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My mum, 64, is sole carer for my Dad. She is terrified of the vaccine knocking her out for a day as she thinks she needs to be 100% to make sure my Dad eats, or she can help him if he has a fall. We've told her she is not solely responsible, we'd work something out if she does need to take a few days, but this is her anxiety. She is even more terrified of catching Covid, for the same reasons but the potential impact being greater, so she is sitting by the phone waiting for her call and checking the NI webiste every day. She has been offered slots, but the other side of the country. If she could drive herself, she would be there in a heartbeat. But my Dad just cannot drive that far due to his condition.
She is not calling up trying to queue jump and she is not bitter about others getting theirs before her.
If you are offered a vaccine and you are going/can take it, then take it. We do not have (or we should not think we have) the luxury of being able to pick and chose when it happens (barring exepction circumstances, of course. A job interview is not this). This must be a hard enough task for those trying to organise without having to move people around. If you're not going to take it, that's another discussion, but don't waste their time when they could be pulling more people in who desperately want it.
This might sound overly harsh and it is not intended as a sole attack, but my piss is boiled more generally. For example, the NI booking site, for my Mum's age group, she is not actually eligible. But if she selects that she is a carer (which she is), then all of a sudden she can book. There are no checks for this, so everyone else in her age group has suddenly become a carer, is more tech savvy than her and has booked up all the slots.