My main motivation to get vaccinated is to travel overseas to see family. If that can’t happen, and it certainly looks like it will be a long time and well into 2022 before I can go visit, then I am in no rush to get any vaccination at all.
I’m a healthy 60 year old, and I have a 1b access because I am a volunteer firefighter. I had already decided not to use that access and just wait my tun (age based) because I thought that other people needed the shot more than I did.
Now I am feeling quite a bit of vaccine hesitancy. Not because I am worried about blood clots, but more because we don’t really know what other side effects are out there given the short timeframe and relatively small cohorts in the original clinical trials. My attitude would be different if COVID were rampant here, but it just is not. And if I can’t leave the country to see my boy, then I don’t really see much point rushing in just now to get vaccinated. I do feel a bit “sacrificial lamb” about this decision that it’s ok for 50+ to get AZ on the basis of our higher risks of COVID complications than inyounger age groups. However, as things currently stand, living in ACT, taking personal responsibility for social distancing and hand hygiene, with my health status, and unable to travel overseas, my personal risk of getting COVID is miniscule and likely lower than the risk of the blood clots. Plus I know I am a lot fitter and healthier than many of my age cohort (thank you CrossFit!), so I don’t see how my benefit from the vaccine (with know risks emerging) is enough to outweigh my risks of COVID (pretty well non-existent - and if no COVID, then certainly no COVID disease/complications).
Before all this, I was keen. Now not so much. Think I will now be a late adopter.