Covid booster

Its not about disagreeing, it's about the misinformation which is being spread and trying to influence posters, which concerns me.
If someone doesn't wish to have vaccinations, that is their business. I really don't care.
However, I will be not influenced by some of the nonsense posted on this thread.

Furthermore, to clarify, I personally am talking about Covid antivaxxers in particular, as opposed to antivaxxers in general.
You know exactly what is meant on this thread Primrose.

The case of the doctor who died is very sad. He was very young, only 32, and he had the Astra Zeneca jab. Unfortunately it was found that young people shouldn’t have the Astra Zeneca vaccine because a tiny, but significant, number of young people developed blood clots and some of those did die, although the majority recovered with treatment. Astra Zeneca is no longer given to young people because of these unfortunate, but rare, side effects.
We need to remember that all medications carry side effects. There is no medication yet that has not caused side effects, sometimes serious, to some people. However the benefits that vaccinations/medications have brought to society have been immeasurable and they have saved far more lives than they have killed.

Primrose53

I wish some on here would stop calling people who disagree with them “anti vaxxers”.

I am not anti vax. My kids had all theirs at the appropriate age and I have had all mine including flu jab. I just don’t want any more covid jabs, having already had 3.

My sentiments exactly

I wish some on here would stop calling people who disagree with them “anti vaxxers”.

I am not anti vax. My kids had all theirs at the appropriate age and I have had all mine including flu jab. I just don’t want any more covid jabs, having already had 3.

We just had our Covid vaccinations this afternoon. Pfizer again, our fifth Pfizer. The best protection is said to be for the next six months and so that will cover us for our trip to New Zealand after Christmas. We’ll get our flu jabs in two or three weeks.
Thank you to the government and NHS. I appreciate that these things are available to us.

We had ours yesterday, our daughter-in-law has breast cancer so we want to protect her as much as we can. Our flu vaccination is booked for mid October. We have had pneumonia and shingles vaccinations a while ago. Now we have turned 80 we feel we should take any protection we are offered.

biglouis

I dont believe all that doctors tell me but if there is anything going free then I will grab it if i think its of value to me. I just arranged for the GP surgery to do mine as a home visit.

Here’s a doctor who died from the covid jab.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/dr-stephen-wright-death-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-b2323265.html

Maggiemaybe

^Any medication we collect from the GP has warnings of possible side effects, minor or serious. With covid jabs you get no such instructions.^

What nonsense. We had our jab this week and we were given two leaflets, each with four full pages of information. One from the NHS about the Autumn programme in general, the other specific to the vaccine we had, and giving full details of every known side effect, including how common, or not, each one was.

It’s entirely up to you whether you have the vaccine, but why are you spreading misinformation?

It’s most definitely NOT misinformation. All we ever got was a small card with the jab date and jab type which we then took to have the next 2 recorded.

Had my Covid a week ago and flu jab tomorrow, I will grab anything offered. My partner has end of life cancer so really no brainer. I had no affects from the Covid in section at all, did not even feel the needle go in, queued only 2 minutes and done. What is there not to like.

I’ve just read through a little more, my daughter (39) and her husband (42) would testify that this is no ‘mild cold’. They are for a healthy people, great diets and very physically fit. Both have been )daughter still
Is) extremely unwell. Unable to care for the children and look horrendous. Make no mistake, this variant is horrible.

songstress60

I will NOT have any more Covid jabs. Each time I have the jab I am in bed for 2 or 3 days as it makes me so ill. Covid has mutated now, so it's just like a cold. Anyone who is afraid let them stay inside, and let the rest of us have a normal life. No more isolation or lockdowns. Covid was NO accident. I think the lockdowns and self-isolation was an affront to civil liberties

No no no! Covid can never be just like a cold!

Covid can cause long-term and permanent organ damage which colds and flu do not. Just about any organ in the body can be infected and damaged.

Thank goodness for the sensible posters on here!

I do hope none of the anti vaxxers and/or those who think it is just like a cold become seriously ill and regret their foolishness choices.

Thanks for all the comments on the pneumonia jab. It’s weird I haven’t been offered it especially since I had the illness this year. I’ll make enquiries. I had my Covid booster today. I can’t believe the scaremongering going on in the thread.

No. Had mine last week. Sore arm overnight, no other side effects

I am a ward volunteer in a large hospital and two of our four side wards are currently in isolation due to Covid. There are six beds in each. Its very much still a threat and taken very seriously. All the patients on the infected side wards are tested and if positive they have to stay in place with no visitors until they test negative. A very unpleasant scenario for them. None of us know if we might end up in hospital due to an accident or sudden onset condition and the last thing we need in that scenario is the worry of infection, or indeed the illness itself on top of whatever caused us to be there in the first place. I think its so important to continue with any vaccinations offered to protect ourselves and others.

How can people believe that vaccination 'Doesn't work' when the facts are there? A neighbour loudly declared she wouldn't be vaccinated, and we were all fools. She then caught it, was off work for almost a year, has kidney and heart damage and her voice is badly affected. Us fools certainly didn't feel like gloating; she is a kind woman and we all felt a great deal of sympathy for her - stubborness and ignorance have wrecked her health.

I wasn't keen on having another one but a few weeks ago I caught Covid, it led to a chest infection and then pneumonia. I've even had the pneumonia vaccine but the doctor said if you get covid it can still lead to pneumonia. My husband who is 10 years older than me had the over 75's booster a few months ago and he wasn't anything like as poorly as me. So I will definitely be having a booster in a month or so.

Had flu jab last week and Covid jab yesterday ...bit of a sore arm for a day with both of them but that's all .
Going on holiday Tuesday thought it good idea to get
Protection before I get on the plane .

I will NOT have any more Covid jabs. Each time I have the jab I am in bed for 2 or 3 days as it makes me so ill. Covid has mutated now, so it's just like a cold. Anyone who is afraid let them stay inside, and let the rest of us have a normal life. No more isolation or lockdowns. Covid was NO accident. I think the lockdowns and self-isolation was an affront to civil liberties

Why ever not?

I and my husband have had both on separate days of the last week and both feel better for having done so. Covid is still around in emerging forms and we had our Christmas ruined 4 -odd years ago when we both succumbed to 'flu one Christmas eve. I never want to experience anything like that again so will keep taking the vaccines as they arrive.

Any medication we collect from the GP has warnings of possible side effects, minor or serious. With covid jabs you get no such instructions.

What nonsense. We had our jab this week and we were given two leaflets, each with four full pages of information. One from the NHS about the Autumn programme in general, the other specific to the vaccine we had, and giving full details of every known side effect, including how common, or not, each one was.

It’s entirely up to you whether you have the vaccine, but why are you spreading misinformation?

I would have the booster if I could but this year I don't qualify. My DH had his yesterday. I paid for my flu jab last week, but this option isn't available for the covid jab.

Well said, a definite load of Tosh! I’m surprised that such poorly informed views exist in this forum.

Sorry, undines but you are spouting total rubbish.