Poll: Will you have the Vaccine?

Ha. Think the issue is people have forgotten how to think for themselves. They read any old repost on social media and take it for legitimate fact. The art of thought and careful consideration has disappeared. 

Is the wrong answer.

Loved Mock the Week a couple of weeks back, which is my go to programme if I need a laugh out loud.

They equated, generally the people who are as anti vaxxers look like the sort of people who would eat Iceland frozen sausages.

There's a school of thought that conspiracy theories are popular because they make stupid people/lazy thinkers feel intelligent without having to put the work in of a proper education. By discovering some 'truth' online, and not falling for the narrative promoted in the evil mainstream media, they are being the smart ones, proving their independent thinking skills. 

IMO, there is sometimes something in that, and there are definitely some people who think they have got one over on the man, and are vain enough to think they have outsmarted the sheeple, but a lot of the time these are people who don't trust the authorities for whatever reason, or who don't routinely watch the news or whose lives don't involve reading popular science books by responsible authors.

Scientific matters in particular seem to be a problem, because people tend to think that anything they don't understand must be wrong and an awful lot of science can be hard to get your head around unless you have a thorough knowledge of the concepts behind it. So instead of "Perhaps these people who have had an interest in science all their lives might understand it better than I do" it's "I don't see how vaccines can work so it's clearly a heinous scheme to pump my body full of demons".

The categories I saw were down to 50 year olds, they did say younger people would be done after that, as I think there was some mention at the beginning that under 50's were not being done

I have been pondering the decision and will have it.

Currently this new strain of the virus is out of control.

Although I had a scare (a reaction to the flu injection) I have kept to myself and am lucky enough to have not caught the virus but realise that if I want to travel anywhere or even return back home to visit my family, to avoid quarantine they're going to want to see paperwork confirming that you're Covid free.

For me, a 23-hour flight back to Sydney, Australia in a face mask is bad enough and then having to quarantine for two weeks on top of that is unbearable.

I'm hoping that they will prioritise distribution of the vaccine to areas where the new strain has become prevalent, in the hope of bringing it under control, but I can see that causing upset.

Not that I'm suggesting no vaccine to the rest of the country until London is saved, but there are parts of the country where the NHS is at severe risk of being overwhelmed, and I think only the most cold hearted Orcadians would demand they get priority.

People in rural areas were understandably angry at possibly diseased Londoners "escaping" to the country with the virus before Christmas, but I saw some comments that gave the impression they thought that the people who live in big houses with big gardens in small villages with one CO-OP, a pub with a substantial beer gardens and no public transport had 'worked harder' to suppress the virus than Londoners with their cramped housing, over-subscribed schools and the tube.

The most deprived, and most densely populated parts of the country have been hit the hardest, so I would be happy for those areas to get extra attention in terms of vaccine provision.

Just my initial reaction, but does that approach not need to assume that anybody of an ‘elderly age’ would shield and not go outside at all - that way the none vaccinated individual remains protected, or otherwise the non vaccinated person remains home indefinitely whilst the vaccinated person goes to do the shopping etc. The more ethical question that did come to mind was how would it be determined which individual of a pair would be vaccinated assuming there is no significant difference in the vulnerability of the two individuals - would it rely on randomness?

Well... I had the first dose yesterday! I work in a hospital where we have been vaccinating staff for a few weeks. Slots are available to book at a rate of 75% clinical and 25% non clinical but patient/public contact and I managed to get one by fortunately/unfortunately still being in the office at 9:00pm when the slots were released for this week!

I feel great, sore arm which is actually pretty sore but no sign of the headache they said I would most likely have today. I can't wait until everyone who wants one has had one. It's a great feeling.

I, too have had my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine today. I feel ok, just sore and a little tired. But I have been working for 4 long days straight as a nurse! Hopi g they roll out the vaccine to everyone soon and then life can start to return to normal!