Vaccine Megathread No 2 - Read OP before posting

Swaine wrote: »

Incredible.

You do realise an actual person has to cancel your other appointments. Can you not just wait rather than inundating various places which are already run off their feet? :rolleyes:

The pharmacy's are being paid to do this. No sympathy for people 'run off their feet'.

Anyone who wants to be vaccinated ASAP should register everywhere they can!

FrStone wrote: »

The pharmacy's are being paid to do this. No sympathy for people 'run off their feet'.

Anyone who wants to be vaccinated ASAP should register everywhere they can!

Totally agree, do what you can to get in as early as possible. I registered with a few pharmacies yesterday, got a call late last night from the first place I registered with for the J&J on Monday, cancelled the others.

growleaves wrote: »

Yes I know what this is. He thinks that you will be "shedding" for two weeks and he will suffer whatever side effects from the vaccine you might or might not have.

P.s. don't shoot the messenger, I'm helping you out with an explanation not presenting it as my own opinion

Thank you, I suspected it was going to be something like this unfortunately.

cgcsb wrote: »

I've registered at multiple pharmacies and I'll just take whichever offers me an appointment first and cancel the others so someone else can get it, nothing wrong with that. I'll also be registering on the hse portal as soon as its open and take whichever comes first.

I've no issues if you actually cancel but the majority of people in my experience aren't decent enough to cancel free appointments but it also increases workloads for everyone involved. People are keen to get the vaccine, not a bad thing at all and I'd very much register with a pharmacy and the HSE myself just not multiple pharmacies

Every pharmacy regardless of size Is getting 50 vaccines, smaller pharmacies are your best bet tbh

seamus wrote: »

This known as a false equivalency.

It's like saying "Walking on the motorway is risky, but walking on the path is also risky, therefore it's perfectly rational to choose one or the other"

Covid: 183m cases, 4m deaths
Vaccine: 3.2bn doses, 1,000 deaths, maybe?

The risk profiles aren't even on the same planet

That's a valid point.
But u're not guaranteed to get Covid as the starting point of the risk profile.

So I think better comparison would be :
Deaths/complications in under 40 for Covid
Adverse effects in under 40s for vaccine

Get the jab done
Weekend vaccine clinics in Northern Ireland
Just walk in with ID and get vaccine of choice.



How far realistically are we away from that here. Perhaps two to three weeks?

Number of eligible 18-34 year olds - 800,000
Already done through GPs - 200,000
Remaining 600,000
Number who would take vaccine 500,000

35-44 years olds registered awaiting vaccine 130,000

So maybe 630,000 first doses left to do.

With pharmacies set to give 150,000 Jansen over new few weeks
GPs to give maybe 100,000 first doses
300 pharmacies to give up to 100,000 pfizer .
That only leaves about 300,000 for the MVCs maximum.

By next Friday 35-44 yrs old first doses substantially completed
Maybe 100K 30-34 year old might register. A week later open MVC registration to everyone over 18.

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john_doe. wrote: »

I think this is the issue, everyone is being labelled antivax for voicing any concern.
As I've said I've taken my first dose of Pfizer but I think the risk factor for under 40s is relatively low for Covid to begin with.

There are an awful lot of unknowns, how long it lasts, immunity to variants. Long-term side affects etc. Discussion on mixing vaccines , allowing under 40 the astra vax shows me this is still very immature.

Getting covid is a risk , getting the vaccine is also a risk. It's a personal choice , as I say my wife had Covid and was fine. Hope the vaccine safety long term is okay. It's still emergency use approved by FDA after all. But people shud be allowed to discuss it.
Swine flu vax done damage in past and everyone thought was safe.

This just seems like an anti-vax post in disguise. The pandemerix vaccine was made a totally different way to covid, and the issues with that and children were identified in a couple of months. The approved vaccines have been studied over more than a year now, the technology behind them for like a decade, and any identified risks are minimal and mainly affect younger people or the terminally-ill (who are no longer given it if they exceed a "frailty" score).

The risk from any of the vaccines is incomparable to the risk of covid, all the long term conditions that come from covid too, it's a completely flawed risk assessment if that's how you view it. All you're doing is looking at a few hypotheticals and ignoring the obvious benefits both for you and for society.

cgcsb wrote: »

This thread has been a great resource of information for me and many others trying to get the vaccine as quick as possible. I, and assume most others, don't want pages wasted with irrelevant 'debates' about conspiracies. I'd go to conspiracy thread if I wanted to read that stuff.

Which is why I find it odd that the mods decided to close down the other thread discussing people not taking the vaccine. Now all these “anti-Vax” posts are in this thread instead.

Do you think everyone who won’t take the vaccine is automatically an anti vaxxer conspiracy theorist?

anyone know what age they are down to for second vax of astra zeneca ,??
mother and father 64 and 59 still waiting, both past the 8 week stage..

Call from Boots.

J&J appointment confirmed for Tuesday.

Age 32, appointment in Tipperary.

So they ain't all cancelled.

Should I have a few Paracetamol before and after the jab?

Acosta wrote: »

Should I have a few Paracetamol before and after the jab?

I was in a pharmacy last weekend picking up some paracetamol. Was told not to take it before the vaccine and my side effects were minimal that I didn't need it after the vaccine either. Worth having a box at home just in case though.

duffman13 wrote: »

I've no issues if you actually cancel but the majority of people in my experience aren't decent enough to cancel free appointments but it also increases workloads for everyone involved. People are keen to get the vaccine, not a bad thing at all and I'd very much register with a pharmacy and the HSE myself just not multiple pharmacies

Every pharmacy regardless of size Is getting 50 vaccines, smaller pharmacies are your best bet tbh

I've no guarantee that any one pharmacy will ever have a dose for me. Of course I'd cancel the other ones.

robinbird wrote: »

No. We don't.
First doses only.
There are 130k 35-44 yrs olds registered left to do which should be done next week.
After that there is only the 18-34 yr olds
Figure for this cohort is 800k. However about at least 20% have already been done through GPs over last few months.
So number left is far less. Thats why HSEs talk of opening up portal to 20s in August makes no sense.

According to the CSO estimates I have there are a little over 1m 18-34s.

Age group Thousands
15 - 19 years 323.9
20 - 24 years 307.2
25 - 29 years 292.2
30 - 34 years 324