Will you be taking a booster?

Israel real life data on vaccines and boosters is what has spurred other countries to do exactly the same thing. It's still a Pfizer test lab.

My post is as is, pointing out that Israel's data has been important to the rest of the world but you are free to draw whatever conclusions you like from the post. It is neither illogical nor fake news to suggest that if they go down the route of multiple boosters that other countries will not follow.

Vaccines reduce transmission.

How are we still debating this!

But I mean there is peer reviewed evidence which proves transmission is reduced in vaccinated vs unvaccinated.

I think this point is not made clear enough by the scientific community and this has allowed a presumption that transmission is unaffected by the vaccine. Which is wrong.

Nobody's debating that, but they only reduce it, they don't eliminate it, being vaccinated is great but it doesn't mean you can't get it or spread it, it just means you're likely to recover quicker and be infectious for a slightly shorter time.

surely reducing transmission of a virus which can be deadly for some people is better than not reducing transmission of that virus?

Okay well on another thread a poster was saying they reduce transmission by 70% and then the other day on RTE.ie I saw a quote of the WHO saying they reduce transmission by 40%. (What's 30% among friends?)

Anecdotal evidence, within and outwith Ireland (e.g. Waterford), seems to show that some of the most vaccinated places have the highest transmission.

Without vaccines that give sterilising immunity, everyone will get covid.

They also potentially don't cover all strains.

Very underwhelming overall given the 'Vaccines Save' attitude taken by so many people earlier this year, including M Martin.

There has never been a silver bullet although some couldn't resist suggesting this was the case with vaccines. As a public health message it wasn't entirely dishonest as it encouraged people to get jabbed. What we will see next year and beyond are more tools, including anti-virals. As others have said COVID will still be around and we will catch it but if it's the equivalent of a bad flu' we can live with that.

The vaccines may be somewhat effective in reducing transmission BUT to a execute a public digital lockout system and run a campaign of official disapproval/scapegoating around people who won't take them is taking the piss big time.