Anyone else feel ashamed of getting the Covid shots?

So you think that none of them had any shots, or as may as you? Doesn't seem likely given the take-up rate overall.

There is a huge amount we still don't know about why some people who are exposed to this virus (and others, eg influenza, cold) get sick, and some don't. Ventilation probably plays a part. But there's way more to it, and huge amounts we cannot explain.

Encouraging healthy people, who aren't at major risk of the disease, to take a preventative that's had less than two years of testing doesn't sit well with me.

It's impossible to know your own vunerability.

Perfectly healthy people died of strokes early on after catching COVID with no indication of their vunerability to strokes.

Only had the first two. Never bothered with boosters. Don't really regret it or feel shame. Disgust I still feel to this day however.

My eyes were opened to how quick and easy it is for the general populace to be manipulated into a frenzied authoritarian rabble.

I am not sure people would readily accept a vaccine if another virus emerged. I think many healthy folks would take their chances with natural infection.

I am always puzzled why so many healthcare workers refuse the Flu and now Covid vaccines.

What is the latest with the Covid boosters? What age bracket are encouraged to take it? Over 55?

edit. It's 2024. Life's too short to be arguing about covid on the internet.

It reminds me a bit of the Y2K bug.

A massive issue was identified, precautions were taken to the tune of millions to update computer systems. The millennium rolled around and nothing happened. Everything kept ticking on.

'oh that was a scam, nothing happened, why did you spend all that money?'

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Perhaps the spending the money to update the systems prevented the issue from happening.

A crisis was averted to a large degree by the actions taken during the Covid pandemic.

Like Y2K - if you don't fix the issue, potential global catastrophe.

If you do fix the issue, people then don't believe it was an issue to begin with.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Firstly they told us we wouldn’t get Covid if we took the Vaccine , that was proved to be a load of rubbish.

Then they said that we wouldn’t get Covid “as bad” if we got the Covid , something the is completely unprovable.

Now some Doctors instead of using the term Long Covid are using the term Long Vaccine.

Yes, I am ashamed !!! Probably be branded a looney , no doubt.

It was not claimed that the vaccines prevent transmission.

How could they anyways, think about it.

If you have taken the vaccine, and are standing on a train or bus, how can the vaccine prevent the transmission of the virus from a person standing near you towards your face?

No vaccine can stop that.

What was claimed was that the vaccine reduces illness once you were infected.

It can't stop you getting infected.

There's two layers to your immune system.

Your immediate antibodies and then your deeper 'memory' layer.

After being sick or vaccinated, you have a store of immediate antibodies which repel infection. That was what the trials showed for the vaccines in the time frame studied versus the Alpha variant. If you're not infected, you aren't going to re-transmit it.

These wane, the virus evolves into a new variant, and can slip past that first line of defence.

That's where your 'memory' layer kicks in, takes time to get going but fights off serious infection. This is more durable and less 'fussy' as it targets eg things like Spike protein which change less.

Covid vaccines in study after study have shown up this durable secondary protection significantly reduces your chances of severe infection\ death and this was seen in hospitals in Ireland and elsewhere with the predominance of unvaccinated covid patients.

Got a booster shot in April. I'll get another booster if its recommended.

I tend not to listen to anti-vaxxers / flat earth types who seem to get their "knowledge" from fakebook or jimmy in the pub.

Nope

Didn't Matt Le Tissier Boards.ie !.

Professionals who dared to speak up were cancelled and axed from their jobs. More the exception here in Ireland but it did happen. What was the name of that senior midlands health official again who was forced to resign after speaking up? He was called everything under the sun by media and public and had to retire early.

It didnt happen en masse but he wasnt the only one either.

Quite astonishing how the op made absolutely no reference to social media sites and conspiracy theories yet is almost immediately labelled as such and a fair amount of vitriol aimed at him, shameful actually.

Ask a simple question and the hysteria kicks off, just like 2020 all over again. Seems Dr. Mattias Desmet was right all along 🙄