I don't want a "3rd" vaccine

"Don't blame the workers".....these were nurses, healthcare professionals. I find it a bit off that they have such a lack of interest or knowledge n what they are doing that they were either unaware, or pretended not to know, that the government had decided in April that Covid recoverees only needed 1 shot but then seem to have shelved this plan without any notice given to the public. This was the biggest news story of the day when it broke in late April, for the two nurses to either have no knowledge of it, or pretend that they didn't, is a staggering lack of understanding of one's own job. You wouldn't trust a mechanic who was unaware of any new standards the NCT had recently put out, why is this any different?

I find it difficult to believe that given 1 in 30 odd vaccine recipients would have caught Covid in 2021, that they were not asked this question several times by said recovered people.

Not good enough, but it is the standard you come to expect off public services in this country.

You sound like that Pete Lunn fella from the ESRI, going on the radio every few weeks with his surveys showing 96% restriction compliance and that most people have apparently actually quite enjoyed lockdown.

Out there in the real world, away from the restrictions threads, I don't know a single person who thinks that we have been told the full truth about Covid, at least anybody under 60. These stretch from believing its threat has been wildly exaggerated for political ends (myself, and probably the most popular opinion) to thinking the thing doesn't exist (which is clearly bollix). Anybody with half a brain can see NPHET used it to wage war on our pub culture. Micheal Martin inadvertently admitted that we would have ended up in the same place by taking the Swedish approach. I actually feel sorry for you, I really do.

I would say men are far more likely to hold these opinions than women, whether that's because men tend to be more mathematical and thus interested in reading the balanced figures reporting on gript.ie and the likes who knows.

The views on this thread are deeply concerning tbh.

There are people here who see no issue with the government announcing in April that only one shot of an experimental emergency approved vaccine, with rare but known serious side effects including death, was required, but then quietly rescinded this with seemingly no public announcement on the issue. An infection and a shot were considered double vaxxed in April, now to get my cert I have to essentially be triple vaxxed, within 12 or so weeks?

As said I deliberately didn't bother going for a J and J as I felt I would be wasting it as a Covid recovered person. More fool me for playing ball.

There are people who think it's perfectly acceptable for healthcare professionals to have such little knowledge of their own brief that they were either unaware this decision was ever made or pretend they never heard of it and treat the patient as if they had read it on Gemma O'Doherty's posts rather than on the IT and RTE.

In April 2020 you couldn't find a single expert who believed a vaccine would be available in under three years. Some speculated that one might never be developed- after all there is none for Ebola, HIV, etc they said.

A few months later we are told the vaccine has always existed, it's a SARS vaccine that just needs a bit of tweaking and we're ready to go by November (3 days after Trump was voted out, no less.)

Nobody is arguing that the vaccine works, or adversely effects a large proportion of people. But you would want to be some fool to believe everything about it. And yes, my only reason for taking it is to get my freedoms back, as sad as that is that the government can hold us over such a barrel.