Janet Street-Porter has argued that the elderly and unemployed should be among the first to receive the coronavirus vaccine, after frontline workers.
The Loose Women panellist, 71, told on today’s show it’s the ‘human right’ of those over 70 to receive the injection first because they are more susceptible to Covid-19, and have more ‘trouble shaking it off’ if they do become infected.
She went on to say unemployed people should be next to receive the jab, because many will have lost their jobs in wake of the pandemic and will be forced to leave their homes and ‘work really hard’ to try and find employment again.
I should probably have had the seasonal flu jab in December 2017 as I went down with a dose of flu in the January, just when my wife’s cancer meant that she needed full time care and we had to call upon family to step in.
Normally, though, I don’t bother. I just take the risk. Partly because I’m not in a high risk group and partly because I know that vaccines for corona viruses are a bit hit and miss. People seem to have convinced themselves that a vaccine will be some sort of magical cure. It won’t. It will help if you have the right mutation. If not, its effectiveness is moot.
And, no, I’m not an anti-vaxxer, I just realise that sometimes, they aren’t especially effective and RNA viruses are one such example.
Anyway does anyone give a flying one about what Janet Street Porter thinks about anything?
I think people need to weigh the risks against the benefits.
A risky vaccine for a dangerous disease, and it may be worth taking the risk with the vaccination. A risky vaccine for a (usually) non-life threatening disease, and it’s not worth the risk. This is especially so for the young and healthy. (I’m over 60)
I’m not anti-vax, but I’m against taking uneccesary and unworthwhile risks.
A novel vaccine rushed thorugh development and testing (shortcuts?) sounds quite risky to me, and I won’t be having it. I’d rather take the risk of the coronavirus (I think I’ve had it already, though).
I’ve never bothered with the flu vaccine – because I’ve never had flu (as far as I am aware). I asked my father, who’s in his 90’s, and he can’t remember ever having flu himself either. Maybe the male side of the family isn’t susceptible to such things? Having a flu vaccine to my mind would be like having a test to see if I had cervical cancer.
I won’t be bothering with the Covid19 vaccination either, unless it’s compulsory. Like KurtGeek, having weighed up all the evidence, I’m willing to take the risk.
I’m the same. As I mentioned in the post, I probably should have during the winter of 2017/18 because there was another risk – to my wife and I was her carer. As it was, I copped a dose of the flu that season. Oh well… I’m not inclined otherwise to have the vaccine. If I get it, I’ll go to bed for a couple of weeks and let it work its way out of my system. I usually get a dose every ten years or so.
Ditto, nothing else to add.
“Anyway does anyone give a flying one about what Janet Street Porter thinks about anything?”
A ‘QTWTAIN’ if ever I saw one!
Indeed.
There was some evil woman in the ‘graph advocating compulsory COVID-19 vaccination.
The irony of this being the same issue as the Chinese deathcamp story (where face nappies are made by slave labour for sale in UK) escaped her completely.
Methinks the lockdown is causing a major mental health crisis in newspaper hacks.
Just to add: I wonder what the reaction would be from said hack if a number of burly fellows held her down while someone stuck in a prick: you won’t feel a thing. Yet that she advocates for us all.
It isn’t violence if it’s being done to other people at her behest.
I remember JSP, didn’t she once make someone laugh on the Val Doonican show ?
My awareness of JSP is mostly down to Not The Nine O Clock News, where Pamela Stevenson used to impersonate her.
On flu jabs, being a diabetic I’ve been having them for about seven years now and they seem to be partially effective, as you would expect. I’m not very prone to colds and flu anyway and don’t get either very often.
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Janet Street Porter has always spoken complete bollocks.