The Covid thread

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[quote author=YamFazFan link=topic=26604.msg326034#msg326034 date=1623535136]
Government shouldn't take those who were eligible for a vaccination, but refused it, into account in any way when it comes to lockdown decisions.

That would be short-sighted and self-defeating, especially if the vaccine may be less effective to a more highly contagious variant.

Yes, some people may have refused the vaccine because of anti-vax nonsense, but some communities may have more people being "vaccine hesitant" because of misinformation (accidental or even deliberate) or because of a simple lack of trust in the authorities because they remember the number of times they have been screwed over by British governments in the past.

To adopt a "screw you, I'm alright Jack" mentality is selfish and discriminatory and will do little to encourage those people who are vaccine hesitant to change their minds because they'll be more likely to think "Here we go again, being treated as worthless by an establishment that never cared about us in the first place".
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The government are doing everything possible to accommodate everyone with these vaccines, with back up by scientists, to make them as safe as can be for the UK's general population. Like with the blood clot scenario with the AZ jabs, they don't even offer these to the younger generations now, under a certain age, who were the ones most affected.
The only people being selfish right now are the people that are mixed up in their heads and refusing the vaccines and still spreading the virus about. These very same people are the ones holding the UK back to moving on to some sort of normality which is so obviously becoming desperately needed.
If thousands of people were dropping down dead or becoming desperately ill because of the vaccine then i would totally sympathise.....but they simply aren't. And anyone becoming ill due to side effects are no different to most other over the counter things we buy that come with a warning. All prescribed drugs from the doctors have a leaflet with a long list of side effects, but when you're ill you take your chance that they're very highly likely going to make you better rather than harm you in any way.
So in this instance i would most certainly say that the selfish ones are definitely not the ones who have done their bit for society, and welcomed the chance of having vaccines to protect themselves AND others, but most certainly the ditherers, non believers and small minded people that continue to bring this country to its knees by refusing their jabs, not only prolonging everyone else's misery, but heightening the chance of yet another wave, along with job losses too when many businesses cannot take any more closures over something that will never ever totally go away.