Originally Posted by
paulaf
In light of all this news today we will no longer be rushing to get our vaccines, in fact might even refuse it until I need it for selfish reasons for travel, not worried about the health aspects, we were going to have it as it seemed the right thing to do. Many of my friends in their 50s and 60s now also feel the same, what's the point if your life cannot get back to normal, the most vulnerable are now protected and millions more so by the end of March. Feel free to feed this back to HMG.
Thankfully I have no presonal experience of this, but many of those I'm working with in the vaccination centre have worked in intensive care units at places like the RVI and other local hospitals. The stories they give, of people in their 40s struggling to breathe hour after hour, are sobering. These patients do so on their own, their partners and children sit at home by the telephone in absolute terror. Do you want to join them? I don't, I have no underlying conditions (OK, a bit chunky) but I've had the vaccine. I am doing my absolute damnest to get you, me and everyone else flying again, as soon as possible. I'm only on here today since we don't have the vaccine supply for me to be working. Those nurses from Intensive Care are vaccinating to stop others from going through the same thing, even if it means they are working 80 hours a week. Now what can
you do to help us get through the worse crisis the UK has known since World War II? Four things: get the jab, don't get the disease, plan for the future, and wait serenely a few more months. Is that an unreasonable request? The sooner you wake up to that, the sooner you will get your life back.