Anyone else feel ashamed of getting the Covid shots?

No.

No.

No.

No!!!

No, there wasnt a huge outbreak of debilitating cases because most normal people took the vaccine.

As said previously, lay off the fake news being spread by conspiracy nut jobs

I don't feel ashamed, but in hindsight I'm not sure I would if I knew then what I know now.

The vaccine had it's purpose. The outcomes in phase 2 etc were much better and I believe that was a direct result of the vaccines. However I was in my early 40s with no comorbidities. I was not a high risk for serious issues from Covid. The main reason I got it was because I believed that it posed zero risk to me and because I believed that it would stop transmission and protect my elderly loved ones. That first point is debatable, and the second point was a flat out lie.

But why would I be ashamed that I was lied to and believed it?

Get off the oul Facebook conspiracy groups OP, they clearly do your head no good.

They were a bit of a waste of time I think. Always a couple of variants behind what's actually circulating

No, not at all. They blunted a serious epidemic risk and did it in absolutely record time.

Its always healthy to ask questions OP but, for the sake of your mental health, be better at where and who you accept answers from. The "just asking questions" crowd that thrive on FB, telegram and the likes, rarely have answers that stand scrutiny or an understanding of evidence that hasn't been skewed.

Science isn't perfect, and on occasion what's been thought correct has been overturned by new research. The thing is though, the reason it works? Is that it depends on evidence and it's repeatability in experiments and secondary research.

Being sceptical and inquisitive matters, I won't knock anyone for that, but if your scepticism leads you down the path of hypothesis and baseless claims based on "Big pharma" or the "WEF"? It's probably going to your mental health more harm than good.

Not ashamed but felt pressured into getting them which I was not comfortable with at the time.

No

nope, never got Covid and haven’t even had a single symptom of a cold / virus since.

How do you know it was 'useless' to you?

My father had polio as a child, was lucky he could walk. Not a lot of people alive in Ireland today would have seen it first hand. Can't imagine anyone who would've seen the lack of muscle in his legs would hesitate taking the vaccine.

Anti vaxxers need a serious slap.

The number one thing you could do at the time to reduce your risk of getting infected and passing on covid was to get vaccinated. Zero reason to be ashamed, zero reason to doubt you made the right call at the time.

In the early trials against alpha variant, it stopped transmission, because if you aren't infected, you can't pass it on.

Subsequent research showed the protection to be less than that, and less against later variants. But even then, vaccinated people were less likely to get infected and cleared infection from their systems more quickly than unvaccinated.

There was no lie, it was overtaken by events \ variants \ waning resistance.