Tha Ulsterscot
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- Greyabbey Co. Down.
Just look at it this way, would you prefer one small needle or lots of big ones if you contract Covid. 
Covid jab - is it compulsory?
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- 200 miles N,NW of New York
Take it like it like a man
Or think of it this way if your sure you won't die anyway..... how much will it cost you to sit in bed for 2 weeks over harvest/lambing/silage. I'm 33 and fairly fit, had it 2 weeks ago and we hardly did any work for 10 days, dad had to keep away, our employee was given time off, I wasnt terribly ill and managed to do the basics but a few hours work and I was back in bed for the day, luckily all back to normal now and it happened when it was too wet to do much!!
Lincs Lass
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- north lincs
There will be tens of thousands that arent even on a GP register ,the homeless ,no fixed abode ,,the rubber dingy brigade and the alternative caravan club members ,folks that have moved recently and not re registered .
Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
The needle won't hurt a bit. Much less than a dentist's needle for instance. I gave over 200 injections yesterday, to cattle, and they hardly felt it. Indeed I suspect they only felt a little tap. I did inject myself several times over the years in my fingers doing subcutaneous. Didn't really hurt apart from once when I actually injected my finger with some Salmonella vaccine that didn't agree with me at all. By the third day it had swollen up red and felt like someone was putting a nail in my finger with a two pound hammer.
That hasn't put me off having proper injections though and I had the flu one last Autumn and will get the Covid jabs as soon as I possibly can.
If the bug mutates and this vaccine becomes ineffective against the mutant, no doubt they will reformulate the vaccine to be effective again. In which case I'll go get another vaccination.
The alternative is possibly, indeed probably at my age, quite a nasty death. I'll take the needle thanks!
That hasn't put me off having proper injections though and I had the flu one last Autumn and will get the Covid jabs as soon as I possibly can.
If the bug mutates and this vaccine becomes ineffective against the mutant, no doubt they will reformulate the vaccine to be effective again. In which case I'll go get another vaccination.
The alternative is possibly, indeed probably at my age, quite a nasty death. I'll take the needle thanks!
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- Scottish Highlands
I had the vaccination recently and hardly felt a thing. I was advised to sit in the car for 15 minutes after but no symptoms so waited five minutes and then drove home. If we want to rid the planet of this scourge, it's crazy not to take it. If not for ourselves then for the rest of humanity.
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- Owaka, New Zealand
Yes, and be back in a decade, wearing a new hat
The part that irks me a little, is that they call something "a vaccine" because people have been vaccinated for donkey's
they know vaccines
they know how they work and likely have an opinion about them
but these "vaccines" are mRNA tools, not vaccine, which makes me ask why this is differentiation isn't made more clear to the public rolling up their sleeves for it
livestock 1
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Yes this is where I am with this one too. Not happy about how it works.Yes, and be back in a decade, wearing a new hat
The part that irks me a little, is that they call something "a vaccine" because people have been vaccinated for donkey's
they know vaccines
they know how they work and likely have an opinion about them
but these "vaccines" are mRNA tools, not vaccine, which makes me ask why this is differentiation isn't made more clear to the public rolling up their sleeves for it
If it was just me that was effected I wouldn’t have it
3 kids wife family 3 old ones in the loop who wife looks after looking like I’m go to do it for the team
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- Owaka, New Zealand
Bogweevil
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Common cold coronaviruses moved into human populations from animals in the 1890s and still circulate today, so COVID 19 could well circulate for many years, require booster vaccinations, re-designed vaccines and track and trace indefinitely but with a population largely immune or partially immune won't cause epidemics.
You could say vaccine refuseniks are free-loading on people who do get vaccinated and limit the potential spread of the virus. However I forgive them, these are scary times.
The mRNA vaccine holds no terrors for me, the DNA strands are mere!y read by your own cell machinery to elicit antigens and thus an immune response. Most people will get an AS vaccine consisting of a genetically modified chimp adenovirus that cannot infect merely raise an immune response. These are much more sophisticated than older vaccines that we have taken as children.
More here: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/how-leading-covid-19-vaccines-work
You could say vaccine refuseniks are free-loading on people who do get vaccinated and limit the potential spread of the virus. However I forgive them, these are scary times.
