Vaccine Megathread No 2 - Read OP before posting

Allowing unvaccinated children into indoor locations is clearly stupid and will drive transmission over the next few weeks and put us all at risk. On the other hand, in the US they are talking about booster doses only for healthcare workers & those with very weak immune systems, which seems very sensible and a good strategy. The rest of the vaccinated population are at little risk and don't need boosters anytime soon. Thanks to our very high vaccine uptake we are going to have a huge wall for the virus to climb by mid-August, and despite Delta causing some headlines things are looking great on our current path.

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Maybe that one dose stopped you from dying from covid? Who knows

Allowing unvaccinated children to dine indoors is not stupid, it's a realisation that not allowing it is unfair and unsustainable.

It seems very likely that the vaccine passport for dining will be around for a good few months. Children can't get vaccinated at the moment and under 12s might not get vaccinated ever. We'd essentially be saying we're not going to let children eat indoors for the foreseeable future, possibly into next year. And children are at pretty much at zero risk from Covid.

I'm in favour of vaccine passports for indoor dining generally but absolutely not for people who can't get vaccinated.

Whether it's unfair or not isn't relevant in my opinion, the decision to allow unvaccinated people mingle indoors at a point where cases are rising is putting them at risk, putting vaccinated people at risk, and is also putting us at risk of rapidly rising case numbers leading to reintroduction of restrictions. No amount of politicians blathering on about "use your own judgement" makes this a sensible decision, it's a completely unnecessary risk to be taking when we are close to getting large numbers fully vaccinated.

Just don't fill that in, they've to ask it all again on the day anyway

I received my second appointment and answered the online questions. I know some people get their appointments cancelled after answering these questions... So how soon would I know if my appointment gets cancelled? Very hard to plan for time off not knowing if it will go ahead or not.

I think based on other posters here that the cancellation happens straight away. So, you will be fine.

(Also, you'd hope they've fixed that glitch by now!)

Hi, has anyone here used a different form of ID (than a passport or driving license) at the MVC?

Daughter has an appointment for Tuesday evening and doesn’t drive, so no license, and had to renew her passport so is waiting for it to come back. She has a work ID with her photo and name on it - has anyone tried this and been accepted/refused?

Do they even have an overly strict ID policy currently? I haven't heard of anyone being refused a vaccine as they didn't have a certain ID, they are even flexible with a different name on the ID, as in given name vs official name etc....

And not all people looking for a booster shot would be crackpots, they are extremely beneficial for immune compromised people.

I've no idea about how strict they would be in a general sense, all of those I know who are vaccinated got it by means not involving the MVCs. I'm going by the publicly-stated required docs for being vaccinated in an MVC.

As for crackpots, I mean those who are looking for an extra 3rd / 4th dose by signing up for the same vaccination regime twice. The idea of boosters in Ireland is still not part of the current rollout as we still have many adults waiting to get vaccinated. Mixing and matching is better in any case for those folks, but that introduces real complications in the rollout. Also data is lacking in how cohort 3 / 4 would benefit from such a tweak, especially when right now the biggest priority is to reduce case numbers by vaccinating 18-25 year olds.

If there is a theme across Europe about the vaccination program, possibly the countries that allowed demand-led vaccination sooner are the ones who have kept the spread of delta suppressed to now.