Industry figures are leading the way in getting vaccinated against COVID-19, many of them announcing the occasion of double vax via social media. AdNews asked them about their motivation and experiences.
Laura Nice, Managing Director – OMD Sydney:
As a Brit living in Australia, I have always been able to justify living on the other side of the world by telling friends and family (and myself) that I’m only 24 hours from home.
Well, COVID has well and truly changed that. It’s been over two years since I’ve seen my family, I missed the birth of my nephew Sid and had to rely on Zoom to be there for a friend who received her second cancer diagnosis.
Getting the vaccine was a no brainer for me, in fact I was hunting out weblinks for early access so I could register before they were even allocated. Whilst the freedom to travel is important to me and my family, it’s also the everyday concern that we could get COVID. Many of my friends in the UK have had COVID and it hasn’t been pretty. Thankfully they’re all fine now but they had a tough time, and they were young and fit.
Being fully vaccinated gives me hope. The hope that one day soon we can all be together again – in Sydney, in another state and finally, back home in the UK.
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