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Anyone else feel ashamed of getting the Covid shots?

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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,297 ✭✭✭hometruths


     "Higher levels of education were also associated positively with vaccine acceptance on both questions. "

    Little wonder. In June 2020. 6 months before anybody in the world had received a covid vaccine!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,668 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Find it strange people can have been duped by anti vax propaganda into thinking it is not a vaccine.

    It is a vaccine. Anything else is just anti vax disinformation.

    Vaccines have a range of purposes, from prevention of infection to mitigation of a disease. Covid vaccine ticks multiple of those boxes.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,386 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    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 ;)



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,447 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Pretty much every age group and demographic, the actual amount of benefit varies tremendously between groups but every group benefited unless contraindicated. The seatbelt analogy is actually really good in that it benefits every group but probably benefits certain groups more than others as those groups are more likely ot be in life altering/ending accidents



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


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



  • Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭Spiderman0081


    That’s not the same analogy though. The poster was referring to the actual seatbelt in itself being safe, even though the actual seatbelt, in very rare circumstances is the cause of death. As to pretty much every demographic benefiting, I agree the benefits vary tremendously, to the negative in young healthy children.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


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



  • Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭Spiderman0081


    You certainly don’t need to find that compelling. What’s important is that the vast majority of parents are pretty sensible



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,099 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    "Like a miracle, it'll disappear?"

    Hope springs eternal, but hope is not a strategy.



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Yes they got the COVID vaccine for their children, that was sensible.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    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.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,322 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords




  • Registered Users Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭snowcat


    The mind boggles. It took a degree to get you from a knuckle dragger anti measles/polio/smallpox to appreciate vaccines. My interest in vaccines was minimal pre-covid. Took my travel ones had all my childhood shots vaccinated my kids and still do. Made an educated choice on the Covid one after a lot of my own research which proved correct. Was not necessary for me. No one can still give me a definition of that ofter thrown out word here 'anti-vaxxer'. Anyone who was a blanket anti vaxxer pre Covid is on another level of intelligence (and thats not a compliment).



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    @snowcat since you are thread banned I won't be responding further to your comments.



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,447 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    I don't know about everyone, but I presume most posters get that a lot of people who are routinely vaccinated don't do it solely for themselves. It is typically of benefit to them but the benefit in the main is to the population as a whole.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,761 ✭✭✭wandererz


    Going to to the pharmacy on Saturday, before the opticians appointment, to get a shot. Shame? No shame here.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 401 ✭✭vswr


    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



  • Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭Spiderman0081


    Are you trying to suggest that the poster was irrational(absolutely hilarious) for buying into a vaccine that is highly effective in eradicating a virus if administered to more than 95% of the population. The mmr vaccine works brilliantly. Why would the poster not buy into that?
    Sounds like you are an anti-vaxxer!



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,447 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    I think the point was that it is odd to "buy into that" and be very much against the Covid vaccines. Presuming the poster by their talk is a male, between 20 and 40, Measles is unlikely to kill them, Mumps even less so (although a friend had hilarious/tragic side effects and had to wear a sling around his testicles for awhile), Rubella I am unsure of but I guess close to mumps. The mortality rate of Covid in the first wave was higher than that of the Mumps and Rubella by a lot but for some reason, a vaccine that reduces severity and infection time is not a good vaccine and unnecessary.

    The only truly hilarious thing is the belief that lots of people taking vaccines is only for them. A lot may believe that but, yet again, that is not why we aim for mass vaccination. This was heavily shown over the pandemic in news reports and infographics, no different than the ones seen in college lectures.

    I didn't take the vaccine to save my life, I took so that the risk to those who were more at risk would be less, simple as that. Yes there was the added benefit that the risk to me was reduced but if I was the only person I cared about, I wouldn't actually have given a sh1t.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,668 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    And the other 'public benefit' for those outside the cohorts considered 'vulnerable', is that there was still a risk of hospitalization and ICU. Smaller than for the vulnerable. Smaller risk of death - because the medical treatment would probably ensure they pull through.

    But given population size, that would translate into numbers in hospital. Taking up a hospital bed that could have been avoided with vaccination.

    This is important in the context of an outbreak of the infectious disease.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,386 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    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?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭FaganJr


    Lets see how many of this crowd change their minds when offered an MRNA Cancer vaccine. My guess they would be first in the queue!



  • Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭Spiderman0081


    Please try reading what I said about the mmr vaccine again.



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,297 ✭✭✭hometruths


    I appreciate this wasn't asked of me, but thought I'd answer anyway.

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

    100% in agreement.

    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.

    Smallpox vaccine is brilliant.

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

    Vaccines are one of the most effective medical treatments we've ever created. Smallpox vaccine is brilliant. So now you have seen a positive comment.

