Getting the covid 19 vaccine

[thainick1969]

i live in pattaya and i am disabled and cant walk to much and just wondered who i will have to contact or if possible if someone medical could come to my house to give me covid vaccine ide prefer astrazeneca or pfizer vaccine

 

thanks

[jacko45k]

I know someone in a similar situation and we talked of this recently.... 

He didn't think he had options beyond making his way to say the BHP when they open up for another round of vaccinations. Although his sentiment was, not expecting to travel or go to places, he didn't see any need for the jab.... despite my telling him, well I am here with you now, and do get out. 

[Gaccha]

Sir, you sound very immobile and that also suggests only limited contact with other persons. If you have minimal disease vectors (the ways the disease can reach you) then the probabilities are in your favour. 

 

I want to set out reality. 

 

The virus will, in around 6 more months, become endemic. This is a good thing. This means the people in your area will have either been vaccinated or infected and are now virtually bulletproof. The virus will infect everyone every 2 or 3 years and this will bump up and prep their immune systems so they remain strong against it. The virus like previous COVID outbreaks will be experienced as a common cold. This is called herd immunity.

 

When you are surrounded by a protected herd, you are protected. If you are not vaccinated, you are a "freeloader", strictly speaking. But you have clear reasons to not get vaccinated so there is no ethical dilemma here. 

 

The virus, even the most scary variants, will inevitably become harmless. The scenario of a continuous escalation of more and more dangerous variants cannot happen; to believe that this will happen is to misunderstand the immune system.

 

The immune system has multiple layers. The simplest layer is the foot soldier peasants, the antibodies which are struggling with the current variants. But as backup you have your armoured elephant reserves: the T-cells. They *cannot* be defeated by variants once they've experienced the basic version of the virus in the last 10 years (possibly 15 years). Getting vaccinated simply means teaching your elephants how best to charge the enemy. 

 

The delta variant is a problem because it infects around 5 people from 1 infected person. This implies a need for 80% herd immunity via vaccinations/ infections.   

 

So there will probably be a quiet outbreak in 20 years time, which we'll not notice because it'll be among children who were born since and they won't be harmed by infection. I suppose it might be a short page 15 news article. 

 

If you can get vaccinated, then don't be picky, even one jab of Sinovac is very likely to prevent serious illness or death.