Poll: Will you have the Vaccine?

Nervous about this poll positioning this as a casual choice. Everybody should be having the vaccine, if offered, unless there's a medical reason not to.

Well, it IS a choice. I’m not sure where casual comes into it. How would you position this poll? 

I’d have been a test subject given half the change, gimme gimme gimme.

I thought Matt Hancock’s position on whether the vaccine was going to be compulsory was interesting though - it won’t be because they assume most people will want it. Not really sure what they would do if the majority of people opted out.

I literally had a conversation with my grandad about it (less than an hour ago) and he’s in his 80s and he doesn’t know whether to have it or not. According to him, ‘they’re making it all up as they go along’. I had to point out that of course they are - it’s a new vaccine built from scratch in record time.

I’d be really disappointed in anyone who doesn’t have the vaccine. Caution is one thing, but opting out ‘just in case’ is not the way forward in my opinion. I think it’s imperative not to give the anti-vaxxers their moment to win people to their cause - this is their biggest opportunity to score a ‘win’ and will run with it, as they’re unlikely to ever have another moment like this.

Obviously people will make their own minds up, but COVID needs suppressing and then erasing (hopefully). But rightly or wrongly, I judge anyone who would opt to allow themselves to remain susceptible to it when they don’t need to be.

I’ll be getting it as soon as it’s available to me.

Being one who is extremely vulnerable I would be very foolish not to have it, I have already had my flu vaccine. It is a complete game changer for me.

This all goes in with the MMR argument and the same arguments being made for not having that is being made for this, people read something by some idiot on Facebook and take it as literal. The stories I have heard on LBC have made me very concerned and frankly saddened. Parent/s taking their children out of school being a pertinent example, family members becoming estranged, because they have a radical views from the internet and get virtual hugs and hearts from a insane online community, it is bonkers. Don’t get me wrong as an adult you have every right to catch a virus and face the full consequences of it, which may include death by not having a vaccine, what you don’t have a right to do is to spread it to others so they face the full consequences of it including death. You don’t have rights as a parent/s to deny your children a vaccine either.

Don’t even get me started on the 5G argument and that blithering idiot of Piers Corbyn.

That would be my fear.

Might do, in a few years time maybe, in autumn, no point having it in spring. I see NHS staff will be offered it first, I'll be watching to see whether there will be high take-up from doctors (enough have already commented to know it won't be 100%).

I would but only once it has been proven to work and once I know what the possible side effects could be - as someone with many allergies (including penicillin and ibuprofen) I have quite severe reactions to most medication so am a little wary until more is known about it.

I can't see them restricting it. It's not as if the manufacturers of the vaccines are going to make a few million doses and then say "Bored now!" and stop so there won't be a long-term shortage of supply, and it wouldn't be politically popular to tell people they can't get vaccinated against a disease that kills almost 1% of those it infects no matter how much they want to.

As far as I'm concerned, any doctor or healthcare worker who refuses to get it should be banned from working in a clinical setting. That is a ridiculous unnecessary risk as well as a terrible example.

I too will negatively judge anyone who doesn't get it unless they have a proven medical reason for not doing so (and I don't mean a self-certified one like the mask exemptions).

I can understand them not routinely vaccinating younger people (aside from the vulnerable) immediately given there won't be infinite doses of the vaccine immediately available, but the goal should still be to require everyone to get it. I'm not expecting my turn to be before 2022, but will get it the minute it is offered to me.