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How Likely Are You To Take The Covid Vaccine?

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,045
    Redrobo said:
    letthegoodtimesroll said:
    Have the vaccine, get back to the Valley
    One does wonder if having the vaccine will result in some advantages in society. Plane travel, attending large events, small events (like Millwall away), hotels etc.

    Not sure how well that would go down.
    I really do hope that (in the early days at least) vaccination is officially sanctioned as a passport to a freer way of life. I suspect it won't be though and like the situation with easy-breathing mask abstainers, we'll be told we can't discriminate against the feckless and the selfish. 

    On a positive note, I'm really pleased to see such a positive response to vaccination on here. If that's replicated across the wider population, we have a reasonable chance of beating the virus. 
  • SouthWest_Addicks
    SouthWest_Addicks Posts: 6,307
    Stig said:
    Redrobo said:
    letthegoodtimesroll said:
    Have the vaccine, get back to the Valley
    One does wonder if having the vaccine will result in some advantages in society. Plane travel, attending large events, small events (like Millwall away), hotels etc.

    Not sure how well that would go down.
    I really do hope that (in the early days at least) vaccination is officially sanctioned as a passport to a freer way of life. I suspect it won't be though and like the situation with easy-breathing mask abstainers, we'll be told we can't discriminate against the feckless and the selfish. 

    On a positive note, I'm really pleased to see such a positive response to vaccination on here. If that's replicated across the wider population, we have a reasonable chance of beating the virus. 
    I’ll be at the bottom of the list because I’m young and healthy. Got to be about tens of millions of people who would be vaccinated before someone like me. I would argue that being selfish would putting me at the top of list, so I can go back to watching Charlton etc. 
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,466
    I don’t understand the “will wait til I know it’s safe” comments. Do people who say things like this not understand how many steps and trials a vaccine (let alone this one) has to go through before it’s even considered ready to be administered?
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,333
    Stig said:
    Redrobo said:
    letthegoodtimesroll said:
    Have the vaccine, get back to the Valley
    One does wonder if having the vaccine will result in some advantages in society. Plane travel, attending large events, small events (like Millwall away), hotels etc.

    Not sure how well that would go down.
    I really do hope that (in the early days at least) vaccination is officially sanctioned as a passport to a freer way of life. I suspect it won't be though and like the situation with easy-breathing mask abstainers, we'll be told we can't discriminate against the feckless and the selfish. 

    On a positive note, I'm really pleased to see such a positive response to vaccination on here. If that's replicated across the wider population, we have a reasonable chance of beating the virus. 
    We are obviously looking ahead to when everyone has had a chance to be vaccinated, but the way they would do it is to say you can fly if you have had one, if not, you have to take a test which will cost £200, and another one five days after you have arrived and only then will you be allowed out of your hotel room.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    Not sure. I believe in vaccines but not in them being rushed into use without extensive safety checks.
  • ElliotCAFC
    ElliotCAFC Posts: 2,553
    JaShea99 said:
    I don’t understand the “will wait til I know it’s safe” comments. Do people who say things like this not understand how many steps and trials a vaccine (let alone this one) has to go through before it’s even considered ready to be administered?
    Under normal circumstances, yes. These are not normal times and this drug has been rushed through as fast as possible. 

    If you read beyond the headlines you’ll see that these are preliminary results and we certainly need a good few more months worth of data before authorities start processing it for approval, which that in itself will take several weeks.

    Shaming people for not immediately putting all their faith in the authorities who have botched almost everything since the start of the pandemic isn’t helping anything.  

    Nevertheless, it’s very positive signs for this and future COVID vaccines. 
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    JaShea99 said:
    I don’t understand the “will wait til I know it’s safe” comments. Do people who say things like this not understand how many steps and trials a vaccine (let alone this one) has to go through before it’s even considered ready to be administered?
    The steps and trials you talk about are rarely, if ever, completed in less than a year. More usually 15 - 20 years.

    There is a big question mark for me about taking it before all possible side effects are quantified and risk assessed.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,033
    iainment said:
    Not sure. I believe in vaccines but not in them being rushed into use without extensive safety checks.
    They have had extensive safety checks and are a few weeks from completing the extensive safety checks.
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,333
    iainment said:
    JaShea99 said:
    I don’t understand the “will wait til I know it’s safe” comments. Do people who say things like this not understand how many steps and trials a vaccine (let alone this one) has to go through before it’s even considered ready to be administered?
    The steps and trials you talk about are rarely, if ever, completed in less than a year. More usually 15 - 20 years.

    There is a big question mark for me about taking it before all possible side effects are quantified and risk assessed.
    It would be interesting to know peoples ages. I am 65 and do not want to waste life in lockdown or risk dying. The vaccine offers the chance to live a life, I understand the risk but I am in.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,033
    edited November 2020
    iainment said:
    JaShea99 said:
    I don’t understand the “will wait til I know it’s safe” comments. Do people who say things like this not understand how many steps and trials a vaccine (let alone this one) has to go through before it’s even considered ready to be administered?
    The steps and trials you talk about are rarely, if ever, completed in less than a year. More usually 15 - 20 years.

    There is a big question mark for me about taking it before all possible side effects are quantified and risk assessed.
    I've listened to numerous experts and they all say the trials have been as extensive as usual.
    They had more people to trial it from the start, over 40,000 I believe from 6 countries.

    Instead of getting approval and then starting production months later, the vaccines have already been produced, hoping they will be approved and thus savings months and lives.

