Poll: Will you have the Vaccine?

Ditto on everything except "he" (and she needed two sticks).

yes unless I am told not to by a doctor. Both my parents are doctors and they said just to take the vaccine. I want to assure people no I do not get a special vaccine . I am on the spectrum. So if vaccines did cause autism. Well neither my parents who are both rich and doctors did not think it would or it had no link. So I doubt it does

Why isn't the flu vaccine provided to everyone ?

I think, after all the coverage of just how many people die from Flu in a 'normal' year (which I don't think was particularly widely known among the general public until it started being used as a reason not to worry about Coronavirus), that there will be more of a push in future to widen free availability of the Flu vaccine.

Though supply is an issue - there's obviously been a higher take-up than usual this year, and it's very hard to get booked in for one.

Talking about the Flu vaccine, senior management at the lab where I work arranged for a local nurse to come in over a few weeks to give the vaccine to those who wanted it. Certainly, looking at the list of staff who put their names forward there was certainly a big uptake. Maybe this is the sort of thing other organizations could look at not only for the Flu but also the COVID vaccine to help the vaccination process later on.

When I was at primary school, there was a case of polio reported among the people running a travelling fair, so all the kids in the places where it had been had to have the vaccine. I remember a huge line at my GP's surgery of all the schoolkids having it on a sugar lump. 

Yeah, TB I think - I remember that one, it was like a big pepperpot.

Hopefully they do abandon the policy but that wasnt the plan last month: www.ft.com/content/d2e00128-7889-4d5d-84a3-43e51355a751

I feel our understanding of the virus and effects is progressing to a point where it is blindingly obvious we need a good 90% of the population vaccinated for it to actually work (plus effects of long covid, private companies choosing not to hire staff they think of as a risk, events including theatres refusing patrons, countries closing borders to the unvaccinated etc) I suspect that will change. But to do it quickly and well then it is going to cost a sh*t ton, and if the government donors can't skim 20% of the money then will they bother to crack on or just drag it out for a few years and save the cash? Time will tell.

My memory of the TB jab is that the five dot thing was a precursor to the actual vaccine being administered. I can't remember which way round it was, but if you reacted one way, I'm sure you were deemed to already have sufficient antibodies.

As it turned out, the actual injection wasn't anything like as painful as we all imagined, but being 10, we didn't half work ourselves into a right lather.

ETA: You posted while I was still writing, christya. Your experience sounds the same as mine. 🙂

When I had the polio booster as a teenager I was deeply hacked off to find there was no sugar lump, just liquid squirted down the back of one's throat. It tasted disgusting & I thought it was far worse than having the other boosters injected at the same time. I don't recall being too worried about having the TB jab personally but evidently others were as I vividly remember walking into the school hall to have it done & there being several girls laid out on matresses, like a field hospital! I suspect they were collapsing due to axiety & perhaps mass hysteria rather than any actual physical effects of having the vaccie, as I strongly doubt any vaccine could cause side effects that quickly.

NB to opera directors: when you're directing a film of an opera where the heroine dies of TB, don't having your leading lady in a sleeveless bodice so on her bare arm the scar from her TB jab is clearly visible!

People in this thread are conflating anti-vaxers in general with people who are anti this particular vaccine. For example the MMR has been around for years, has been administered 500 million times and thus is known to be safe. It would be foolish to refuse it. However this vaccine has been around for a few months and has been tested on less than 100,000 people, it also uses an entirely new technology which has never been been approved before. For higher risk people it would seem obvious to take it - for young people at little risk from the disease itself the decision is less clear. There is no real downside for them to wait a few years before deciding, to see how safe this vaccine is in practice or to wait for a “conventional” vaccine (not based on genetic modification techniques) to come along. In the case of children I think it might even be medically unethical to give it to them unless the protection it offered was permanent.