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I don't think the BAME communities are the only ones with reservations.
I've myself learned of a few who've had the vaccines and felt really awful for more than just days after it.

I think all should take this vaccine when it's offered.
However, it is everyone's own choice.

I'm taking my own Mum today for hers, she is very suspicious of it.
In fact I know had she been on her own, she would not be going to have it at this time.

I think a lot of people will feel the same.
Not just the BAME communities.
Also like my own Mum, I would think there's many who go to get it.
Really anxious and doing so reluctantly.

I get from my Mum for instance, 'well it changes little except maybe you don't get too Ill hopefully.
You can still with the vaccine get it, not know you have it and still pass it to others if you do have it'.

For me, the not getting too ill part is very important but also that it will hopefully ensure far less deaths to it too.

However, there's deep anxiety and even fear among people, the BAME communities and in others too.

There's a trust issue too, in are we told everything.

If this was the very start of the vaccinations, I may even myself share the fears my Mum has and the reluctance to have the vaccine.
After something like 11 million vaccinated I'd expect more confidence in the vaccine to be forthcoming.

The other issue that has clouded things and I'm not sure we have had the fullest reassurances to this.
The now up to 12 week gap when it was insisted it had to be only 3 in only January too.
It is only the 6th February now.

Plus I've come across worries now at the mention of a different covid vaccine from the first brand of it possibly for the second one.
These are things, people have to know have been properly trialled and tested.

So I understand the still anxieties and lack of trust in what we're told.
Leaving a reluctance to accept the vaccine.

Myself, I'd still urge everyone of any communities to get the vaccine however.