    I've listened to untold experts saying it will be safe if approved and on that basis I'm convinced.

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  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    edited November 2020
    iainment said:
    JaShea99 said:
    I don’t understand the “will wait til I know it’s safe” comments. Do people who say things like this not understand how many steps and trials a vaccine (let alone this one) has to go through before it’s even considered ready to be administered?
    The steps and trials you talk about are rarely, if ever, completed in less than a year. More usually 15 - 20 years.

    There is a big question mark for me about taking it before all possible side effects are quantified and risk assessed.
    Unfortunately we are in a position in which the risks of waiting several years, bearing in mind that over 50 thousand people have died in 8 months in a country  of 60 million - outweigh the risks of a vaccine that has been tested less rigorously than is usual.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Over 100 LOLs of this comment and I'll have it
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,694
    I put quite likely. I'm not against it at all, just likely to be a long way down the queue (mid 50s, healthy). I think it should definitely be prioritised according to need and my need is less.  How good the vaccination programme is will depend on who does it: the government don't have a good record on Covid-related contracts. 
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    Redrobo said:
    iainment said:
    JaShea99 said:
    I don’t understand the “will wait til I know it’s safe” comments. Do people who say things like this not understand how many steps and trials a vaccine (let alone this one) has to go through before it’s even considered ready to be administered?
    The steps and trials you talk about are rarely, if ever, completed in less than a year. More usually 15 - 20 years.

    There is a big question mark for me about taking it before all possible side effects are quantified and risk assessed.
    It would be interesting to know peoples ages. I am 65 and do not want to waste life in lockdown or risk dying. The vaccine offers the chance to live a life, I understand the risk but I am in.
    I’m 65 also.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,033
    Sayer shared a photo of his feet with me. 
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,767
    I can’t wait to take it. 
    I’ve not heard a convincing argument yet for why you wouldn’t take the vaccine . 
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,333
    .iainment said:
    Redrobo said:
    iainment said:
    JaShea99 said:
    I don’t understand the “will wait til I know it’s safe” comments. Do people who say things like this not understand how many steps and trials a vaccine (let alone this one) has to go through before it’s even considered ready to be administered?
    The steps and trials you talk about are rarely, if ever, completed in less than a year. More usually 15 - 20 years.

    There is a big question mark for me about taking it before all possible side effects are quantified and risk assessed.
    It would be interesting to know peoples ages. I am 65 and do not want to waste life in lockdown or risk dying. The vaccine offers the chance to live a life, I understand the risk but I am in.
    I’m 65 also.
    Waiting until one is 80 - 85 seems pointless.

    As I said earlier, if they start with the aged and the ill we will soon know. Reading the science behind the vaccine it sounds exciting. They think they may come up with a way of tackling cancer using the same process.

    Egyptian immigrant couple behind this development. Very modest nice guy who may just have saved the World.
  • Siv_in_Norfolk
    Siv_in_Norfolk Posts: 4,058
    I'm impressed at the survey results so far
  • MattF
    MattF Posts: 3,797
    I will definitely have it when I'm eligible, but am almost certainly at the bottom of the pile when it comes to priority so that's easy for me to say

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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,344
    Already working on getting my birth certificate changed so I can jump a few categories and get it sooner. 
  • captainbob
    captainbob Posts: 946
    I had a rare vaccine injected when I was 3-years-old and it has been amazingly effective. It vaccinated me against ever becoming a Millwall supporter. I don't even check their position in the league tables. There was only one permanent and miserable side-effect: I became a Charlton supporter.
  • Suttonaddick
    Suttonaddick Posts: 24
    Currently participating in a trial for Novavax. I have 100% confidence in the company and their scientists.
  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,552
    U've got to be completely barmy not to have it imo
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,887
    How many people have received the trial vaccine, 200,000? And 0 deaths?

    compare that with Austria who have had 200,000 covid cases and nearly 6,000 deaths.

    on that basis, it’s a yes from me
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,691
    Redrobo said:
    iainment said:
    JaShea99 said:
    I don’t understand the “will wait til I know it’s safe” comments. Do people who say things like this not understand how many steps and trials a vaccine (let alone this one) has to go through before it’s even considered ready to be administered?
    The steps and trials you talk about are rarely, if ever, completed in less than a year. More usually 15 - 20 years.

    There is a big question mark for me about taking it before all possible side effects are quantified and risk assessed.
    It would be interesting to know peoples ages. I am 65 and do not want to waste life in lockdown or risk dying. The vaccine offers the chance to live a life, I understand the risk but I am in.
    At 66 I feel the same.  Although reasonably robust, these are the twilight years and they are being squandered. 

    On the other hand I know a young woman who has serious reservations. Her life is in front of her, she is presently in a low risk group, has hopes of starting a family and doubts the relevant antenatal data exists.  Her view at this stage is to not put her future hopes and dreams to chance.

     
  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    Voted quite likely as it all depends on if a vaccine gets past the phase 3 stage. If any does then absolutely I would. We're still at a stage now that we don't really know if its safe or how effective, all the signs are positive though and if any of them get approved then I'd change my answer to very likely. 
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,333
    If 80 to 90% are vaccinated I would guess the remaining population will either not get it due to herd immunity, get COVID and therefore be immune (and maybe very ill), or die. 
    Will it die out like polio? 
  • thewolfboy
    thewolfboy Posts: 2,930
    What's actually in the vaccine? Any animal substances?
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