A heap of young people locally with Covid recently . Seems to have stemmed from celebrations in a pub after a match .Some amount of cases around here recently. Young people mostly
I'm not anti-vaccine by any stretch of the imagination but I would have serious reservations about deciding whether or not to permit the children in my care to have it administered to them. There are no studies to prove there are long-term side affects, there are no studies to prove there are no long-term side affects. The mass vaccination of entire populations with relatively unproven drugs is unprecedented in history. I haven't set foot in a hairdressers for 25 years or a barbers for 2, and I'm not on Facebook. I don't like the narrative that puts all those who don't comply in the looney category. There are plenty of examples in history of substances that were deemed to be perfectly safe and sadly turned out to be harmful to many.I'd rarely argue with herself mainly because I got sick of losing. But my older sister called during the week with my niece and announced she wasn't letting her get the vaccine because 'there's people worried about their daughters fertility down the line'. I was taken aback with that but gobsmacked when my wife agreed with her.
After a few minutes of asking what studies showed a risk to fertility greater than the risk of the virus and why weren't they concerned about a risk to their sons fertility, it turns out this is coming from their hairdressers.
FFS!
Anyway, went for a walk with my daughter this evening and she's already decided to get the vaccine but not till later in the week as there's a 24 hour ban on matches after the vaccine.
Thank god there's 1 sensible female in the family. This whole resistance to vaccines has me thinking this society can't last much longer, taking medical advice from hairdressers. Jaysus!
Sorry about the rant, needed to get that off my chest.
I have reservations myself and I'd be in a high risk group.I'm not anti-vaccine by any stretch of the imagination but I would have serious reservations about deciding whether or not to permit the children in my care to have it administered to them. There are no studies to prove there are long-term side affects, there are no studies to prove there are no long-term side affects. The mass vaccination of entire populations with relatively unproven drugs is unprecedented in history. I haven't set foot in a hairdressers for 25 years or a barbers for 2, and I'm not on Facebook. I don't like the narrative that puts all those who don't comply in the looney category. There are plenty of examples in history of substances that were deemed to be perfectly safe and sadly turned out to be harmful to many.
How does you being vaccinated protect the others. I thought the vaccine only protected the person that has the vaccine, the person with the vaccine can still get covid and spread it to another person, or am I missing somethingI have reservations myself and I'd be in a high risk group.
But, as members of a society, we also have obligations to others in society who would be adversely effected by our decisions. I'm still socially isolating but I'm a member of a small high risk group who meets occasionally in different sheds around on our farms for a chat. Just to stay in contact with that small group, there's a moral obligation on each member to get the vaccine to reduce risk to the others in the group especially one undergoing treatment for cancer.
On long term side effects, a much higher risk of death from not getting the vaccine would also be up there, wouldn't it?
As to mass vaccinations of entire populations with unproven drugs being unsafe, well nothing exists without risk. Polio is a disease of the past after being treating populations with unproven drugs. Most of the components used in the vaccines have years and decades of use in other vaccines with no apparent difficulties with their use. The use of mRNA in the vaccine would be the novel component in the vaccine and the body id going to get exposed to that once a person is infected anyway.
There's been 2 decades of research into human immunity against coronaviruses since the first appearance of SARS and then the appearance of MERS over a decade ago but funding dried up over time as the relative importance of the virus was judged to be decreasing.
Those resisting the virus are a varied bunch and there's definitely a large proportion of loons in there, the British government seeking herd immunity would definitely be up there anyway.
I see Tom Pememberton posted a video this morning to update that he and his wife have tested positive.
I had not realised that the UK vaccination programme was a good bit behind the Irish one.
From stuff he said in recent videos with stags, weddings etc it is not much of a surprise!