If limited takeup slows the lifting of restrictions, I have a right to an opinion on the subject.
Given the takeup so far, and looking at the results of this poll, and based on conversations I have had with people, I do not think takeup will be limited.
But I agree with you that there is a risk that if takeup was limited, it could slow the lifting of restrictions; that alone is probably my biggest motivator for getting vaccinated and encouraging others to do so.
I think that the biggest danger to vaccine takeup is poor Government messaging and an obsession with continuing restrictions for longer than necessary but that's arguably a whole new topic.
I'm healthy as well, but I can assure you that COVID is significantly worse than flu in some cases...
There are key differences and there is a lot of misunderstanding among many people about these differences.
Coronaviruses are easier to gain good immunity to, than influenza, which mutates much faster and has multiple strains (there is only one strain of Sars-CoV-2); this explains why people who are infected with coronaviruses in adulthood are so much more likely to have mild symptoms (if any) compared to influenza infections.
This also explains why the Sars-CoV-2 vaccines are so much more efficacious than influenza vaccines.
How successfully a person can fend off influenza depends on how the relevant strain encountered compares with the strain first encountered during childhood.
For younger people, influenza is far more likely to be dangerous than Sars-CoV-2. I strongly suspect the only reason the reverse is true for older people is purely down to pre-existing immunity. Indeed it was pre-existing immunity that meant it was almost exclusively younger people who were affected by the 2009 pandemic.
A lot of comparisons between the two viruses that people make in terms of severity of infection are fundamentally flawed; as a population we are immunologically naive to Sars-CoV-2 whereas in contrast we have very good population immunity against influenza. This doesn't make for a fair or valid comparison between the actual viruses.
In my opinion, all this makes the case for vaccination against Sars-CoV-2 very strong indeed.
I can understand why someone may not want to bother with an influenza vaccine; they are not very effective and are not very long lasting and may offer relatively little protection against substantially different strains than what the latest vaccine is optimised for. But no such drawbacks exist with the Sars-CoV-2 vaccine.
Even if someone feels there is very little benefit to them in terms of the immunity they would gain (which I'd disagree with but...), there are clear advantages in terms of greatly reducing the likelihood of having to quarantine. Also for as long as some people are unable to be vaccinated, the more people who are able to be vaccinated do receive it, the greater the protection for unvaccinated people as the more immunity we have in the population, the less it will spread.