The vaccine

[Mrs Anxious]

We went to Ashton Gate stadium and it was Astra Zeneca, I’m rebooked for Saturday but I honestly don’t think I will take it if it’s AZ again I’m just too scared... we only booked Ashton gate as were of the understanding it was Moderna

[Mrs Anxious]

Sorry I was replying to @mark1974 not sure what I’m doing it seems!

[Lencoboy]

We went to Ashton Gate stadium and it was Astra Zeneca, I’m rebooked for Saturday but I honestly don’t think I will take it if it’s AZ again I’m just too scared... we only booked Ashton gate as were of the understanding it was Moderna

Well the BBC don't seem to be making such a big deal out of OAZ and blood clots of late, at least not in this country, anyway.

[dorabella]

Anyone decided not to go for a vaccine of any type? I've been reading the MHRA Yellow Card reports and they make for very unsettling reading.

Some disturbing reported effects on the MHRA site and it does make one wonder whether it is worth being effectively part of a mass clinical trial experiment (and no I am neither a covidiot or a covid denier - I just do my research and am appalled at what I have seen and read .... and not widely reported by any health authority).

[pulisa]

Read the Yellow Card reports for any drug-including paracetamol-and they make for very unsettling reading. Including antidepressants.

All vaccines have risks. It's a risk not to be vaccinated too. I don't agree with this being called a mass clinical trial experiment though.

[Lencoboy]

Read the Yellow Card reports for any drug-including paracetamol-and they make for very unsettling reading. Including antidepressants.

All vaccines have risks. It's a risk not to be vaccinated too. I don't agree with this being called a mass clinical trial experiment though.

Correct. All meds carry some kind of risk, but we don't usually tend to bat an eyelid over most of them.

Like I've said before, everyday activities carry risks of some sort, like I could get run over by a bus tomorrow whilst walking from the train station to my day centre (or vice versa), or I could fall head first down the stairs, get an electric shock, get bitten by a mad stray dog, etc, but I'm not going to bed tonight worried sick in case any of those things might happen, it's pointless.

[Noivous]

Correct. All meds carry some kind of risk, but we don't usually tend to bat an eyelid over most of them.

Like I've said before, everyday activities carry risks of some sort, like I could get run over by a bus tomorrow whilst walking from the train station to my day centre (or vice versa), or I could fall head first down the stairs, get an electric shock, get bitten by a mad stray dog, etc, but I'm not going to bed tonight worried sick in case any of those things might happen, it's pointless.

That's pretty much the same exact reason I don't worry about getting a virus with a 99.7% survival rate Lenso. It's pointless.

[spectrum123]

That's pretty much the same exact reason I don't worry about getting a virus with a 99.7% survival rate Lenso. It's pointless.

You might survive, but the person you give it to might not. But I'm alright jack attitude probably helped to get us in the mess were in now.

[Fishmanpa]

You might survive, but the person you give it to might not. But I'm alright jack attitude probably helped to get us in the mess were in now.

In the 50's, people and children were in iron lung wards in hospitals all over the world due to the Polio virus. People lined up for the vaccine and with all intents and purposes, we've eradicated it. It's the lax attitudes, politics and belief in conspiracy theories that are keeping us in this mess. At least, being vaccinated, I'm 95% protected at this point and if I'm one of the 5% that get it, I stand a much better chance of survival as the virus has a far less chance of affecting me as severely as an unvaccinated person.

In the mean time, wear a mask (even after vaccinated, in public places), social distance and get the vaccine! Pay no attention to the "Q's" of the world, for they no not what they are saying.....

FMP

[MyNameIsTerry]

That's pretty much the same exact reason I don't worry about getting a virus with a 99.7% survival rate Lenso. It's pointless.

Same here, N. I'm lower risk, especially now my asthma no longer requires treatment after nearly 40 years of meds, and unless I'm very unlucky it may just be a shitty couple of weeks if I caught it. I've done pneumonia on a ventilator after a middle of the night trip in an ambulance and the 2 months of recovery afterwards. With asthma just getting the common cold can mean a week off work with a chest infection on antibiotics and steroids.

To be honest, N, I'd take that experience over years of an anxiety disorder.

But for me vaccination is crucial in protecting loved ones. Not me. It's crucial to those who are at risk or those who aren't who are very unlucky. It's about getting existing patients back into treatment, getting the economy moving again so less suffer from financial hardship to depression & self harm.

I will get vaccinated for those reasons even though I don't think of covid as some black death. It's important to ensure we view it rationally and not get sucked into fear courtesy of 24/7 rolling news who revel in it as much as a weapons manufacturer loves a good long war.