The mRNA vaccine holds no terrors for me, the DNA strands are mere!y read by your own cell machinery to elicit antigens and thus an immune response. Most people will get an AS vaccine consisting of a genetically modified chimp adenovirus that cannot infect merely raise an immune response. These are much more sophisticated than older vaccines that we have taken as children.
More here: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/how-leading-covid-19-vaccines-work
Johnnyboxer
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- Yorkshire
It will come back
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- Scottish Highlands
R4 this morning. The Oxford vaccination is not so effective against the South African virus and we can expect to need a booster or modified vaccine every year.
Of course, perish the thought, if it mutates into a more lethal form and the refuseniks still won't have it, the human race should, in theory, evolve into a more intelligent form......
Of course, perish the thought, if it mutates into a more lethal form and the refuseniks still won't have it, the human race should, in theory, evolve into a more intelligent form......
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- Perthshire, Scotland
I’m a long way off getting the jag but my folks are getting closer.
In the last 4 weeks I’ve lost my grampa and my aunt to COVID-19, my granny survived, she was the only one out of the three that had the first dose.
IMO it should be written into the laws of the country
In the last 4 weeks I’ve lost my grampa and my aunt to COVID-19, my granny survived, she was the only one out of the three that had the first dose.
IMO it should be written into the laws of the country
Breakthru
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- Scottish Borders
Not compulsory but you won't get on a plane without the vaccine passport and I wouldn't be surprised if you get turned away from Wetherspoons etc just the same. Usual discrimination screams but their and your choice. Some harsh reactions in people with underlying conditions but not heard of it killing anybody yet.
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Well as I am of an age over 50, I was offered the flu jab this year, and I took it,
Rolled up the sleeve, looking straight forward and focused on something in the room,
He said that's it your free to go, i never felt a thing, apart from he was holding my arm with other hand, I said is that it, he replied " needles are that sharp and so thin, you will hardly feel it " only side effect was a very small lump ( not uncomfortable at all ) for a day or two, but only noticed it if you felt it,
Just go forth and get it, bugger me if you were worming cattle, you would not leave a few un done in a batch, jfdi,
My close friend played hell with his mother and stopped her going to the family Xmas Dinner, 6 of his aunties and uncles met on Xmas day, as being on there 80s, they wanted to meet up as it my be the last Christmas together, they were right it was, as all 6 got covid19, all in hospital, 1 got better and went home, 2 are still in hospital yet, 2 brothers died, and a sister was that bad, they took her from Carlisle to Newcastle hospital, was that bad she had to go on a ventilation unit, but to stop her fighting against the unit, she was put into an induced comar and sedation, she died on day 5 of being on ventilation.
So just get the jab, not only to protect yourself, but also others
Rolled up the sleeve, looking straight forward and focused on something in the room,
He said that's it your free to go, i never felt a thing, apart from he was holding my arm with other hand, I said is that it, he replied " needles are that sharp and so thin, you will hardly feel it " only side effect was a very small lump ( not uncomfortable at all ) for a day or two, but only noticed it if you felt it,
Just go forth and get it, bugger me if you were worming cattle, you would not leave a few un done in a batch, jfdi,
My close friend played hell with his mother and stopped her going to the family Xmas Dinner, 6 of his aunties and uncles met on Xmas day, as being on there 80s, they wanted to meet up as it my be the last Christmas together, they were right it was, as all 6 got covid19, all in hospital, 1 got better and went home, 2 are still in hospital yet, 2 brothers died, and a sister was that bad, they took her from Carlisle to Newcastle hospital, was that bad she had to go on a ventilation unit, but to stop her fighting against the unit, she was put into an induced comar and sedation, she died on day 5 of being on ventilation.
So just get the jab, not only to protect yourself, but also others
Personal choice for various reasons
Interested to know what the reasons are if you dont mind sharing.
Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
Are they reasons that normal people would consider valid or are they purely selfish or can't be bothered?
I'm curious to know what excuses people come up with for not being vaccinated.
MickW
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- South West
I had the jab hate needles but didn’t feel it, with no side effects other than a slight ache. Next on booked 14th April pleased I had it