Will you be taking a booster?

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.

But just because your vaccinated doesnt mean you wont bring the virus home!

Less likely but that percentage difference in spreading the virus if vaxed or not vaxed seems to be lessening all the time so the idea that you arent spreading it by being vaccinated is... well... The viral load for unvaxxed and vaxxed is the same at its peak only unvaxxed spend a slightly longer time at their peak

Our health service has been under pressure for decades,

So what have we done since 2017, or actually since early 2020 in our hospitals?

Ive no issue with vaccinations, will probably get the booster but my head is screaming at me, whats the point? Im still going to spread this disease by living normally and im not going to get sick from this, ive had it.

If anything a booster is wasted on me, still going to spread it, not going to get sick or need hospital so again, whats the point?

Having said that i probably will get it because we seem to be happy to welcome apartheid rather than question why and ask the hard questions of those who have spent billions of euros of our money for decades but still run a third world country health service whilst earning mouth wateringly huge salaries of their own!

"decent health service!!! nah just stick that jab in your arm there now if you want to have a cup of coffee and shut up!"

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

But I got the two jabs and happily did so.

Yet now, not getting boosters every 6 months will be considered selfish. Wow.

The statistics don't back up the need for double jabbed people under 45 to be worried. I'm sorry that's just the data.

Of course, you could be very unlucky as with so many things in life.

Booked in for next week for mine. So yep, seems to be showing promise

Why do you think they are not effective? What numbers are you looking at to decide that and what numbers would you need to see to decide they are effective?