How Likely Are You To Take The Covid Vaccine?

Stig

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

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

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

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

Not sure. I believe in vaccines but not in them being rushed into use without extensive safety checks.

ElliotCAFC

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

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

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

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

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.

Wheresmeticket

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

Over 100 LOLs of this comment and I'll have it

rananegra

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

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.

CAFCsayer

I wasn’t allowed to say anything until today, but it's okay for me to share that I have volunteered for the Covid-19 vaccine trials that a local Hospital are running in partnership with Pfizer. It's important that we all do our part to beat this virus.

The vaccine is the one that has been developed in Russia. I received my first dose this morning 09:20am, and I wanted to let you all know that it’s completely safe, with иo side effects whatsoeveя, and that I feelshκι я чувю себя немного стрно и я думю, что вытл осные уши. чувству себя немго страо

Covered End

Sayer shared a photo of his feet with me. 

Bedsaddick

I can’t wait to take it. 

I’ve not heard a convincing argument yet for why you wouldn’t take the vaccine . 

Redrobo

.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

I'm impressed at the survey results so far

MattF

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

Chizz

Already working on getting my birth certificate changed so I can jump a few categories and get it sooner. 

captainbob

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

Currently participating in a trial for Novavax. I have 100% confidence in the company and their scientists.

cafcsinger

U've got to be completely barmy not to have it imo

Todds_right_hook

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

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

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

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

What's actually in the vaccine? Any animal substances?

hoof_it_up_to_benty

addick1956 said:

Stig said:

With the NHS on standby to start Covid vaccinations in December, how likely would you be to take the vaccine if you had the chance? (Please note this poll is anonymous).

I can't  see why people wouldn't.  Polio  TB Tetanus, Cholera,  Typhoid, Yellow Fever, Blackwater Fever, Measles , Mumps , Smallpox  Flu, Pneumonia all have vaccines. Now however 10% of population are acting like luddites

I've never met an intelligent anti-vaxxer. They tend to get their info off Facebook friends 

They'll argue passionately against vaccines but invariably have no evidence to back it up. Surprising how many of these morons exist.