When and whether to get a COVID booster should depend on your health status, risk tolerance, timing of last infection and other personal factors, experts say.
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.
"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.
my partner and i have gotten the vaccine and boosters as soon as they were available but the last time i had really bad heart palpitations for about a day and a half.
i didn't corelate that with the vaccine until my cousin went to the hospital for the same thing
Sorry that happened to you but I'm not sure what that has to do with my comment. We should study the negative side effects of vaccines and take them seriously but two anecdotes outside of a clinical trial is not much more meaningful than a single anecdote. If everybody is vaccinated, you'd expect a bunch of vaccinated people to die or get weird symptoms even if it's completely unrelated to the vaccine. We see patterns everywhere.
sure, I'm just saying I'm way more leery of it now since no one told me that could happen and i hadn't heard of others saying that outside of random people on Twitter
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.
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.
my partner and i have gotten the vaccine and boosters as soon as they were available but the last time i had really bad heart palpitations for about a day and a half. i didn't corelate that with the vaccine until my cousin went to the hospital for the same thing
Sorry that happened to you but I'm not sure what that has to do with my comment. We should study the negative side effects of vaccines and take them seriously but two anecdotes outside of a clinical trial is not much more meaningful than a single anecdote. If everybody is vaccinated, you'd expect a bunch of vaccinated people to die or get weird symptoms even if it's completely unrelated to the vaccine. We see patterns everywhere.
sure, I'm just saying I'm way more leery of it now since no one told me that could happen and i hadn't heard of others saying that outside of random people on Twitter