Rowland
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With the 1st of the vaccines about to become avilble .
Poll Covid 19 Vaccine
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Charlie Gill
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Definitely, although knowing my luck I'll be the 1 in 10 it doesn't work on 
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Been talk on the other thread about thalidomide. I was born in 1960 and my mum often used to talk of coming close to taking it for morning sickness.
Does make you think
Does make you think
Rowland
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A drug that slipped into general use that shouldn’t have around 60 years ago when rules and regulations where totally different
Storeman
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Pretty much the same with me.
Mum was prescribed it, but for some reason wouldn't take it.
gone up the hill
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Good job one member of your family had some sense
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Hindsight
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I didn't say yesterday but will this evening. My brother in law David is 61 and has a deformed left hand - his mother took Thalidomide. David has a twin sister - she was unaffected. Fortunately the deformity hasn't really affected his life. But there you are.
Got a similar sad story about flu vaccine. I think I've told it on here before. Personally I'd rather be pegged up the wrongun by the ghost of Lionel Ritchie and he's not even dead yet.
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At school, as mean school kids, it was a common insult/joke for our generation of course.
Any of you folk watch Ivor Cummins (not a joke) on Youtube? He's a clever guy and all over this and a voice of calm in this madness. This thing is taking an entirely predictive route, just like SARS and Swine Flu etc. It will burn out. Have a look at his stuff on the channel, he's very sensible, unlike twatttty and wankkance. This thing will burn itself out whatever. It doesn't want to kill us all because then it dies too. I'm not really sure what is going on here with the national consciousness. We had Swine Flu when my middle boy was a baby. I had it and it was terrifying from what they told us but guess what? We were fine. Staff in my local Mozzers have worked all year with zero protection and the whole of the great unwashed coming and going all day and nobody has died. It'll be fine. Protect the very vulnerable of course. The end.
Yeah. Shame on us. Live and learn eh?
Hindsight
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Yes, I can vaguely recall something being said. First time I ever came across the effects was meeting David in 1983 or maybe 1984 when I rocked up and David was there with my girlfriends sister. They had met at St Andrews Uni. David is over 6ft and an athlete - so to be frank it was a time before I even realised. We lost my wifes sister to cancer in 2012. But there you go that is life, and death. Cheers. Definitely 83. Goodness time flies!
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Same here,just the year before.One woman in the next bed to my mother after giving birth upped sticks,got dressed and left on her own.Her baby was deformed but very much alive.My mum never forgot the arguments going on in the corridor with the sisters.
kiwi pom
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Depends.
At the moment, no but only because NZ is Covid free, except at the border.
If it was everywhere I'd have one but I'm guessing NZ will be a long way down the list.
For all you guys promoting herd immunity as a 'cure' remember vaccines are a big part of why it works.
At the moment, no but only because NZ is Covid free, except at the border.
If it was everywhere I'd have one but I'm guessing NZ will be a long way down the list.
For all you guys promoting herd immunity as a 'cure' remember vaccines are a big part of why it works.
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I’d have the vaccine if offered by the NHS because I am in daily contact for my 86 year old mother. Also an effective vaccine brings the pandemic to an quicker than otherwise would be the case, thereby reducing the human and economic costs. Generally vaccines have been of more benefit to mankind than any other medical advance, a brilliant human achievement in my book.
But what if you have shut yourselves off from it, denied nature as it were and then it rips through again? Or in a mutant form so you grow 2 heads and one of them speak Klingon? Seriously though. The way govt's are treating this appears more and more to me like factory farming.
Charlie Gill
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I don't understand the resistance, maybe I need to read more. If you voted 'No' could you say why, maybe helpful to state age group too.
We know a lot about Covid, it's effects physically and the restrictions that causes (which leads to other issues) but I haven't seen anything that suggests the vaccine would be worse.
We know a lot about Covid, it's effects physically and the restrictions that causes (which leads to other issues) but I haven't seen anything that suggests the vaccine would be worse.