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.

you sound really pleasant and not at all irrationally nasty.
Enjoy the rest of your day

If you know anyone who is studying philosophy or logic, then show them this thread as prime example of faulty generalisation, the fallacy of the lonely fact or the fallacy of proof by example.

As for the complete dismissal by some posters of elderly and immunocompromised people, they are other people's parents, spouses, partners, siblings, etc, even if you don't think their lives are important. Even if you, yourself don't know any senior or immunocomprised people (which in itself is strange) the perfectly healthy person you might have infected, who also dismissed it as a sniffle, might well engage with one.

Nothing in health protection is binary, it isn't work or not work, it is about reducing risk.

I’ve decided not to have the flu or Covid vaccines this time; I’ve done some reading on efficacy and decided I don’t want annual vaccinations. I’m less likely to catch flu now; the Covid vaccine does not prevent spread and the effect wears off fast after a month with no guarantee that it’s safe.

You’re the one who couldn’t manage any empathy for posters who were telling you their friends and relatives had died.
Nothing nasty about querying your made up information.

Are you a scientist?

do you believe the covid injections are beneficial overall to the vast majority of the population?

That’s a no then.

Ah, so you weren’t dead then? That’s good. Sounds like without the vaccine you’d have been very poorly indeed.

Yes

unexpected answer to my question but always good to see people are open to changing their minds

These threads serve no purpose really. They always end up with arguments and insults.

Op, just trust your own judgement.
You know your health.

If you think the possible benefits outweigh the possible negatives, then have the booster.

If you don't, then don't.

The question was whether you are a scientist? The poster correctly assumed that you aren’t

So it’s still a no then?

My anecdotal experience was the opposite of @Notmoog.

I had it twice pre vaccine and was very very poorly. Had it twice after and it was mild so for me worth it. Never got boosters though and don't seem to have noticed having it since so hopefully my immune system recognises it now!!

My sister in laws Dad died from it pre vaccines, no health conditions and mid 50s so we were all willing to take them even though it was scary.

Don't know anyone who had any side effects. It's all just anecdotal though so who knows on a population level I'll have ti trust other people studying it 🤷🏻‍♀️

you know what, there's no pojnt in answering.
I worked for about 12 years in drug development so pretty relevant but you'll no doubt not believe me so there's no point.

I take it all the people pro the covid vaccines are scientists if that's the only measure of being allowed an opinion?

What's quite interesting on these threads is the pro covid vaccine people are invariably nastier than the sceptics.
why would you assume someone is thick because they are hesitant or downright distrustful of a new vaccine which was rolled out very quickly ( I know, previous research etc, etc........).
Why are you so insecure in your decision that you have to resort to personal insults,

How did the hospital staff have time to do Tik Tok dances if the hospitals were overwhelmed? I was waiting to get a procedure done in a hospital in Limerick and it was postponed for months yet the staff were able to do a Tik Tok dance during that time and post it on social media.

Are you actively working in the field of studying side effects and the risk/ benefit ratio of the covid injections? Do you have any links to evidence to back up what you are claiming about the vaccines?

You're not wrong with that, anyway 😂

You expected them to work 24/7?

So you believe those Tik Tok dances happened when they were finished work? Absolute nonsense.

they were doing the dances during their shifts.
that's why they were wearing uniform and doing it in a hospital.
Oh, and they were a lot more polished than a snatched 10 minutes at break would have achieved

And you know they were on shift? Hospital staff often wear their uniforms on and off shift travelling to and from home.

Well I beat you there as I have over 20 q years experience in the same field. And your answer is still a no then

And your evidence? DH worked in three hospitals at the height of the pandemic - no one did anything on shift other than fight to keep patients alive.