Anyone else feel ashamed of getting the Covid shots?

The last faint gasps from the Boards "I'm just asking question about vaccines" contingent clinging on by their fingernails.

Soon to go the way of the anti-Measles vaccine crowd who quietly disappeared on here without a trace ;)

It is a vaccine. Refusing the COVID vaccine is anti-vax pure and simple.

You have never supported that belief so it not really compelling.

"Like a miracle, it'll disappear?"

Hope springs eternal, but hope is not a strategy.

I don't think the majority of parents chose to vaccinate their children for Covid. I might be wrong but I thought the uptake rate for Under 15s or maybe U12s was very low indeed.

This whole statement is a contradiction…. gets all other vaccines, says they're fully informed and researched it all themselves…

But decides COVID vaccine wasn't for them.

So they buy into the likes of MMR (which requires a population size immunity of 95%, one of the reasons why we're seeing measles outbreaks is because it has dropped below that 95%)..

But, during a global pandemic, decides a vaccine is a bad idea…

Absolutely hilarious :-D

Vaccines are one of the most effective medical treatments we've ever created.

An estimated 300 million people died from Smallpox in the last century. There is a long and growing list of diseases that we are eradicating and reducing the effects of.

I've never seen a single positive objective comment from yourself about these vaccines, is there a valid reason for that?

Would I be right in guessing you took a stance against Covid vaccines before they were even out?

It's a general question.

From any perspective your posts paint a picture that you are "anti Covid vaccines". Does anything you've written dispute that?

Against a vaccine that nearly every adult in this country has taken..

Masks played a significant and positive roll in improving health outcomes.

Irrational - Yes

For taking MMR - No

This type of ambiguious comment is entertaining. Do you refer to properly worn n95 masks? Cloth ones? Hand over the face mask? The ones the Muslims wear? The ones motorcyclists wear? The ones you see on dashboards of cars? A virus particle will behave like a smoke particle. Try and contain that in any mask. Its like saying lockdown contributed to positive health outcomes. Yes it might have specific to Covid but it sure as hell contributed to a lot of misery elsewhere.

The commonly prescribed medical grade masks. Viruses do not move freely in the air, they move on mucus which is very effectively stopped by wearing appropriate medical grade masks. This has been well understood in the far east for decades and anyone with an infective cold type disease uses them to protect their fellow citizens.

Wearing a mask takes very little effort from the individual and does a lot to stop the spread of disease. It's just another paranoid anti-vaxxers trope to claim otherwise.

It's a simple question. Are you against the Covid vaccines?

It looks to me like you were against them before they were even available..

How is getting a covid vaccine any worse than getting covid?

Once covid was in the population we were all going to get it. I’m glad I got the vaccine to help prepare my immune system for covid itself.

please do tell us how a simple binary question, is not binary

You wrote that you were against these vaccines and wouldn't take them - before they were out.

Which would strongly suggest a personal bias and agenda - against a medical treatment that wasn't released.

Care to explain the reason and rationale behind that?

I've asked you the same equivalent question multiple times now and each time you deflect. I keep simplifying it, but you don't even answer those.

More than happy to address your questions but you can't expect others to answer when you won't.

The "powers that be", the "official story", tenuous leaps.. a bit early in the day for that stuff.

The vaccines reduced hospitalizations/deaths from the disease and variants, by up to 80%. Not bad for a mutating disease. A complete no-brainer during a pandemic, which is why most of us are vaccinated.

Lockdown and "hard" was order of the day and Masks and anything that Maybe reduced/covered the face was excellent even your hand and questioning a mask dumped you into the nether world. I dont think anyone questioned whether a hard lockdown would work or not. It obviously would. The isolation tactic to anyone with a morsel of knowledge works. If it works to the greater good that has proven to be debatable. Same with the Vaxxes. They Worked..a bit. Maybe reduced spread. Omnicron did the work. If Delta was flying around the vaccines would have proved their worth but it was gone by the time the vaxxes came out