Absolutely! My arm is out and ready, jab me up.
I am ready to hug my family members without fear of passing on a virus that could kill them. I’m ready to walk about the shops and take public transport without fear of inadvertently passing on a virus that could kill someone, destroying not only their lives but the lives of their families. I am ready to put my trust into the hundreds and thousands of medical professionals, scientists and others who have dedicated the last 10 months of their lives fighting against this pandemic to find a vaccine, and with the right financing to have shown how phenomenal the human response can be. And I am ready to play my part in easing the burden on the NHS, so that NHS staff can see some light at the end of what must have been one of the most traumatic years of their lives, and so that those who need medical care - not just in relation to Covid - can get it when they need it.
I can’t control what I might pass on to people, but the vaccine will help this.
There’s nothing the government could inject me with that could give them more than what they already get through my phone, my medical and tax records, CCTV, and on and on.
I am ready, jab me up.
This whole pandemic is really scary enough without people making it worse.
I know that some may be worried and not necessarily anti vaxxers, or ardent consipracy theorists who are just a bit fearful due to a number of reasons. I understand that it's okay to be worried in general.But you get those people...the ones who just want to strike fear into the heart of everything. I told my colleague my mother got her jab. Now, knowing how worried I've been about her health in general, this person had no awareness to actually just know when to stop and began a rant about how vaccines need to be researched for years and how nobody knows the side effects are yet, until maybe a year later when suddenly people start getting ill and dropping dead, etc etc. and then winked at me and said: "God willing".
Seriously.