Will you be taking a booster?

There you go so : https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1327, the chances of someone in their 20s actually requiring medical care are about 1 in 30 going to 1 in 100 for hospital care, that's not bad compared to the stated side effect rates as per the HSE's own publication (at least the papers I received when getting mine).

Anyhow, I'm not arguing with you about Covid, just stating that convincing people to take a booster within a year of the vaccine for an illness they have already had and gotten over is a hard sell.

Actually, yes, you stated : "So, no risk then?"

As I've already said, there's always a risk, it's your own choice and you have to consider your own concerns when making that decision, not some scientific study someone on boards googled.

I've got the first two, but I think I'm now done.

I never saw myself in any real danger from covid myself. I took the vaccine to do my bit for those few who arent at minuscule risk and to help us to get out of this hellish circle. On both counts the vaccines didnt deliver it seems.

A third one to make it alright? And after that a fourth one? All the way tied to a partake-in-life-permission (or not)?

Maybe it is safe to have twenty or a hundred. Who knows. I dont think anyone wants to actually harm us and I'm obviously not 'anti-vax'.

But I dont think I want to partake in this try and error approach and I certainly dont want to support the political games around it anymore.

This isn't a final decision. There are always other considerations like family pressure or something, but on the whole I'm pretty p***** off about it now.

I believe we may be seeing the genesis of the 'vaccinated antivaxer' insult train in this thread.

Should get fun over the next few months. Leos changing of the wording to 3 dose vaccine rather than booster may indicate how the term "fully vaccinated" is going to change pretty soon.

Will some of us end up getting thrown back outside with the rest of the unclean. I don't think we will have to wait too long to find out.

boosta == game changea

I'm in favour of choice and personal responsibility, I don't believe a word out of any of them tbh, they fronted so much misinformation on their own end when the vaccines were first mooted, the problem is responsibility and no vaccine is a silver bullet, dictating to certain people (including myself) is a huge mistake and leads to backlash and non-co-operation.

Give me it asap...

The Tanaiste can say whatever he likes.

We are past the point of diminishing returns with this approach to the unvaccinated since more legal disadvantages and demonisation will just convince them they're up against a hostile system which can't be trusted.

The persuasion campaign should have been much smoother if population-wide 'up-take' was the actual goal.

The more antivaxxers, the fewer antivaxxers. Problem solved, eventually.

Hardly. These vaccines are not the gift of life itself. Huge numbers of people are at no risk.

My colleague told me the other day her daughter said she hopes to get covid so she'll get time off work.

There seems to be no pattern to who gets the side effects. Me: sore arm, nothing else; Mme Storkeuse: felt very ill for a day; 17 year old daughter: felt very ill for a day; 17 year old niece: felt very ill for a day; 15 year old daughter: slightly sore arm, nothing else; 87 year old mother; slightly sore arm, nothing else (she also had the flu jab on the same day).

I will keep repeating it because it's true.

You can praise Pfizer for bestowing the gift of life on you but someday you will die. We all will.

Have had the booster - plus the usual flu jab - with no problems so far. According to the venerable Luke O'Neill, I should now be OK for another 11 months or so, in which case I presume it will all combine into another yearly top up, or similar. Intend to keep wearing a mask and avoiding crowds and just wish more people would see the sense in what the medics are trying to do. The hospitals are now filling up with the mostly unvaccinated which is dreadful for all concerned, but infuriating for those unfortunate patients who are waiting for urgent operations and procedures. Rant over.

I will not be getting any boosters, the virus mutates far too often for any booster to be of any worth. Or we'll need to open brand new vaccination centres and give back the facilities that are currently take over for a booster every three or so months. I wouldn't want to live like that.