Will you be taking a booster?

Multipass · 20-12-2021 08:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118351633#Comment_118351633

You can self report on VAERS. I did, and a week later was contacted by an Irish doctor to get further details and finalise the report.

Scuid Mhór · 20-12-2021 08:57PM

Got my booster a few hours ago, so far no side effects to speak of.

tomgrange1978 · 20-12-2021 09:01PM

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/09/13/scientific-evidence-doesnt-back-booster-covid-shots-researchers-warn---even-for-the-delta-variant/?sh=b5effbc7ff6a

scary stuff

odyssey06 · 20-12-2021 09:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118353500#Comment_118353500

Scary you are reposting something from September?

Which has been overtaken by new data sets..

"The new data published today by the UK Health and Security Agency (better known as the agency formerly known as Public Health England) on the early evidence from the UK's booster programme. The news here is very promising. It suggests that two weeks after a booster dose of Pfizer, those who originally had two doses of AstraZeneca are up to 93.1% protection and those who originally had two Pfizer jabs are up to 94% protection."

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-boosters-not-only-replenish-immunity-against-transmission-but-lift-it-too-new-data-shows-12469600

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/covid-booster-shot-reduces-viral-load-limits-transmission-israeli-study-finds-1.10224174

tomgrange1978 · 20-12-2021 09:35PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118353561#Comment_118353561

New data and what not.

always come in handy to work back from your solution to the problem

Sunrise_Sunset · 20-12-2021 10:21PM

Got mine this evening, Moderna. My first 2 doses were Pfizer. Hoping I get through the night unscathed.

Fiery mutant · 20-12-2021 10:22PM

Got the Moderna booster yesterday, and I'm in bits after it. Spend the whole night vomiting, shaking uncontrollably and filled with the kind of pains that make me feel I've been hit by a car. Didn't have any reactions after the first two, but the booster had knocked me over.

Larbre34 · 20-12-2021 10:40PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118352136#Comment_118352136

Me too man. Sure they can bury us together if not!

My wife got a Moderna booster on Friday following two Pfizer doses (as I did myself) and she had noticeable reddening around the injection site for a couple of days and felt like shyt on Saturday night for a few hours, but she's brand new now. All signs it is working in her system.

I'm delighted to have got done today, even if tomorrow includes a few side effects, I'll be tip top for Crimbo.

MarkHenderson · 20-12-2021 10:42PM

My sister had the Moderna booster yesterday and was in a very bad way last night and all day today up until around 3pm. Uncontrollable shaking, stomach cramps and headaches. First two jabs of pfizer she was completely fine.

odyssey06 · 20-12-2021 10:43PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118353828#Comment_118353828

Sounds awful ... were your first two doses Moderna also?

A fair few people have a rough 36 hours from Moderna.

revelman · 20-12-2021 10:52PM

Zero reaction after first two Pfizer vaccines. Mildish side effects after Pfizer booster: fever-type symptoms, feeling a bit off and quite a sore arm.

Larbre34 · 20-12-2021 10:52PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118353925#Comment_118353925

Sounds like the symptoms suffered by Captain Oveur in Airplane. Did she have the fish?

But yes I've heard Moderna bringing out a reaction in people for 24 hours or so,y wife had similar symptoms but less severe.

My primary doses we're both Pfizer and I was fine with one and had a day of feeling ice cold and fatigued with the second.

It really does vary across a large spectrum for everybody, but its all signs that the vaccines are being metabolised properly.

Fiery mutant · 20-12-2021 10:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118353997#Comment_118353997

If that what your getting from this thread, then you still don’t understand.

nj27 · 20-12-2021 11:03PM

A friend of mine I haven't spoken to in a while called me out of the blue earlier tonight and the subject of boosters came up. He has been notified regarding his booster, but he was somewhat reluctant based on whether this will go on indefinitely and he wasn't too keen on getting jabbed every 6 months for x years. Eventually he asks me if I'm getting the booster and sure don't I go and tell him I haven't been vaccinated to begin with. There was a pause and he says "right" in a tone benefitting news of the recent murder of a relative, then he just hangs up! I was cackling a bit later when he sends me a voice message telling me I'm irresponsible and I should know better based on my education etc. I just sent a Pepe the frog meme and told him I'm a saint and an alpha chad etc and it wasn't long before I was blocked outright. Even his broad blocked me!

Pinch Flat · 20-12-2021 11:03PM

Got a moderna booster on Sunday. Woke up last night sweating and a temperature took some paracetamol which took the edge off of it. No appetite today. temperature of nearly 38. Flu like aches and pains. Struggled through work and now sat down on a Tidal binge 😉 starting to feel normal now. No second thoughts about my decision.

mary 2021 · 20-12-2021 11:03PM

💉🤣

Cluedo Monopoly · 20-12-2021 11:07PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118353991#Comment_118353991

The co-pilot Roger also had the fish and was a mess. 😉

ExoPolitic · 20-12-2021 11:09PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118187677#Comment_118187677

My source is the WHO actually... https://www.who.int/en/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants/

And they've updated that with a load more variants since my last post that were not publicly available to see.

