When you cross a road, you reduce your chances of dying by waiting until the lorry has passed. We do many things every day to reduce our chances of dying. Why not reduce the chance of dying by having the Covid jab if it's offered?
You really are missing the point @mac12 … it’s those who are vulnerable and likely to be worse affected who are being offered the jab.
I am in my 70s … consequently I am likely to have a less efficient immune system and am therefore likely to be less able to fight Covid without the jab. Should I develop another health problem and contract COVID the effects will he cumulative and I will be more ill … not only is this a risk to me but it will put an added strain on an already overstretched health system. For this reason I have happily had all the jabs offered.
My partner is 19 years younger than me … therefore he is not yet believed to be at risk of having a reduced immune system due to age or another reason, therefore he has not been offered the jab this time around.
My understanding being that as his immune system is more efficient than mine his body will he better able to resist the virus resulting from the jabs he’s already had.
If the virus mutation results in previous jabs being less effective, then his group and possibly others will be offered the jab.
Totally logical and common sense to me … but then it does seem that sense is far less common than it used to be.
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I don't read anything other that GOV.uk for our 2 hospitals. I do keep eye on that regularly to see how it’s going. I don’t know how they can have 0 - 2 people tested positive last week out of about 500 odd who took the test. How many is 0 - 2? For the past 2 years no one has been on a ventilator in either hospital. Positive thought there.
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I don't read anything other that GOV.uk for our 2 hospitals. I do keep eye on that regularly to see how it’s going. I don’t know how they can have 0 - 2 people tested positive last week out of about 500 odd who took the test. How many is 0 - 2? For the past 2 years no one has been on a ventilator in either hospital. Positive thought there.
That is good about no one on ventilators, but isn't the goal that we not to get to the point where we need to be anywhere near a ventilator or hospital anyway?
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B3 I've only had the first one as I believed the hype at the time, I've never worn a mask or changed my lifestyle such as going out I read posts on here and elsewhere how people are still frightened to leave their home and feel sorry for them and think when people read that covid is killing people without actual figures showing how low the amount of deaths purely from covid is it's just scaremongering
What 'hype'? The figures were published by each country. They collected data differently, so there's a problem in comparing exact stats, but I don't recall a country where Covid wasn't seen as a killer (even those countries that were not so badly affected). Unless you're saying it was worldwide hype (by the ubiqitous 'they'), then who was hyping Covid ?
Do you cover your nose/ mouth when you sneeze/cough? Why?
Even if you don't want to believe the 'hype' (whatever that is) about Covid - are you also saying that the excess deaths recorded around the globe were during the Covid peak were also 'hype'?
I don't read anything other that GOV.uk for our 2 hospitals. I do keep eye on that regularly to see how it’s going. I don’t know how they can have 0 - 2 people tested positive last week out of about 500 odd who took the test. How many is 0 - 2? For the past 2 years no one has been on a ventilator in either hospital. Positive thought there.
It's called 'banding'. Most sets of statistics will show similar. 0-10, 10-50, 50-100etc. There is always a bit of built in wiggle room for inaccuracy. Stats are created by taking a sample audience and extrapolating results from that. Therefore they can't be 100% firm figures.
That's part of the reason I take all stats with a very large pinch of salt.
Dovefromabove I'm a 61 year old diabetic and classed as vulnerable and keep getting offered the jabs but don't want them
Well that's entirely up to you ... you're obviously one of those folk who like taking risks ... but I do hope that you've signed a DNR and told your nearest and dearest not to call an ambulance should you become seriously ill with Covid ... because you will be depriving others, who have done all they can to stay well, of scarce resources they may need to save their lives.
Its the same as the idiots who excuse exceeding the speed limit 'Because my car has all the safety features and if I crash I won't be hurt' ... without thinking of the harm they may do to others because of their selfishness.
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Regarding the risks that's what I keep saying nobody has ever said whether 5 people or 50000 are dying each week purely from covid if it's only 5 out of 70 million that's a risk worth taking
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I don’t know how they can have 0 - 2 people tested positive last week out of about 500 odd who took the test. How many is 0 - 2?
For the past 2 years no one has been on a ventilator in either hospital. Positive thought there.
Its the same as the idiots who excuse exceeding the speed limit 'Because my car has all the safety features and if I crash I won't be hurt' ... without thinking of the harm they may do to others because of their selfishness.
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