The headline is very positive but there is some really worrying data in there.
“The report shows 67 per cent of Irish adults are open to taking mRNA jabs, higher than the global and European averages which were both at 60 per cent.
For the more traditional vaccines 73 per cent of people in Ireland said they were willing to get it, up from the 68 per cent recorded globally.
…
Parents of dependent children and those in lower social grades are among the least accepting of both traditional and mRNA vaccines, which the researchers said suggests a need to raise awareness and tackle roots of distrust.
People aged 35 to 54 were the age cohort most likely to reject a vaccine, the survey found”
Above average education with above average trust in authority will do that
Dying of TB, measles, rubella, polio and other diseases is still within living memory and accepted as part of life. Deaths from such diseases touched every family—including my own.
When vaccines arrived, they were a literal life saver. People wholeheartedly supported them and this support has continued through the generations.
A vaccine could have saved my grandfather’s twin who died of TB. He was a life-long proponent of vaccines and advances in medical science.
Is it any surprise when we have one of the most highly educated populations in the world
Great news.
Andrew Wakefield started this shit, and I wonder how many people have died since he, despicable creature, deliberately falsified a study. And it was all to make money from other vaccines. And some ex porn star with no qualifications jumped on the bandwagon. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3136032/ An utterly disgusting creature, devoid of any shred of ethics or morals.
Well you see I don’t want to die an easiably preventable death.
Good for the Irish not to fall for the Grift epidemic.
I got the Flu and Covid vaccine before Christmas there best idea ever really. So many people close to me got flu this year..
I’m going to get it every year now.
More likely to get them so they can go to the pub. Not for any health reasons.
I’m all for vaccines but this blind acceptance of a population health initiative by Ireland without having a vaccine redress scheme for the 0.001% unfortunate people who develope an injury from a vaccine really irritates me. The evidence of vaccine injury occurrence is as solid as the evidence for the vaccine, and yet Ireland inc do nothing to help those effected.
To even mention this failing by international standards can lead to being labeled anti vax when a very small number of people are actually really damaged …for life.
We’re an educated country.
I feel like if this survey had been done in 2018/2019 there might have been slightly different results. This is obviously purely based on personal experiences and not that I think it’s true across the board, but still. My grandmother had a few siblings die of TB and she got it herself when she was 13 but she (in her words) ‘was miraculously saved by god because her father prayed to him everyday to cure her and promised to stop drinking’. The woman was a religious nut job after that but she drove home the importance of vaccinations to her kids and grandkids, and it was similar situations for most of my parents friends and families.
The conspiracy theories I had to listen to about the Covid vaccine was mind numbing, how it couldn’t be safe because it was created so ‘quickly’ etc. People who had decried Andrew Wakefield as a dangerous idiot for my whole life suddenly didn’t trust these vaccines because of what could happen in the future, what diseases this might cause, how it could ‘harm the children in the future’, cause infertility etc.
One of my cousins has an autoimmune disease and her doctors said she couldn’t get vaccinated at the time because they were worried how her system would cope with it as she was in and out of hospital constantly and her body basically shut down with any small change to it. She begged everyone to get vaccinated to try protect her, ya know, what with herd immunity being the best way to protect people who can’t get vaccinated themselves. Her sister is a nurse who fully supported what she was asking and telling everyone as well to get vaccinated. Their parents finally did it in order to be able to see their grandkids but guilted her constantly that they were ‘forced’ to do so. My parents finally got it in the end because they wanted to be able to go on holidays and it made traveling easier, and I told them they wouldn’t be welcome coming to visit me unvaccinated as I was working with kids at the time and the rules were really strict about being a contact person (and I wanted them to take it for their own safety, they’re no spring chickens or health nuts and I’d prefer not to have them die over something preventable). I’m glad they finally got it, but disappointed in the reaction.
Whenever I brought up TB and the shit around the MMR i was always told that’s different/not the same/it’s my choice and I shouldn’t be forced to get vaccinated just for others. As a child my sister couldn’t get the MMR vaccine for a few years because she was allergic to eggs and that was a binding agent in the vaccine, when I pointed that out and how angry/upset they’d be whenever they found out someone was choosing not to vaccinate their child at the time and call them irresponsible parents, i was told again oh that’s different it’s not the same etc.
I know the lockdowns sucked for some people, but the change and sudden mistrust in vaccines is mind boggling. Peoples memories are short and there’s very few people still alive who suffered with the likes of TB to act as a ‘cautionary tale’ for people. The most frustrating thing for me is that most of the people who choose not to vaccinate their kids are depriving them of the same protections their parents ensured they got as children.
So many people take good health for granted, not realising the role that vaccines and hygiene play in this. I’m glad we’re relatively copped on in Ireland.
It’s a social consciousness thing. We are great at turning a blind eye …
Irish are docile. Unless it comes to water charges.
No thanks. I don’t want the 5g albino Georgians taking over.
Why do people trust Irish docs? Talk to your local health food shops or the oldest people in your community they are the qualified people
Ireland needs a vaccine redress board like they have in Germany, France, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, the United Kingdom.
It was supposed to happen in 2022 but has been shelved like so many other things.
I tend to just go with what my GP thinks because health information on the internet often tends to be a bit hysterical.
Good. Nice to see a bit of common sense prevailing tbh.
During the twentieth century many other countries had governments that had alternative agendas etc. which made people distrusting of authority in general. Our major authority was the church which you can see people moving away from, whereas government has largely been moving forward in a less authoritarian way. (I’m not praising the government)
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The headline is very positive but there is some really worrying data in there.
