Why do so many people get vaccinated and why is it not a good idea for everyone to get vaccinated?

Many and reasonable are the questions of all of us, in the last few weeks, watching the Omicron mutation sweep everything in its path. The latter mutation affects both unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals.

Discussions are fatally driven to the level of "herd immunity", a definition we first saw around last year. The data we have from the Omicron mutation is encouraging in the sense that they do not lead people to hospitals and do not create shocks in the Health system so far.

Why do so many get vaccinated?

The fatigue and psychological pressure that the pandemic exerts on all of us and its limitations often bring conflicting questions to the fore.

For example, why I was vaccinated, while there is so much discussion about the vaccine, since I will be stuck again, many people wonder. The answer is simple, according to Luis Mansky, a virus researcher at the University of Minnesota. "People may mistakenly believe that vaccines are against it Covid-19 they completely block the infection, but the truth is that they are designed mainly for the prevention of serious diseases ".

This variant is more likely to infect people, even if it does not make them seriously ill, and its outbreak coincided with the holiday season in many parts of the world.

Speaking to SigmaLive about the issue, Dr. Petros Karagiannis said that many vaccinated people are infected due to the fact that the antibodies produced are not enough, especially if it has been a long time since someone completed the stage of the two doses of the vaccine. That is why we say, said Dr. Karagiannis, that the supportive doses must be made.

Asked to answer when one can feel "more shielded", even after the 3rd dose, he said that a period of 10 to 15 days should elapse at least from the day he took the 3rd dose.

"Vaccinations prevent serious hospitalization and intubation", said Dr. Karagiannis, adding that from the data of Omicron in Cyprus so far, we can say with confidence that it does not burden the Health system.

Because it's not such a good idea for us all to get stuck

An analysis by news247.gr says that it may not be such a good idea for us all to stick to Omicron and "finish". This feeling may overwhelm many especially during these Holidays that many have spent alone or in quarantine. Psychology is an important factor in the whole management of the condition called pandemic.

Asked about this issue, Dr. Karagiannis told SigmaLive that it might not be such a good idea since no one knows what the next day will be. That is, if new mutations of the virus will be created after that, maybe even more dangerous than the ones we know so far. "What some call herd immunity will not be maintained because antibodies will gradually fall again.", write down.

What news247.gr also points out is that in essence the whole planet feels more or less the same. exhaustion, a slight despair but also a certainty that we can not avoid infection. Hence we want to "surrender".

At first we were scared - we were terrified - then we felt sad and very anxious, we could not concentrate easily, we wished the vaccines came out, they came out, most did, but we did not get rid of the pandemic, there were difficulties in sleeping (the phenomenon) and the feeling that we are 'empty' and that everything is stagnant. Scientists called it lashing. For the story, the godfather was the sociologist Corey Keyes.

According to the New York Times, at the outbreak of the pandemic, the threat detection system in our brain (amygdala) worked overtime. When protection measures (eg mask use) began to emerge, we reduced the level of fear in the face of the threat by developing routines.

The months, however, passed and essentially nothing changed. And so we withered. We felt desperate, that there was no other energy left in us and unworthy. This was called lashing and was placed between good mental health and depression.

As she said exactly 1 year ago, Dr. Ilia Theotoka, clinical psychologist, psychotherapist at the Aeginite Hospital in Athens, the strengthening of human relationships, the ability to be able to speak and share our emotions, the effort to keep our own people close to us, plays a key role in alleviating , in the relief from unpleasant thoughts and anxieties and in the satisfaction we can get from life even in difficult situations. Why, we must not forget that life is worthwhile and worth claiming even in difficult times.

It is therefore necessary and imperative that we move on to the "next day", where optimism, self-belief and patience from our personal sources of supply are prerequisites ".

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