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Yes
What if I’m young and healthy? Do I really need another booster?
The short answer is: probably not, as long as you don’t mind being sick for a week or two.
Never mind permanent neurological effects like long COVID, and increasing your risk of stroke or heart attack, even in young and healthy people (my 31-year-old, healthy boss had a stroke the first time they got COVID before getting vaccinated, no prior history of strokes), and depleting your immune system so that getting sick with anything in the next 2 years is more severe.
Many people get an annual flu shot, not to avoid death but because they don’t want to miss work or life or be miserable for a few weeks. The same is true for COVID-19.
COVID is just like the flu, bro. Trust me, bro
They’re just publishing advice that’s the exact opposite of public health science. Apathy and zero guidance is already making it so that very few people are getting the boosters but they feel the need to actively make things worse.
Yes
Getting my shot and a flu vaccine next week.
I took my booster shot in less than a month ago.
Same. The pharmacist actually asked me if I was tired of boosters yet. “No, I like being alive,” I said. I hate SE USA.
You’re in the South? Ugh.
Yes, I live in hell. Ask me anything.
No, how it goes is:
I’m Pluto.
AMA.
Dammit, only I get the questions!
Same. Right before starting a new job, I was willing to pay out of pocket. But because I had no health insurance, I guess the gov must have covered it cause I wasn’t charged.
That’s good.
It should be treated as an annual shot now. We just got ours last week together with the flu vaccine. 5th covid shot in total. Arms were sore and had a slight fever for a day, then I was all good. Didn’t even need to take a tylenol for the fever.
COVID vax immunity only lasts 6 months at best AND unlike the flu has high year-round transmission. We should be getting poked a lot.
Yes, you should.
yes
- Yes
- Go do it
- Right now
- That wasn’t a request
- See point 1
- Covid is way worse than anything the vaccine can do to you
- You afraid of a lil poke or what, baby?
The fact that vaccines help prevent the spread of disease is offhandedly mentioned at the very end. This is so wild. Isn’t herd immunity a concept most people understand? That vaccines aren’t just about you personally?
I’m not high-risk at all and I got my latest booster a few weeks back - upon learning this very shocking fact my GP asked me why in a pretty judgmental way. Same deal when I had to jump through hoops to get my previous booster even though the official government policy in my country was that anyone could get it. Different pharmacies had different interpretations of this very clear policy though and nobody agreed.
I don’t live in constant fear of what COVID will do to me personally, but the vibe I get from practicing health workers I interact with is that I’m weird for caring about getting vaccinated and it’s getting to me. Like, am I wrong? I don’t think I am.
Isn’t herd immunity a concept most people understand?
Unfortunately, that term has been redefined in the public mind as “everyone gets sick and dies”
“I will get the plague to not get the plague” “We will all get sick to protect us from getting sick” Absolute brainworm takes. Getting covid does not protect people from getting covid!
Nah people in the US are just selfish as fuck. Sadly it’s the culture. Go somewhere like Japan where the culture is in favor of society instead of the individual and you’ll find nearly everyone vaccinated.
I live in France.
Looks like 81% of the US population got at least 1 dose, and 17% got an updated (bivalent) booster dose.
81% of the French population got at least 1 dose, and 56% got a booster.
Wack. But I was talking about the attitude of the doctors and pharmacists I’ve met.
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