I believe the vaccine will protect me from Covid, I have not picked it up at any point despite working with the public daily all through the pandemic and using buses. With 2 vaccines under my belt it’s got no chance. Everyone I love has had or will soon be having the vaccine or is a child. If people are unable to have the vaccine they should be protected and supported but please let the rest of us get our lives back. The terrible effects of lockdowns are really starting to show now. Enough is enough.
Picking up Lyn’s comment above, I am now going to ask an embarrassingly dumb question but here it is. If I have both vaccines and I intermingle at random with 1000 vaccinated people am I just as likely to get Covid as if I intermingled with 1000 people who had not been vaccinated?
I had assumed that the unvaccinated bunch were much more threatening to me but is the point of the vaccine just to make you significantly less unwell if you do succumb?
Then if it is safer to mix with the vaccinated than the unvaccinated then I would therefore prefer to patronise establishments that try to regulate admissions. However I acknowledge the practical difficulties of this and, like raisingirl, will just have to trust people have done the right thing.
One thing is sure, given Peggy from Texas’s observations about Americans’ attitude to vaccinations, USA has slumped right down my list of potential future holiday destinations.
So have I got this straight? The vaccinated person is just as much at risk of getting Covid - though not as seriously - as the unvaccinated one but the vaccinated person with Covid is much less likely to spread it. In that case, put me in a restaurant or aeroplane with vaccinated people, please.
As I understand it, the early vaccine trials didn't look at how likely people were to catch it just at how likely they were to become seriously ill and how likely they were to pass it on. More recent studies have suggested that it does prevent many (most?) people from becoming infected but the results are not yet conclusive.
You are less likely to catch it Less likely to have severe disease, if you do catch it Less likely to spread it, if you have it.
I was not going to reply to earlier posting, but it made me so mad, that so much has been done to try and sort it, and yet there are people who are really to stupid to live.
How can the vaccine modify your DNA, total lack of understanding of basic science.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Number 2 son had his jab yesterday, lunchtime, he's 44,no physical health issues, spoke to be him this morning.headache, dizzy,joint and limb pains, shivering
I honestly do not know how I feel about making everyone have the jab. I do think that all social care workers and NHS staff should have it. Sugeons have to have Hep jabs to operate so there is a precedent. If they don't wish to have the jab then they should find alternative employment. Sorry to be so harsh but you can't choose who looks after you in these settings so they shouldn't be able to put you in danger of catching such a terrible virus.
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Then if it is safer to mix with the vaccinated than the unvaccinated then I would therefore prefer to patronise establishments that try to regulate admissions. However I acknowledge the practical difficulties of this and, like raisingirl, will just have to trust people have done the right thing.
One thing is sure, given Peggy from Texas’s observations about Americans’ attitude to vaccinations, USA has slumped right down my list of potential future holiday destinations.
I think @punkdoc confirmed this a few pages back.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You are less likely to catch it
Less likely to have severe disease, if you do catch it
Less likely to spread it, if you have it.
I was not going to reply to earlier posting, but it made me so mad, that so much has been done to try and sort it, and yet there are people who are really to stupid to live.
How can the vaccine modify your DNA, total lack of understanding of basic science.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border