Covid Vaccination Opinion

It's the idiots who must have their holidays abroad who I blame.
Our airports have never fully shut down for fear of losing money----which this is what it's all been about, LOSS. So what ?

And look what's happened !

EllanVannin

It's the idiots who must have their holidays abroad who I blame.
Our airports have never fully shut down for fear of losing money----which this is what it's all been about, LOSS. So what ?

And look what's happened !

?. Yes, pull up the drawbridge if you don’t like them, if they’re’ nice’, there’s no risk, so leave it down!! Completely mad!

I understand anti-vaxxers, by which I mean I know they are generally conspiracy theorists and immune to reason.

I do not understand the ''I really wish I understood the point of the vaccine then' ers. I mean surely they have at least heard or read of the devastating and fatal epidemics of polio and measles that we used to have before universal vaccination against those diseases, but have no more. or know that small pox has been wiped out completely by the universal use of vaccine. Why should a COVID vaccine do other than exactly the same thing, reduce the incidence of the disease and make any case of it mild. No vaccine totally stops you getting a disease, but it certainly stops you getting it badly.

Despite vaccination one of my children had measles and both had whooping cough, The measles consisted of a temperature for a few days and a rash in the mouth for a similar period, With whooping cough one coughed and was sick - once and the other whooped - once.

Remembering these diseases from childhood, My sister missed a terms school with whooping cough and a close friend has damaged lungs and has had a lifetime of respiratory infections as the result of the same disease in childhood.

How can anyone faced with several hundred years of evidence of the effectiveness of vaccines in limiting death and disablement from a range of diseases that for thousands of years had brought fear into every parents heart when they had a child diagnosed with those diseases say 'I really wish I understood the point of the vaccine then' of the (COVID) vaccine.

By the way, my hairdresser wears mask and vizor.

MOnica it's the untestedness of the covid vaccine that bothers me. The fact that the drug companies are immune from any prosecution that really bothers me

Well said Foxie48. I hope I would have the sense to do the same. I’d certainly not go back and say why. I told my DH, but he said “You were so desperate for a haircut you would’ve gone if she’d been in the nude!”

Thank you all for taking the time to respond, I appreciate it.
Monica, your post struck a chord because my own daughter initially was very worried about having a vaccine due to it being relatively new. I had the conversation with her regarding vaccines we had in childhood that have saved many lives, happily this changed her views and she has had her first vaccine and due her 2nd dose next week. It gave me food for thought that her age group (early 40's) had different views from a generation that remember when people were left severely disabled or died from what we now think of as simple childhood illness.

Biscuitmuncher The vaccine is not untested. All the COVID vaccines in use in the UK have been through all the same testing procedures that every other vaccine and medication on the market has to go through to get approval for use in this country.

Of course, the vaccine has been developed faster and the testing completed more quickly than normal, there was a pandemic on that was killing tens of thousands. It does not mean that corners were cut, testing was limited. There have been precedents. When there was an outbreak of Ebola in Sierra Leone, about a decade ago, they produced a safe vaccine within a year. Much was learnt from that. Technology has come on leaps and bounds and the methods of developing and making vaccines for COVIDuses methods that were not available when the ebola vaccine was developed.

DH was part of just one cohort of 25,000 who volunteered to test the AZ vaccine, I think his test was Phase 3. He is 77, overweight, has Type 2 diabetes in remisssion and high blood pressure. previous Previous phases tested the vaccine on young healthy volunteers, Phase 3 looked at people who were over 50 or had health problems.

The vaccine was tested on possibly as many as 50,000 people plus, all volunteers, and including those with medical problems.

What is the evidence that drug companies are immune from prosecution. Such companies have been prosecuted and bankrupted before when releasing drugs that were nor fully tested. Every vaccine has side effects and makes some people ill. I had no side effects from COVID, but when as a teenager I had the BCG for tb, I had a festering sore on my arm for over 6 months. I am allergic to penicillin, as are many others, but compared with the millions of lives it has saved.

No medication or vaccine is 100% effective or does not cause problems for a few people, but compared with the millions who have died from COVID for a lack of a vaccination

Biscuitmuncher

MOnica it's the untestedness of the covid vaccine that bothers me. The fact that the drug companies are immune from any prosecution that really bothers me

But it's not untested and millions and millions of people have now been vaccinated. On a risk based analysis, you are much safer being vaccinated than you are having Covid 19. It was developed quickly because governments put billions of pounds into research programmes that were already working on vaccinations for corona type viruses to enable them to crack on and get a properly tested and effective vaccine. If you mean we don't know if the vaccines will affect people's health in the future, say 5 years down the line, then that's true but there's no reason to believe that it will be different to any other vaccination. what we do know though, is that some people who have Covid can suffer very long term debilitating illness (long covid). I hope you change your mind and get vaccinated.