Vaccinations from next week

This is a happy day!! I am classed as extremely vulnerable due to severe COPD and various other health problems. I will willingly have any vaccine that is offered to me. I do think however think that a great many people are afraid of the vaccine. Should we perhaps have a campaign of public information broadcasts to reassure people?

Please be gentle with me as I've never ventured opinions on Gransnet before! I'm really happy about the vaccine and will have it as soon as I can. Maybe this is the wrong thread, but here goes: My father, born in Australia in 1928, remembers this from junior school: "Cover every cough and sneeze, otherwise you'll spread disease". This attitude shaped my upbringing: we covered coughs, sneezes, yawns. We also washed our hands before eating. Now in my 50's and living in the UK I routinely see people my age and older not bothering with these hygiene practices. It drives me mad! Hopefully Covid 19 will remind us all to follow good hygiene, myself included!

Welcome Christmaspudding

Best Christmas present ever ! Glad I am an “oldie” so I shouldn't have to wait too long for my injection. The sooner we all have it, the sooner life will return to normal

I’m champing at the bit! I’m extremely clinically vulnerable and I can’t wait for the vaccinations. Hurray and hallelujah I’ll get my life back ??????

I am 70 years old and will not hesitate to have the vaccine. However, if I was of child-bearng age, I would have to think carefully.

Alegrias2

Welcome Christmaspudding

thank you Alegrias2

25Avalon

Yes really good news. The only but I have is that I don’t fancy going to a mass vaccination centre. Will us oldies be able to go to GP’s surgery?

When I was at my surgery the other day I was told they wouldn't be able to manage giving the vaccine at the surgery as, apparently, you have to wait 20 minutes after you have had the jab to see you are all right - there's not enough space in a lot of surgeries to be able to do that and maintain social distancing.

If all vaccines had been doubted then the human race would have been wiped out long ago so we would not have this problem now. When I was very young I was taken by our school to see a friend who had not been vaccinated against Polio & was in an iron lung. Horrendous thing to see as she was very ill & we were supposed to cheer her up. Terrified most of us until we were reminded that we had all had our Polio vaccine. So thinking back on that, ok this has been pushed through fast but has still had more stringent tests than those when I was younger. So I will be waiting with rolled up sleeve when I am called even though my son has doubts. Maybe it is an age thing. Those of us older have seen the advances over the years to help us make a decision.

'Coughs and sneezes spread diseases' was the one I grew up with christmaspudding I don't recall one for washing hands when you got home or before meals but we could definitely do with a few especially for the amount I used to see leaving the public toilets without bothering.

I can hardly dare to believe we might actually be on the road to recovery, for want of a better phrase. I'll be in the queue as soon as I'm called up, Doing it for myself, for everyone I can't wait to meet, and for the stranger I pass in the street.

I am reserving my judgement at the moment : I am completely of the opinion of Ellavannin: who posted at the beginning of the thread that she will wait and see some of the first people vaccinated.
Also like EllaVannin I needed high blood pressure medication, after being tried with four different medications which had an adverse effect on my body to what the doctors wanted to achieve they finally found one that was okay and started to work.
I shall wait and see what happens.

Alegrias I most certainly do have hope because it's very likely that lives will be saved, which to me is the main priority.

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In the words of the very articulate FannyCornfirth, shoo

Or as they say here in Scotland, Away with you woman

Ginnytonic5

For all of you rushing to get the vaccines just remember 2 things ..it will not prevent you from getting it completely, it may stop you getting it as severe ..but then the virus as all flu viruses can mutate so render it useless anyhow! Secondly Pfizer ( who incidentally have many multi million pound lawsuits outstanding ) have been granted immunity by the Government against lawsuits in the U.K. for adverse reaction to this drug ..ask yourself why ?

Yet again - the coronavirus is NOT a flu virus, it is (guess what?) a CORONAVIRUS. I can't be bothered to comment on the rest of your post.

I have recently bought a roll of recycled aluminium foil from Natural Collection. If any of the tinfoil hat brigade, of whom we seem to have a few, would like to renew their headgear, I can recommend it as good strong foil, and you can do your bit to help the planet at the same time.

It would be over the top to make immunisations of any kind compulsory, but if we need a certificate to travel or to enter public spaces, fair enough. We look forward to getting our certificates in due course. Our teacher DS has had the virus and I am still hoping that he will have no long term effects, and that the other family members, particularly the teachers, stay free of it. Roll on the vaccine(s)!

Good news, and a good thread, Alegrias2!

Suzey

Takes on average ten years for a new vaccine to be made safe.. No way will I have this

And if you should contract COVID will you also refuse treatment?

“ Before I outline some of the possible consequences of this, I feel it is important that you know this is not a vaccine: it is genetic engineering. This is the greatest mass experiment in human genetic engineering that has ever been carried out.”
????????

Alegrias2

In the words of the very articulate FannyCornfirth, shoo

Or as they say here in Scotland, ^Away with you woman^

I agree with you in that sentiment.

I sometimes wonder if these conspiracy theorists even know what DNA is. (sigh)

... or genetic engineering.

emperorsin

I'll wait and see what kind of basket cases come out of these experiments before I'll be letting them near me with some poorly tested vaccine. I wanted to be a unicorn when I was small but I don't want to be a Guinee pig now I'm older.

It’ll be easy for you to recognise the basket cases, given that adage “takes one to know one”
And it is “guinea “ pig by the way, which I wouldn’t have considered mentioning had your post contained a grain of sense.

I can't wait, bring it on, a light at the end of a very long and very dark tunnel in my humble

I sometimes wonder if these conspiracy theorists even know what DNA is. (sigh)

It sounds a bit like RNA growstuff, so that's close enough

EU people see the UK as being the Guinea pigs.

Well I've got both sleeves up just in case! Can hardly wait for my vaccination but I'm quite low down in the queue.

Alegrias2

^I sometimes wonder if these conspiracy theorists even know what DNA is. (sigh)^

It sounds a bit like RNA growstuff, so that's close enough

I guess when they grow a second head and horns, they can say "I told you so".