Covid-19 Vaccine - Page 2

I'm wondering why take-up seems low among frontline Health staff. Can't all be about time to get it done or age Groups.

Yes I find that strange. Surely seeing the effects of covid first hand would make them eager to be vaccinated. I know a lady who works in a care home and she's adamant she won't get the vaccine ! When I asked her why, all she could say is "I don't want to, and I won't be forced to " ! Selfish ? Stupid ? Believing the anti vac. squad ? I don't understand.

When I worked as a community nurse, I was REQUIRED to get vaccinated for the flu every year! It should be mandatory for ALL frontline health care workers!

Also, I don't have time to look it up, but I believe that proof of vaccination for certain diseases is REQUIRED for entry into certain countries. And it won't suprise me at all if that becomes true for COVID, once borders open back up!

Brady Bee, I'm not sure what the problem is with the vaccine rollout in Canada. I think part of it is Ontario's premier is a dick... :-( Ontario is definitely lagging behind some of the other provinces.

 

Another strange thing on this mornings news - and really local to me - is that Berkshire is in the bottom 20% of takeup; I used to live immediately across the Thames in Berkshire, I now live in Oxfordshire, where our take-up, certainly in immediately local areas (not sure about the whole Oxon county), is doing very well. Nobody seems to know why, yet.

I am sure that with the health workers' apparent reluctance, there is an element of the 'BAME effect' with so many frontline workers being people of colour and there still being so much misinformation around; but that canot be the whole story (and is surely not the problem in Berkshire, where although there are large Asian populations, the county as a whole is white-populated and expensive !).

Some people, of course, are just terrified of needles !

Not keen on needles myself but it wouldn't stop me getting vaccinations. Just look the other way and think about winning the lottery, lol,lol.

Lol mrdarcy, that's exactly what I intend to do. Sunny, I laughed at your dick comment. We have a good few of those here too lol.
I really can't understand why anyone is reluctant to have the vaccine, apart from having a needle phobia. If it's all down to misinformation, why do they believe it, yet don't believe the government /scientists. I just can't get my head round it. Especially when it appears to be those that have been badly affected by the virus, that are reluctant.
I have read talk of making it mandatory for Health Care workers, but I can't see that happening. I might be wrong. If people want to go abroad I'm sure they'll have to show proof that they've had the vaccine, which is fair enough, but I can't see that being used domestically. Untill the young ones get vaccinated the pubs and clubs would be full of oldies lol . like me !

I'm a retired nurse, and have given many needles, but I STILL look away when someone is poking me! Can't bear to watch...

It helps a bit if you don't tense up in anticipation of the jab, I think, so that's one reason for not watching.

Lol I'm a retired Dental Nurse and it never bothered me seeing someone else get the needle. I don't even mind dental injections on myself either , probably because I close my eyes and don't see 'the approach ' lol. Those needles are far more painful than any I've had elsewhere on my body lol

Why do they always tell you that you are going to feel a 'sharp scratch' ? I'm fine looking away and letting them get on with it; I only tense up 'cos someone says I'm about to feel that ! 99% of the time they are good enough at it that I don't actually feel anything anyway ;-)