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

    No, you wouldn't be right. I was delighted when vaccines were announced, and would have no hesitation in getting it if it was offered to me in January 2021. It was only around mid 2021 that I became hesitant specifically about the Covid vaccine.

    And my kids are vaxxed to the hilt for all the usual suspects, except Covid.

    Am I a rabid anti-vaxxer?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,386 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    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..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,095 ✭✭✭Doc07


    absolutely, no need for anyone to be ashamed, the proportion of serious illness, hospital admissions and death in the vaccinated was massively lower compared to unvaccinated.

    Well done to the the massive , massive majority of people in Ireland (approx 95%of adults) who got on with life and didn’t try and dispute the advice of public health experts who had to make (sometimes imperfect )evidence based recommendations in good faith for the greater good. We (as a nation) did fine in our vaccination programme and as a nation definitely benefited , even if there were some less than optimal issues on masks and restrictions.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


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



  • Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭Spiderman0081


    Please don’t say you would do something just because nearly everyone else did. I’m sure you were taught that as a child.

    75 million people voted for Donald Trump in 2020, and he will more than likely be voted back into the White House in a few months.


    90% of voters in Russia voted for Vladimir Putin.

    Or does doing something en masse only count when it suits a narrative




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 401 ✭✭vswr




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 401 ✭✭vswr


    The gene therapy infusions, already available, are a precursor to it being condensed into vaccine form, using MRNA technology.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭jsd1004


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭jsd1004


    Unfortunately you are special as most people who take a vaccine are looking after number 1. Hence the drop off in Covid Vaccine uptake.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭jsd1004


    Thats not agreed. As a First responder i have experience of proper use of N95 mask. Donning and doffing a N95 mask is not a "very little effort" and it is highly unlikely they will ever be used correctly by the general public.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,386 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    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..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,386 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    And here come the anti-mask and anti-lockdown types



  • Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭Spiderman0081


    The fact that you think it’s simply a matter of for or against is quite telling.



  • Registered Users Posts: 7,971 ✭✭✭YellowLead


    I don’t think so. The only reason I took it was to protect the vulnerable (I got Covid early on before the vaccine was available) and it was the same with every one of my friends and indeed colleagues I’ve spoken to since - none of us would have bothered if it was just for our own protection. I can’t speak to the reasons of the entire population but I’d say there was a fair whack just doing their bit to protect others.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭AyeGer


    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.



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    "Largest study on masks and Covid-19 demonstrates their effectiveness in the real world

    Results
    from EGC affiliate Mushfiq Mobarak and coauthors’ recent paper clearly
    demonstrate that mask usage reduces Covid-19, highlighting how masks
    should continue to play a vital role in fighting the pandemic. "

    https://egc.yale.edu/largest-study-masks-and-covid-19-demonstrates-their-effectiveness-real-world

    Masks are effective with a reduction of infections of around 10%.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 401 ✭✭vswr


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



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,447 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    This, I think that the majority of people done it for others, there are some who didn't but for the majority of people, it was for friends, family, the population in general.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,386 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    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?



  • Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭Spiderman0081


    Do you believe that vaccine passports were rational?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,386 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    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.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,653 ✭✭✭ericzeking


    Equally, was it not the case that the powers that be had decided that the vaccines were the way out of COVID long before they were available or even tested or proven to work/not work? Lockdown until vaccine was order of the day, Michael McGrath said as much on Prime Time in around Oct20….that might bring about some biases too one would imagine?

    And I suppose might have been a red flag for some in respect to whether or not they would take it.

    Like they could have put saline in the vaccines and the governments would have to claim they were effective because that was their only way out and their only way to claim credit for saving us all. eg We had these insane case numbers right before the restrictions were fully lifted, essentially because time was running out to claim credit.

    It's mad how many people still believe the official story, despite all the evidence to the contrary, Lockdowns and Masks stopped Covid until Vaccines saved us all, aha.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,386 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,629 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    I've nothing to feel ashamed about. I never got the vaccines. It was completely blown out of all proportion in my opinion. I'm not anti-vaccine, the elderly and the immunocompromised should have taken the vaccine. But for the rest of the population, I don't think it was needed. Especially vaccinating all the kids.

    I got COVID, I wouldn't have known only for I took an antigen test as my sense of smell was reduced and I was a little run down. The symptoms lasted less than a week. I had infinitely worse bouts of flu as a kid. Maybe I had COVID other times and wasn't aware. I was always considerate of others, as I wore a mask everywhere indoors and used the alcohol hand sanitizer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭jsd1004


    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 401 ✭✭vswr


    "that one lad on boards had some anecdotal evidence that COVID wasn't so bad for some….. all those scientists and doctors must be lying"…

    I was in the UK at the time and they turned an aircraft hanger down the road from us into a temporary morgue as all the normal ones were full….. this was for over 6 months…

    "we'll just ignore that,because I got the sniffles and that was it….no way people were dying from it"



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