, once was like a really lousy cold and within a week I was good, but another as I say, wiped me out for 6 months. I cant tell which version I will get until im ill, so I took the vaccine and glad I did as I cannot cope with another 6 months of barely being able to walk to the bathroom through lack of energy.

I do also know of a teenager who since having covid, her immune system is truly awful and she catches everything and it takes ages to recover.

I know some people say about the vaccine but covid also can cause havoc on your system. The ideal would be people learning to be a bit more selective about going around others when they are ill but when you are doing your christmas shopping and people are walking past you coughing and sneezing and sounding truly awful, you realise nothing changed and people will still happily get others sick as long as they can carry on as normal. They also dont realise what may be mild for them, might not be for others, and im not just talking about covid.

Maybe we wouldnt need so many worries about get a vaccine vs risk covid if people just took a bit more personal accountability and tried as much as they could to avoid spreading germs in the first place (I get there are situations where you cant avoid going out but I very often see people out and about where they very much could)

Of Covid - no underlying health conditions. Both had massive heart attacks on arrival in hospital caused by Covid.

Unfortunately Covid exacerbated deaths of others with illnesses.

Fine or just lucky 😅

I have t had flu since 2005 and never had a flu vaccine.

@Notmoog all those side effects you mention also happen with COVID and are more likely with COVID than side effect from vaccine.

I can only speak for myself but I tend to listen to those irl who have spent their careers gaining the knowledge that they have. I’d no more take advice from a random on YouTube on how to fit a gas boiler than I would a random on YouTube about a medical issue. I’m also pretty comfortable with the knowledge that I don’t know everything.

then again I’m pretty lucky to have doctors and scientists in my social circle so can direct the questions I do have to trusted people who will do their best to offer me an unbiased opinion.

you’re making the mistake of presuming that people who have a different opinion to you don’t have as many questions as you or the wit to research to the best of their capabilities.

We don't seem to have so many people on ventilators as we did before vaccines so I assume they do some good

No I didn't

would love to see the stats. on this as we all seem to be calling stats. or it didn't happen.

Hmm. You said you assumed you’d had it. You seem to make a lot of assumptions.

hmm, you seem to not be able to understand a very simple sentence....

Ah thé new idea of “questioning things”. Except questioning things in the modern world appears to involve reading shit on the internet and being sucked in by the “wake up sheeple” brigade. Vaccines have been one of the most life changing and life saving discoveries humans have ever invented. They are incredible and have saved (and continue to save) millions and millions of lives. It makes me angry beyond measure that social media is destroying that progress and children are now dying of entirely preventable illnesses.

Hospitals were overwhelmed with covid patients on ventilators in 2020 - or was that fake news? 🙄

Hospitals kept records although they were struggling to get hold off enough ventilators at some points. What DH saw in ICU will stay with him forever.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55782716.amp

You’re the one with the complete lack of comprehension. You started off by saying that your ‘evidence’ was anecdotal. Do you actually understand what that means?

I've had all the vaccines I was eligible for (initial 2 doses plus one booster). I've had Covid twice since and have been mildly ill both times (a day of fever / feeling rough then a few days with a stuffy nose / cough). When I had it, neither DH nor the DC caught it from me.
DC have never been vaccinated. One has had Covid and was quite poorly for a couple of days with a severe headache and a temp. The other has never tested positive for it at all.
DH has also had the same jabs as me and has had Covid once (at same time as the DC who had it). He felt rough for a couple of days.

yes I do.
You seemed to take the sentence " I assume we've had to covid" and think it means " I've never had covid" so forgive me for questioning your comprehension skills

It’s impossible to reason with someone who is so thick.

don't be so hard on yourself, we all make mistakes

You’ve provided no evidence for your stupid claims. You seem to think you know better than doctors and virologists.
Like I said you can’t reason with someone who is so thick.