Re: Astra zeneca and EU ??
Originally Posted by
PooBear
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It's all a question of balance OGF.
I have survived ten heart attacks and my subsequent general health dictates that if I caught Covid 19 I would die - period.
Now 40 cases of clotting out of 17million vaccinations, mostly of the elderly, seems good odds to me. If I do get a clot and die, then so be it.
Blimey PooBear!....
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Respect Mate....
Although I love meeting people and socialising, I am somewhat of a loner, and apart from regular early morning runs (before anyone is awake) and frequent visits to the wild places (moors & Mountains) I hardly ever go out, especially since lockdown, which in my case has been since last March. I also live out in the sticks where the incidence of covid has been almost nil. So, like the 64 million souls who have not caught covid yet, I consider my odds of catching the virus exceedingly low.
Add to that, if I do catch covid, I consider my chances of survival to be very good. There have been many surprises since the start of the covid pandemic, and one of them is the amount of people who considered covid as being a death sentence and were surprised to have recovered without the need for hospital intervention, in fact some cases reported it as not being as bad as a bad cold. Obviously, you only hear about the poor unfortunate ones who did not survive or ended up with long covid. For those people, and their family members I feel very sad and my heart goes out to them, and I understand the reasons why it has been reported thus, better to be safe than sorry, and to make people realise how serious the situation is and we all must play our part and observe the restrictions placed on us.
I've spent a lifetime taking risks, far too many to post in this reply, and I must admit, there have been times when I have been stupid and reckless, but lucky....So risking catching covid and experiencing the results by not taking a vaccine is just another risk at the bottom of a very large and ever growing list of risks....Good luck PooBear, and stay safe.....