I'm not 50 and I'm not clinically vulnerable so nobody is offering me annual vaccinations. When I pass 50, though, if COVID is still endemic, I will be delighted to have an annual booster.
Right. OK. So let me expand my logic and my reasoning for the way I think and why I hold the views that I hold.
I orginally had the AZ as my first and second vaccines.
Then (If I remember correctly, I too am on the wrong side of 50), I had the AZ as a booster, with the second booster being Pfizer.
What annoyed me when booking my second booster, is that they wouldn't give me the choice of having AZ as the second booster.
Yes, there were studies done and papers published which found that mixing the vaccines was more effective.
But some people, maybe many people, like to manage their risks. I would rather had something less effective than worry about a larger footprint of vaccine risk, having to take on the risk of two different vaccines rather than one.
Of course, many people would say that I'm wrong, but I'm deprived of the right to have 2 boosters that are the same, so that my risk is only the AZ vaccine.
If I had known, what I know now,
probably, I would not have taken any vaccinations. But I do admit, when I did have Covid, yeah I would have been shitting a brick without being vaccinated, because I did wonder whether I would wake up when I went to sleep - with the vaccine!
Just remember that some "anti-vaxx" people aren't "anti-vaxx", just because they made the personal decision not to take the vaccination.
They weighed up the risks, they made a choice.
The main reason why I regretted taking the vaccine, isn't down to whether I think any one vaccine is safe or not, it's just I'm not going to take it for the rest of my life. And if I'm not going to take it for the rest of my life, then I would have been better off just not taking any in the first place, IMHO.
If you want to take vaccinations for the rest of your life, you'll hear no critique from me. If I was to venture down that path, I'd insist the vaccines are all from one company, so I know who to blame if it all goes wrong.
I'm kicking myself that I allowed the NHS to mix in a Pfizer vaccine.