Your turn, keyboard warrior.

Cluedo Monopoly · 20-12-2021 11:12PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118353997#Comment_118353997

I hear you - I am very much pro-vaccine and fully intend to get the booster in January. Pfizer only mind, I'd prefer not to mix vaccines.

However I wish the Irish people were a little more questioning. It just seems too easy to convince them. I would also like to see us out protesting about the creaking health system - one of the biggest problem wrt Covid is decades of declining hospital capacity/service. No wonder we bought the Roman church nonsense for so bloody long!

Shilock · 20-12-2021 11:16PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118354058#Comment_118354058

lol alpha Chad, obviously you've taken the red pill. For the life of me I don't know what has come over people, I thought there was nothing to divide a friendship. I'm vaccinated myself and I am starting to lack confidence in my decision to get boosted. I would prefer to catch the bleddy thing at this stage. I've had no close contacts that I've been informed about, or felt sick in nearly 2 years. I'm disgusted with the way people are looking at the unvaccinated, I'm shocked and saddened the way people are turning on people. Propaganda radio and television are a lot to blame. Actually I don't come across many people who have any humanity left when it comes to people's vaccine status. I took it in good faith I'd be protecting myself and others. Not so it gives me the right to be telling grown men and women that they're being irresponsible.

Larbre34 · 20-12-2021 11:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118354123#Comment_118354123

Its the creaking health system which is a major factor driving the Irish in world record numbers to get boosted.

Why would you stand by and risk a hospital admission when there is a prophylactic measure you can take?

Kinda obvious logic I would've thought.

Cluedo Monopoly · 20-12-2021 11:38PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118354175#Comment_118354175

But children? 5-11 year olds?

I expect most parents of 5-11 year olds will say absolutely no.

I also do not think that Omicron will bring a tidal wave of hospitalisations. Fingers crossed.

20-12-2021 11:47PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118354251#Comment_118354251

Surely the sheer weight of numbers likely to be getting it will lead to hospitilations,if it still A tiny percentage of cases??

Its growing at rate of about 1% an hour i read somewhere earlier.

Cluedo Monopoly · 20-12-2021 11:50PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118354296#Comment_118354296

Yes but 19 times less case fatality rate than Delta.

https://twitter.com/pieterstreicher/status/1472623879071936512

billyhead · 20-12-2021 11:53PM

Got my Pfizer booster earlier. Had the Pfizer vaccine in June @ July. No side effects so far. The whole process was very quick unlike the queueing and hanging around previously.

21-12-2021 12:01AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118354306#Comment_118354306

Great news,and interesting read that particular thread

Hospiteal bed occupancy falling,while an expectation of vented/icu still to peak,given sicker patients stay longer etc

Is this simply a case of deaths lagging similar to other waves,hopefully not......a 3% death rate off delta is horrendous,hopefully figures play out as hoped and the worst is behind us....i guess next few weeks will reveal all

Larbre34 · 21-12-2021 12:43AM

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Fingers crossed you say? What a policy.

Of course parents will want the vaccine for their children, by the hundreds of thousands!

By the time 99% of kids turn 5, they will already have received a dozen vaccines and boosters against Measles, Mumps Rubela, Hib, Meningitis B and C, Pneumonia, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Polio, Rotavirus and a partridge in a friggin pear tree!

Back in my day we also received the BCG against Tuberculosis, but guess what happened? Science almost eradicated it so it isn't even needed now!

Covid 19 vaccine is far less risky to kids than many of those I named above and yet it's a hill many gobshytes have chosen to die on. Just so dumb.

21-12-2021 12:53AM

I'll be all boostered up by noon tomorrow.

Finty Lemon · 21-12-2021 01:03AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118353913#Comment_118353913

A chicken Byriani and 2 beers later (takeout on a Monday!) and still all good. That was after some late night city centre shopping- the tyranny of women at Christmas!

Planning to vaccinate my cows with their IBR booster tomorrow morning. Since we started vaccinating 8 years ago we have had no issues with IBR. Go figure.

Get a good early morning start while the anti vaxxers are still cowering in their mammys box room.

Larbre34 · 21-12-2021 01:03AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118354296#Comment_118354296

Absolutely.

Yer lad from Il Divo, double vaccinated, got ill anyway, died.

Quite conceivably there may be 250 to 300,000 positive cases in the State at any one time.

Converting that into the documented ratios we've seen in hospital, that could be 1,500 cases as inpatients, and 3-400 needing intensive care. Current resources will barely cope with that, even if every other bit of health care is stood down. Barely.

Will you be taking a booster?

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