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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.
I don't even know how to get a booster. I don't know if they're generally available where I am. My compatriots appear to have completely forgotten that Covid is still here. I don't leave the house without my mask, still.
i went on walgreens website and clicked the covid link near the top then followed vax links. hopefully there is something similar available in your area
Same. The pharmacist actually asked me if I was tired of boosters yet. "No, I like being alive," I said. I hate SE USA.
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.
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
- 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.
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
