Was in the office earlier this week and someone asked if I was going to take the vaccine, I said yes and the other few people present also said yes but the person who asked the question then started to name people who weren't going to have it and still believe that CV19 doesn't exist
Notably it did seem as if a lot of the Polish are against it, not sure if that is still a throwback to the bad old days of communism but these people probably aren't even old enough to remember back that far
I believe that very often the flu vaccine is only somewhere like 40-60% effective so if the CV19 vaccines are 90%+ then that's pretty amazing really.
In terms of it being fast tracked in 10 months rather than 10 years and as a result not having been tested properly I did hear that in pure number of tests it's been tested more than normal but what they can't replicate is what effect or side effects it may have over a longer timeframe, hence the emergency use and legal indemnity
My concern is whether we will get herd immunity if enough of the Anti Vaxing brain dead social media followers choose not to take it because it's got a micro chip in it
If that is the case then they effectively kill a % of those people for whom the vaccine doesn't work or who can't take it for other medical reasons, cunts
Between April and now I've been down into London three times on public transport, on each occasion I used mainline Rail and some Tube trains. A couple of those times there were groups of EE, definitely Romanian, four or five of them, all blabbering and babbling across the carriage at each other with no masks on, shouting of course because of the noise
. Obviously the Underground is a multinational/multicultural/multiethnic maelstrom (that's great, London's better for it) but they simply didn't give a shit. people were trying to avoid them, they'd walk in the carriage, see what was going on and then try and go elsewhere - or even change carriages - making it more crowded elsewhere
. Similarly, on every occasion, quite a few Black kids, and bearing in mind all the hoo-hah about the
Racism of Covid, not very clever
. Everyone else was complying, various ages, various backgrounds
.
I also had a trip to Southend and went on the Pier Railway, there was another group of Roms on a day out, a couple of mothers with all their kids, again, totaly ignoring the fucking rules. I was with an ageing relative and when they got on I said my piece and we were out of there. Come to our country, obey our fucking rules.
Herd immunity will happen with the coming vaccines, but the lower the take-up the longer it will take to happen. Thankfully they seem to be around 90% effective overall, so even if only 50-60% of people do the right thing, we should be OK I think? And as I've said before, those that don't take the vaccine are fucking themselves and potentially their own families, not so much other people. It's not like MMR and other vaccines which young kids need, where your kids' safety is reliant on other parents doing the right thing, Covid in the vast majority of cases, barely even touches children. Thank God.