Nah, it will have no effect on me.
Free Covid boosters and flu jabs will be axed for middle aged Brits this winter.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) issued its NHS guidance on Tuesday stating Covid-19 top up jabs from autumn will no longer be offered to otherwise healthy people aged 50 to 64.
Similar advice had already been published for flu, meaning 12 million middle aged Brits will no longer be eligible for the free jabs. It follows reports the NHS will delay vaccine rollout with the drive not set to step up until October to maximise protection for over-65s and others eligible during the peak winter months.
I haven’t had any so far, so I won’t miss it. That said, I now fall into their target demographic, so I suppose I’ll get some reminders. My medical records are full of things I’ve declined. Another won’t make any difference.
Funny how we don’t hear so much about Covid these days. It’s almost as if it wasn’t as big a threat as the government and MSM made it out to be. I’m proud to say that I never had a single vaccine. After 25 years in the British army, I’m not prone to hysteria or panic. I had Covid toward the end of the “pandemic” and it really wasn’t that bad. I felt crap for a week, my sense of taste went a bit strange and my voice is, apparently, permanently husky now. At no point did I feel like I was in danger of becoming un-alive.
My symptoms were almost identical to flu, except that it took longer to get over the fatigue. That was getting on for a month.
We in the Drakon household all came down with COVID after Mrs Drakon caught it in hospital when she was in giving birth to latest mini-Drakon.
I’ve been exhausted ever since… and that was four months ago.
Dare I suggest your exhaustion is newborn-induced rather than Covid?
I’ve been having the regular flu jab for years now. It is a traditional vaccine that works by exposing your immune system to pathogens that you are likely to come into contact with. It has limitations due to the fact that flu bugs change all the time but I suspect that it is better than nothing. I get flu type bugs very rarely and when I do they are generally not severe.
I also got Covid toward the end of the panicdemic and it was also pretty mild. Couple of days in bed knocking paracetamol followed by a couple of days recovering.