I’m still contemplating getting the covid vaccine, but I’d like to know how it is before getting it. If you’ve gotten it, kindly share your experience pls.
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I’m still contemplating getting the covid vaccine, but I’d like to know how it is before getting it. If you’ve gotten it, kindly share your experience pls.
I have had the vaccine because I work in nursing and live in the UK. I chose to have it because I am 42 and have underlying health conditions. I have also seen first hand the Covid 19 virus effects and know it is, for some people a killer disease. With everything I have seen and heard, Covid19 is like russian roulette. If you get it, you do not know if it will just give you a mild illness or if it will kill you or leave you with life changing disabilities. I understand peoples fears surrounding vaccines but what I do not understand is their blatant non fear of the virus itself. The bigger threat is the virus, the bigger danger is the virus and I do not think people understand that the virus is going to be with us forever, it is never going to be fully eradicated so it is not a question of f you will be infected, it’s a question of when. We already know that you can catch it more than once but it is survivable and moreso if you have some immunity. I respect people’s view not to be vaccinated because of fear of the unknown but if you contract the virus and pass it to a family member who dies from it, you will have to live with that, just like the many thousands of people who have already done so. Current vaccines will not stop you contracting Covid 19 but they may help you lessen the effects when you do get it. For vulnerable people that could be life saving.
I got offered the vaccine just under a week ago, I think, and I’m honestly so impressed by how well organised the response has been, where I live.
There was quite a lot of people there, but I think the number of people within the building was carefully controlled, because there were a lot of absolutely wonderful volunteers around to keep track of when people arrived and left.
We got given some leaflets before we went in to get vaccinated, but we weren’t even made to wait around or anything – we just went straight ahead with it, so I didn’t even get a chance to read through them, but that honestly doesn’t bother me, since I was never all that worried in the first place.
But yeah, we got vaccinated straight away. My mum wanted me to go in first, even though she was actually booked in for before me, but this wasn’t a problem for anyone. I suppose she was probably quite scared at the time, until she saw me getting vaccinated – I think a lot of relatives have been telling her weird shady shit about the vaccine, which really annoys me, because what do they even know about it anyway? Unless they’ve actually had it, but everyone who’s gotten vaccinated (presumably) has a different experience afterwards.
It was honestly not a big deal for me – in fact, I was really excited! I suppose I’m just so used to having needles jammed all over me. The whole thing only lasts for about a few seconds, and the lady who administered the vaccine was so lovely!
It didn’t even leave a bruise either – just one tiny-arse little red dot the size of an atom where the needle went in. I didn’t even need a plaster or anything.