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It's an extremely small percentage of adults that cannot have the vaccine on medical advice, though. And if we ever reach the point where they comprise a substantial portion of the unvaccinated, we'll have long since moved past the need for any restrictions at all.

 

Yeah cos there's no in between like.

 

Never said otherwise. Just saying it was incorrect that everyone has a choice.

 

Or maybe not enough young adults have chosen to have the vaccine.

 

If we take out conspiracy theories and not trusting the government, I can't see the issue with it. It is not that you are having your civil liberties removed, it is just saying that if you want to be in a crowd of 20,000+, then you have to be double vaccinated. I would have an issue if it was imposed for shopping of going to the pub.

I know we can all say ah but will it stop there, but sometimes there is no sinister motive and perhaps it is just the right/best thing to do?

 

Heading towards?

 

Fair point well made. Probably not best choice of words, I still don't like the idea of it though.

 

I am puzzled by the low vaccination rate in Japan when the olympics was about to descend on them. Since they were rightly concerned about the possibility of a rise in infection rates, you would think the locals would rush to be vaccinated.

 

Give everyone Astra Zeneca and be done with it.

 

Except that it can cause blood clots in younger people.

 

Exactly. I would have had serious doubts about having the jab if only that one was offered to me.

 

But the risk of clots from having covid 19 is 8 times than having the Astra Zeneca jab.
https://news.sky.com/story/risk-of-...her-than-after-astrazeneca-jab-study-12276088

 

I take your point, but for under 30’s having the Pfizer jab is obviously the way to go. Safer than AZ, and MUCH better than getting Covid.

 

Are the low numbers of daily first jabs being administered due to the lack of population over 18 that haven't had the vaccine yet, or is it because the 18+ population are choosing not to have it? If there is a genuine 'threat' that vaccine passports will be needed to travel or go to crowded events, even nightclubs then you would think that this would cause an increase in uptake among the young that are avoiding having it.

Good job there are multiple vaccines developed. Makes sense for the younger populations to have Pfizer, however the blood clot risk was not nearly high enough for it to greatly cause me concern if AZ was the only option. I would still have had that without hesitation. Though I'm glad to have had Pfizer with lower risk, because why wouldn't you take the lowest risk option.

 

Really? We already have a significant majority of the UK population vaccinated, yet plenty of voices can be heard calling for restrictions to be reinstated, or not relaxed so quickly.

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54.6% of the population is fully vaccinated. That's good, but the percentage with two doses needs to at least reach the current percentage with one dose. A single dose offers pretty limited protection against the new variants, and spurring the approx. 15% of people who got one dose but not two, and the further 30% of adults who haven't gotten a single jab, is job one right now.

 

Not going to lie feel crappy after jab 2 but I wouldn't not get it done

 

I ran a pretty decent fever for a day after my second jab, and every joint ached. Smallest price for largest benefit, that.

 

I felt **** after jab one. Didn't even notice jab two.