Anyone else feel ashamed of getting the Covid shots?

CorneliusBrown

Dunno, I regret getting the shots and feel like I was bullied into taking a pharmaceutical product that was useless to me and in some cases harmful to others. I don’t refer to it as a vaccine anymore as to call it a vaccine stretches the meaning of the word imo. I guess I wish I had stood up more as I knew at the time that something was off with the whole thing and that the shots didn’t do what they said on the tin and that the maligning and social stigmatisation of the ‘unvaxxed’ was an ugly social phenomenon pushed principally by the media and politicians.

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CalamariFritti

Snowcat

endacl

No.

Allinall

No.

MJohnston

100% no.

HazeDoll

No.

Sconsey

No….also you don't understand the meaning of the word 'vaccine' by the looks of it, maybe take a break from the social media and conspiracy sites.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058356394/anyone-else-feel-ashamed-of-getting-the-covid-shots

No.

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058356394/anyone-else-feel-ashamed-of-getting-the-covid-shots

Are you ok now apart from the regret ?

MoodeRator

No!!!

Santan

I never got measles, I should never have got the vaccine, but seriously I know where you are coming from, my mate only today said he never got the covid vax and people were duped into getting it. I did by the way, thought it was the right thing to do

JamBur

No, there wasnt a huge outbreak of debilitating cases because most normal people took the vaccine.

As said previously, lay off the fake news being spread by conspiracy nut jobs

Baybay

No

DrPhilG

I don't feel ashamed, but in hindsight I'm not sure I would if I knew then what I know now.

The vaccine had it's purpose. The outcomes in phase 2 etc were much better and I believe that was a direct result of the vaccines. However I was in my early 40s with no comorbidities. I was not a high risk for serious issues from Covid. The main reason I got it was because I believed that it posed zero risk to me and because I believed that it would stop transmission and protect my elderly loved ones. That first point is debatable, and the second point was a flat out lie.

But why would I be ashamed that I was lied to and believed it?

tohaltuwi

No.

For a time SARS CoV2 was a potentially deadly disease for many, it took up weeks of ventilator space per patient seriously affected. Vaccines played a part into making it a more benign disease for most.

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058356394/anyone-else-feel-ashamed-of-getting-the-covid-shots

Get off the oul Facebook conspiracy groups OP, they clearly do your head no good.

Tork

Why are you even thinking about Covid and Covid vaccines 3½ years later? Nobody cares apart from conspiracy nuts who can't move past 2020.

Ubbquittious

They were a bit of a waste of time I think. Always a couple of variants behind what's actually circulating

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122275465#Comment_122275465

They accelerated the build up of systemic resistance which short circuited the lethality of the disease. Well worth having the vaccine for the greater public good.

banie01

No, not at all. They blunted a serious epidemic risk and did it in absolutely record time.

Its always healthy to ask questions OP but, for the sake of your mental health, be better at where and who you accept answers from. The "just asking questions" crowd that thrive on FB, telegram and the likes, rarely have answers that stand scrutiny or an understanding of evidence that hasn't been skewed.

Science isn't perfect, and on occasion what's been thought correct has been overturned by new research. The thing is though, the reason it works? Is that it depends on evidence and it's repeatability in experiments and secondary research.

Being sceptical and inquisitive matters, I won't knock anyone for that, but if your scepticism leads you down the path of hypothesis and baseless claims based on "Big pharma" or the "WEF"? It's probably going to your mental health more harm than good.

nachouser

Grifty youtubers aren't that great at the auld science, op.

Photobox

Not ashamed but felt pressured into getting them which I was not comfortable with at the time.

Sconsey

..as I knew at the time that something was off with the whole thing and that the shots didn’t do what they said on the tin…

What exactly did it say on the tin that the shots did not do? Contrary to Twitter-experts claiming Pfizer lied, the facts do not back-up the Twitter outrage….

https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/preventing-transmission-never-required-covid-vaccines-initial-approval-pfizer-2024-02-12/

MacDanger

No

kyote00

no. And my 5g is **** brilliant

Strumms

nope, never got Covid and haven’t even had a single symptom of a cold / virus since.

endacl

I presume the aul’ thread isn’t going the way you thought it would OP? 😂😂😂

yosser hughes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058356394/anyone-else-feel-ashamed-of-getting-the-covid-shots

How do you know it was 'useless' to you?

amdublin

No. I never caught covid. No colds or flu either - I always get the flu vac every year

teediddlyeye

My father had polio as a child, was lucky he could walk. Not a lot of people alive in Ireland today would have seen it first hand. Can't imagine anyone who would've seen the lack of muscle in his legs would hesitate taking the vaccine.