“The report shows 67 per cent of Irish adults are open to taking mRNA jabs, higher than the global and European averages which were both at 60 per cent.
For the more traditional vaccines 73 per cent of people in Ireland said they were willing to get it, up from the 68 per cent recorded globally.
…
Parents of dependent children and those in lower social grades are among the least accepting of both traditional and mRNA vaccines, which the researchers said suggests a need to raise awareness and tackle roots of distrust.
People aged 35 to 54 were the age cohort most likely to reject a vaccine, the survey found”
Above average education with above average trust in authority will do that
Dying of TB, measles, rubella, polio and other diseases is still within living memory and accepted as part of life. Deaths from such diseases touched every family—including my own.
When vaccines arrived, they were a literal life saver. People wholeheartedly supported them and this support has continued through the generations.
A vaccine could have saved my grandfather’s twin who died of TB. He was a life-long proponent of vaccines and advances in medical science.
Is it any surprise when we have one of the most highly educated populations in the world
Great news.
Andrew Wakefield started this shit, and I wonder how many people have died since he, despicable creature, deliberately falsified a study. And it was all to make money from other vaccines. And some ex porn star with no qualifications jumped on the bandwagon. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3136032/ An utterly disgusting creature, devoid of any shred of ethics or morals.
Well you see I don’t want to die an easiably preventable death.
Good for the Irish not to fall for the Grift epidemic.
I got the Flu and Covid vaccine before Christmas there best idea ever really. So many people close to me got flu this year..
I’m going to get it every year now.
More likely to get them so they can go to the pub. Not for any health reasons.
I’m all for vaccines but this blind acceptance of a population health initiative by Ireland without having a vaccine redress scheme for the 0.001% unfortunate people who develope an injury from a vaccine really irritates me. The evidence of vaccine injury occurrence is as solid as the evidence for the vaccine, and yet Ireland inc do nothing to help those effected.
To even mention this failing by international standards can lead to being labeled anti vax when a very small number of people are actually really damaged …for life.
We’re an educated country.
I feel like if this survey had been done in 2018/2019 there might have been slightly different results. This is obviously purely based on personal experiences and not that I think it’s true across the board, but still. My grandmother had a few siblings die of TB and she got it herself when she was 13 but she (in her words) ‘was miraculously saved by god because her father prayed to him everyday to cure her and promised to stop drinking’. The woman was a religious nut job after that but she drove home the importance of vaccinations to her kids and grandkids, and it was similar situations for most of my parents friends and families.
The conspiracy theories I had to listen to about the Covid vaccine was mind numbing, how it couldn’t be safe because it was created so ‘quickly’ etc. People who had decried Andrew Wakefield as a dangerous idiot for my whole life suddenly didn’t trust these vaccines because of what could happen in the future, what diseases this might cause, how it could ‘harm the children in the future’, cause infertility etc.
One of my cousins has an autoimmune disease and her doctors said she couldn’t get vaccinated at the time because they were worried how her system would cope with it as she was in and out of hospital constantly and her body basically shut down with any small change to it. She begged everyone to get vaccinated to try protect her, ya know, what with herd immunity being the best way to protect people who can’t get vaccinated themselves. Her sister is a nurse who fully supported what she was asking and telling everyone as well to get vaccinated. Their parents finally did it in order to be able to see their grandkids but guilted her constantly that they were ‘forced’ to do so. My parents finally got it in the end because they wanted to be able to go on holidays and it made traveling easier, and I told them they wouldn’t be welcome coming to visit me unvaccinated as I was working with kids at the time and the rules were really strict about being a contact person (and I wanted them to take it for their own safety, they’re no spring chickens or health nuts and I’d prefer not to have them die over something preventable). I’m glad they finally got it, but disappointed in the reaction.
Whenever I brought up TB and the shit around the MMR i was always told that’s different/not the same/it’s my choice and I shouldn’t be forced to get vaccinated just for others. As a child my sister couldn’t get the MMR vaccine for a few years because she was allergic to eggs and that was a binding agent in the vaccine, when I pointed that out and how angry/upset they’d be whenever they found out someone was choosing not to vaccinate their child at the time and call them irresponsible parents, i was told again oh that’s different it’s not the same etc.
I know the lockdowns sucked for some people, but the change and sudden mistrust in vaccines is mind boggling. Peoples memories are short and there’s very few people still alive who suffered with the likes of TB to act as a ‘cautionary tale’ for people. The most frustrating thing for me is that most of the people who choose not to vaccinate their kids are depriving them of the same protections their parents ensured they got as children.
So many people take good health for granted, not realising the role that vaccines and hygiene play in this. I’m glad we’re relatively copped on in Ireland.
It’s a social consciousness thing. We are great at turning a blind eye …
Irish are docile. Unless it comes to water charges.
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No thanks. I don’t want the 5g albino Georgians taking over.
Why do people trust Irish docs? Talk to your local health food shops or the oldest people in your community they are the qualified people
Ireland needs a vaccine redress board like they have in Germany, France, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, the United Kingdom.
It was supposed to happen in 2022 but has been shelved like so many other things.
I tend to just go with what my GP thinks because health information on the internet often tends to be a bit hysterical.
Good. Nice to see a bit of common sense prevailing tbh.
During the twentieth century many other countries had governments that had alternative agendas etc. which made people distrusting of authority in general. Our major authority was the church which you can see people moving away from, whereas government has largely been moving forward in a less authoritarian way. (I’m not praising the government)
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