Will you be taking a booster?

Got you, be cautious of vaccines because no one knows the long term effects

I fall into the 40-49 category.

I got a text from gp asking to register for booster next week so I took appointment. Bit surprised to get offered one so quickly.

I got first two jabs in NI but managed to get them registered down here.

Getting a booster next week. Would recommend you all do the same.

Yep, so why the rush? Not for the first time, you get the sense that we are either not getting all the facts and/or that the authorities are just guessing.

Antivax CT spreader?

Both pfizer and moderna people and ceo tripping over themselves talking about need of a new vaccine for omicron because current one may not be that good... It is not me who is saying transmission reduction is not what it used to be. Also need for a booster and booster number 2 is dead giveaway that this is the case.

Once again. You are talking about preventing transmission. Not me.

And caution might advise not stampeding people into vaccine programmes. Let the public be fully informed and be able to make a rational decision as to what's in their own and societies best interests.

The first vaccine programme was sold largely on the basis that you might still catch Covid but that the worst effects would be mitigated. That was either correct and all well and good or it was a lie or partial truth. If it was correct, the healthy population at large have little to fear.

Yeah, you're an anti-vax CT spreader. Advocating for ivermectin in other threads is just one example. The newest successful variants are more contagious. And, yeah, additional doses of vaccines reduce the chance you contract the disease, and spread it to others.

Do try to keep up.

Why not just go to a walk in clinic?

I did this evening. Took an hour in total.

Very efficient.

Absolutely not. Whatever the morbidity associated with getting the vaccine, the morbidity associated with contracting Covid is unquestionably far, far greater. Contracting Covid is, by orders of magnitude, the most dangerous way to acquire immunity, and the danger is both for you and for your family and social contacts.

People who express concerns about the safety of vaccines and at the same time advocate allowing Covid to spread as a mechanism for building up immunity are — and I'm putting this as politely as I can — complete fücking idiots. They should only be trusted with plastic cutlery and shouldn't be let out of the house alone.

Anyone seriously considering not getting their booster needs their head examined. This is to protect both yourself and the people around you, it’s not the extra sauce on your sandwich, it’s essential.

We are living through a public health emergency with a new variant and there are people on here considering not taking the booster. madness.

I was unwell for 2 months after my second, with neurological symptoms, no explanation and no prognosis for what might happen after the booster. Is that informed consent?

i just got an appointment by text, I won’t be going.

Yes and did it yesterday

TBH because of radical statement like this I am would think twice when getting close to anyone who is vaccinated. Unvaccinated or unboosted at least don't believe they are immortal heroes and can save the word. They are more likely to reduce number of social contacts and by not being able to booze in a pub also posses less risk of not spreading covid.

What is so radical about me stating that I won't get close to someone . Far less radical than recommendation to examine your head. Obviously everyone has their own reasons to vaccinate or not. I am just saying if I see someone is posting 10 images from different pubs on instagram, I won't meet them, vaccinated or not. I don't really see how their vaccination status is 'savaing the world' and why their head needs less examination than someone who is not vaccinated and going for a hikes with 2-3 people for all week. Just an example.