Anti vaxxers need a serious slap.

sprucemoose

its shocking to see that some people still dont understand how vaccination works…….

this might be one of the stupidest threads on this website, but no i dont feel 'ashamed' and anyone with any sort of brain in their head shouldnt

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122275439#Comment_122275439

The number one thing you could do at the time to reduce your risk of getting infected and passing on covid was to get vaccinated. Zero reason to be ashamed, zero reason to doubt you made the right call at the time.

In the early trials against alpha variant, it stopped transmission, because if you aren't infected, you can't pass it on.

Subsequent research showed the protection to be less than that, and less against later variants. But even then, vaccinated people were less likely to get infected and cleared infection from their systems more quickly than unvaccinated.

There was no lie, it was overtaken by events \ variants \ waning resistance.

Hontou

I'm in hospital at the moment with complications which may be linked to the vaccine, apparently. I never got Covid but if I did my health may be worse. I think both Covid and the vaccine were bad for us but taking the vaccine was the lesser of two evils, it seems.

Esel

I'm ashamed - for the OP….

snowcat

More to the point really is have you kept taking the vaccine? Seems to be a large proportion who took the first one under duress and suffered pretty bad side effects, possibly worse than Covid symptoms. Id say uptake is tiny for latest variant. Are the majority of people now vaccine sceptic?

Glencarraig

Tallaght Hospital closed to visitors due to a seven ward spread of Covid…….keep getting the jabs lads !!

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122275749#Comment_122275749

Are you a troll, or an actual crazy person?

EDIT: I have just looked at your post history. Aside from COVID and not believing the moon landings happened. It also looks like you are a pretty **** landlord. You are indeed a crazy person.

Jellybaby_1

No, not ashamed, just sad that I had to attend so many funerals.

Ezeoul

NO

CalamariFritti

It didnt do me any harm so no regrets and certainly not ashamed. I had covid a couple of times since and it wasnt a big deal. Was it because of the vaccine that it wasnt a big deal? Possibly but I somehow doubt it. We will never know and plenty seem very happy with that.

But the way it went and the way it was pushed with the threats and false promises certainly left a bad taste. As did most other 'symptoms' of the covid years. I dont care what anyone says none of it was anything to be proud of. Some sh1tshow this was and it deeply rocked my trust in government, institutions, media, supposed democracy and law and free speech and all the rest of it.

It also made me see for all our believe how cultivated and educated we are as a people when the right buttons are being pressed we will follow and shout for anything no matter how implausible and outright fvckwitted under the scrutiny of daylight.

jackboy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122275785#Comment_122275785

It looks like Covid is here to stay unfortunately and we will permanently be exposed to wave after wave. Luckily due to vaccines and infections herd immunity is now excellent. The variants will keep coming but will mostly be dangerous for the vulnerable only I hope.

snowcat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122275901#Comment_122275901

So are you up to date on your vaccines and if not why not? Are you a bit crazy too?

snowcat

It looks like Covid is here to stay unfortunately and we will permanently be exposed to wave after wave. Luckily due to vaccines and infections herd immunity is now excellent. The variants will keep coming but will mostly be dangerous for the vulnerable only I hope.

That was always the situation.

Sono

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122275458#Comment_122275458

exactly this, the only people still talking about Covid are the loopers

snowcat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122276015#Comment_122276015

Says the looper on the Covid thread.

snowcat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122275901#Comment_122275901

Questioning Science is one of the fundamentals of advancement of science. And I actually am a brilliant and highly successful landlord and never once had an rtb complaint with over 60 sitting happy tenants.

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122275991#Comment_122275991

Of course I am up to date.

I am not going to engage with you any further. I do not think it is healty for you. I would suggest that other posters do not engage with you and indulge you in your fantasies.

gneel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058356394/anyone-else-feel-ashamed-of-getting-the-covid-shots

I was against vaccine passports because I didn't think it would convince anyone to get the vaccine. Turns out I was wrong. Nice to know they actually worked.

GSBellew

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122275526#Comment_122275526

Where are these grey / green people? I have not seen any of these

Deep Thought

no..

am in the biotech space. What we saw early is what the world was like without one vaccine.

The crap I had to put up with was astonishing.. even from close friends.. and then throw in all the cancer conspiracy crap..

the whole thing also gave me an opportunity to dump a few “mates”

Deep Thought

that is hilarious alright..grey and green people

Buddy Bubs

Am I still vaccinated or do I need a booster to stay immune? I got it whenever everyone else did. I had covid before getting vaccine though.

I know covid still out there, not that I ever think about it, but if I'm not protected now (vaccine worn off, is that how it works?) what was the point in the first place?

I don't regret doing it, just wondering was there much point? I wouldn't be vulnerable category at all