Will you be taking a booster?

Pretty much by definition, the people who got vaccinated the first time around will be open to getting boosters - if they were anti-vax they wouldn't be vaccinated in the first place.

I don't get the comment about the "government moving the goalposts constantly". That suggests that the government originally promised that vaccination would provide lifetime or indefinite protection, but I don't recall the government - or, for that matter, anyone - ever saying that.

Covid-19 is a novel disease, and the treatments for it and vaccinations against it are necessarily also novel, which means information and understanding is still advancing, and will for some time to come. So of course advice about how to guard against it and how to treat it will evolve in response to accumulating experience and understanding. You'd have to be fairly thick not to grasp this, and it would be perverse to regard this as "the government constantly moving the goalposts".

This still isn't making a lot of sense. Vaccines against other Coronavirus diseases - e.g. the flu - do need to be regularly repeated; why assume a vaccine for Covid-19 would be any different? I don't think saying that vaccination is the way out of this ever implied that vaccination would be one-off and would never need to be repeated.

Hypothetically, we may yet develop a vaccine in which a single administration provides years or decades of protection and, if and when we do, great. In the meantime, "vaccination is the way out of this" doesn't mean that we shouldn't get boosters. On the contrary, it means that we should.

Reluctantly i'll probably have to when they decide to redefine the term 'fully vaccinated'.

I'd rather there was a conversation being had about bringing a vaccine on board that actually works though, these pfizer vaccines are a joke and anyone who thinks that they're effective looking at the winter we have ahead of us is delusional.

I mean if some are cool getting vaccinated twice a year for the rest of their lives, fine, but I'm not. If something isn't working, why would you do it.

A regular flu shot is every year. Other shots for other things might be every few years. Originally the vaccine for covid was to be two shots but that was for the original strain. Now it's 3 shots. I don't see the problem.

"Why would you do it?" I would do it to stay alive or stay out of hospital. I would do it, to be able to have a normal life.

I would but I’d like to see vaccines made available for vulnerable people in other countries first. But if offered it I will take it not least because illness and isolating is very disruptive.

No booster: Potential to die horribly from a preventable disease. Wander around asymptomatic for awhile, infecting people you think you might care about, though I question that line of thinking from someone that won't take the vaccine or the booster. Long-term Covid possibility with life limiting conditions.

Booster. Greatly reduced likelihood of dying horribly from preventable disease. Don't wander around asymptomatically infecting people you contact, including those you think you might care about. Greatly reduced likelihood of long Covid.

So, how is not taking the booster the 'sensible' choice?

Your assuming here that the only or primary benefit of taking the vaccine is keeping yourself out of hospital. But this is to miss the whole point about vaccination against infectious disease; it's primarily done not to keep you out of hospital or to confer any particular benefit on you, but to confer benefits on other people; to protect them from becoming infected by contact with you.

There is two ways of looking about the vaccine. I'm young & healthy so I'm alright Jack or I a concerned about the risk I bring to my family home. My mother, father etc. Plenty of otherwise healthy under 40s ended up in hospital & even ICU from covid. Some have dies too. Youngest I can remember was a 15 year old in the last few months. I'm not willing to be one that puts pressure on our health system. I don't want people with other ailments not to get the treatment they need just because I didn't want a jab.

Here's the thing, if you took two doses of the vaccine, what is the issue taking a 3rd or 4th. Now all of a sudden to be afraid of a vaccine you took twice? Vaccine passports are being updated. Last dose will have to be within the last 6 months to have a valid passport that will scan. If you don't get 3rd shot by March or so then you will not have a valid passport for eating, drinking indoors or possibly flying out of the country.

I went to Egypt for holiday a few years ago. We got every vaccine recommended by the doctor. We were to go to Peru last year & again had all the recommended shots. Unfortunately the trip has been cancelled till the madness ends

I'll take it when I'm offered although I think I'd prefer another dose of Astra rather than a different one, but that's not going to happen.

I was recently reading and article that says the astra zeneca vaccine is only effective for 96 days. Not great.

I mean it probably has some effect on transmission but it looks like it's pretty negible tbh so that protecting others doesn't really apply. It's doing a good job of protecting hospitalisations, for a while anyway, so at that point it really should be opt in so that the vulnerable can take it and anyone else who wants it.

Having Covid doesn't mean you won't get it again.