COVID19 - To Vaccinate or To Not Vaccinate

Got my 2nd dose day before yesterday! Yippee!

My OH is getting his first dose tomorrow. He has two comorbidities. I don't, plus I'm with the VA, so waiting for them, and resisting the urge to lie about comorbidities.

My mom is getting her second dose 3/16.

Here how i see things - issues are almost the same all over the world

-In Romania vaccine is for free, funded by gov, you have to wait still for yr turn
as before there are the health care personel, then the old people and then
the teachers and persons who qualify
- there are the 3 one pfizer, modena and artezeneca
artezeneca they say it is not after 60, they alternate these ones. Not enough but step by step seems to work

Of course there are also a small number of negative reactions which press magnify them
sometimes, but I think even for other non covid vaccine can be like that
I mean what ?u don't expect maybe a possible allergy, some fever maybe or some red skin or so?
these are normal one effects

- I will do this = vaccine me - for selfish reasons first for the ones around me, because if it is only
my body I can decide and do whatever I want, but if I damage the life of my dear ones, family, friends , colleagues, I will feel guilty all my life and I do not want this for myself
I mean i have my mum with comorbidities, my brother in law with cancer, my husband had in the past tuberculosis

What shall I do, exposing them cause it is me the most important on Earth? To do what? To live alone and search
for their memories?

Then I want to do it for another selfish reason, because there are rumors that ok, of course u can not do it
it is yr choice, but if all yr colleagues have done that , u will be in the future told to stay home and not come to the
office cause you are exposing all of them

-I regret of course that it is not a single dose like j and j for all ones
I also regret that after ,i still need to wear this damn mask, is there not any anti mask vaccine? - haha
and also regret that the effect is only some months
IMO we will have to repeat various vaccines till getting to one that works like for an year or more
is this how i see at least for 2021 who knows about 2022

- Saying all these I will do it, when I will be on the list, although we have also
here people who don't believe in vaccine not per se, but they think the human rights to choose
to do it or not ,are violated, a lot of people who still think that Lord and not vaccine will help them
Well we are at 5000 cases per day and we will get soon to 10000/day
We have all the stems possible and impossible
Also a lot of people not believing it is covid, covid is just a simple flu for them
It is sad there are people thinking like this who went to school and universities and learnt science
and they can compare things and have knowledge
But I think school seems does not teach u to think too much in these cases

You have to feel the death of one dear to u to start believing the covid effects and also to have a vaccine to help?

That's what i had to say, it is sad how the world goes, maybe we should really explore life on other planets

kshama2001 wrote: »

NorthCascades wrote: »

I don't know whether people sincerely believe this stuff, in which case our education system is failing is profoundly as a society, or if people are trolling for fun and profit. I kind of hope it's #2 because we really need most people to have a basic understanding of reality.

I have an anti-vaxxer in my family. She really believes it. Oh, and she used to work as an RN (some time ago) so she had that education as well.

She's actually not speaking to me at the moment. I'm wondering how long that will last.

I know a woman who is an anti-vaxxer* as well. She used to be an LVN. She would not wear masks in public either even during the height of the Covid surge in California. She is a nice person otherwise.

I have a few acquaintances on Facebook who were spreading anti vaccine propaganda recently and the information they were putting out was so ridiculous and false. One girl was even saying that hospital staff were purposely letting certain races die. This made me so mad because it is a complete lie. So ignorant and annoying.

I will vaccinate, but living in a relatively save place in the world (NZ) I am in no hurry. Let's get border workers vaccinated, their families, people with higher risks than me who is simply overweight (not obese) and getting thinner.

Honestly, if it was up to me the vaccines we bought should instead have gone to hotspots where people truly need them. I feel like we can wait. But as we get them anyway? Sure, I will get vaccinated in due time.

Had my first dose of AZ on Sunday. I have a slightly sore red mark on my arm and late last night I felt a little unwell, a headache and a bit blugh, so I took paracetamol and went to bed.

Today I am as right as rain and have just come back from a 3 mile walk with a bag of heavy shopping.

And my level of relief at having been vaccinated is off the scale.

Here is my take. My brother and a friend, both triathletes, both in fantastic physical condition caught the virus. The friend caught it in late February or early March. He went to the doctor, negative for flu, so the doctor sent him home to rest and recuperate. Healthy so they thought he would be okay. He had Covid-19 and lived alone. When he no longer responded to texts and calls from friends and coworkers, one of them came over to check on him. He passed away in his bed. My brother also caught it in March. He described the experience as the worst illness he had ever encountered. 3 weeks of misery where at times he struggled to breath (he had a pulse oximeter and was able to check his O2 levels and would have gone to the hospital if things got bad. He said it was over 2 months after he recovered that he began to feel more like himself. An acquaintance lost her father and a sister to Covid-19 after less than a week in the hospital. The sister had a twin who woke up after 6 weeks on a ventilator to learn of their deaths and then had to spend months in rehab. Another acquaintance lost her sister 3 days before she was supposed to be vaccinated. All of these people were over 50 years old, as am I. I will take the vaccine as soon as I can get an appointment. My husband and sons are also planning to be vaccinated. If you are young and lower risk, I can understand why someone might choose to wait. For those of us who are older, we don't have that luxury.

My dh & I are fully vaccinated, having received 2nd doses over 2 weeks ago. Our dd (teacher) received her 2nd dose last Thursday. Our other dd will get 2nd dose next week. Will be glad when sil can get it. I am glad we are vaccinated.