Will you be taking a booster?

This is an example of why certain people will remain ignorant no matter what you tell them. No matter what you say, they made their mind up a long time ago and no evidence, no stories, no nothing will change their mind. They will continue to live in blissful ignorance.

"Do you want to get a vaccine?"

"No thanks."

"You'll be safer if you do?"

"In your opinion."

"Not in my opinion. That's what the data shows."

"I don't care. I don't have to get one."

"I didn't say you have to get one. I asked you why you aren't getting one?"

"I just don't want one."

"Why not?"

"It's not been fully tested."

"It's been FDA approved."

"Yeah but it was rushed."

"It was developed quickly because researchers around the world worked together as quickly as possible as we're in a pandemic. It was tested as much as any vaccine, including the ones you had as a child, and used methods that had been in development for the past 20 years."

"In your opinion".

"Not in my opinion. You can read the papers about it."

"Why would I read papers about something I don't want?"

"Because you haven't explained why you don't want it."

"We don't know the long-term side effects."

"In the history of vaccines, only two vaccines had long term side effects. And they were both live vaccines. These are not live vaccines. A basic understanding of vaccines would tell you that it doesn't even make sense to suggest that vaccines like this can have long-term side effects."

"In your opinion."

"Not in my opinion. Just like it's not my opinion that Covid has long term side effects."

"Yeah but I'm in my 20s so I'll be fine."

"By that logic, you'll also be fine if you take a vaccine."

"Yeah but... shut up."

"Weren't you at the lockdown protest last week?"

"Of course I was! Damn government thinks they can tell me what I can and can't do."

"What do you think we should instead do?"

"What do you mean?"

"To end the pandemic?"

"Well, vaccines and lockdowns haven't worked have they? There's still a pandemic."

"Vaccines and lockdowns are however stopping the hospitals from being overwhelmed."

"Don't care."

"Weren't you clapping for the nurses outside your house last year? You do care."

"Shut up."

"So, what do you think we should do?"

"Just vaccinate the vulnerable."

"We have the vulnerable vaccinated. And boosted them. As well as a large portion of the non-vulnerable vaccinated and boosted. And yet the data shows that we still need a lockdown to not overwhelm the hospitals. Because some people, like yourself, refuse to be vaccinated."

"No, it's because the vaccines don't work with Omicron."

"They do still work. They're just not as effective against this mutation compared to the previous mutation. Which is why it's important that people like yourself start getting vaccinated. Vaccines still keep the numbers down in hospitals with this mutation, which is what matters."

"Only if you're boosted. What a coincidence."

"Coincidence?"

"Just as the vaccine is wearing off, we've been given a reason to get boosted. Big Pharma doing their thing."

"What? What are you suggesting? That Omicron was intentionally created?"

"I don't know, and don't care."

"You read that on Facebook didn't you?"

"Shut up. Besides, I'm not taking a booster every 3 months forever."

"Why not?"

"Because I've heard you can get a bad headache and stuff from it. I'm not putting something into my body that can cause that if I don't have to, and especially not regularly."

"Weren't you in bed all day yesterday with a hangover?"

"Shut up."

"And last weekend?"

"I said shut up."

"And it won't be forever. Covid does not want to kill the host, it wants to survive. And it will do that by mutating to be more transmissible and less lethal, which is what it looks like we're seeing with Omicron.

"Great, so Omicron is less worrisome."

"I didn't say that. While it looks like it might be less lethal, it might still be so transmissible that more people will end up hospital. We don't have enough data yet to know."

"So mutations won't end the pandemic. It might even keeping getting worse."

"No. As I said, Covid does not want the host to die. Eventually, a mutation that's very transmissible but only as lethal as something like the flu will dominate. Then, the pandemic will end and things will get back to normal."

"And when will that happen?"

"We don't know. We cannot predict how and when Covid will mutate. It might be the next mutation, it might be a couple of mutations. All we know is that there may be some more waves until then, and we need to protect the vulnerable in the meantime."

"Great."

"So, you'll get vaccinated?"

"No thanks."

"Look, it's winter. Lots of people usually get sick around now anyway. Are you not concerned that there won't be any beds for these people?"

"It'll work itself out."

"Didn't your mom die of cancer a few years ago after a decade-long battle?"

"Yeah, so?"

"Are you not concerned about similar people now?"

"Of course I am."

"So, you'll get vaccinated?"

"No thanks."

They'll keep going round and round in circles, all the while not listening or absorbing anything you're saying. They made their mind up a long time ago.

And some, like this poster, will even come into a thread like this and say it proudly. As if it makes them brave. As if it makes them a hard man. When in fact it just makes them look like a little bitch for being afraid of a vaccine.

I'm double vaxxed and don't want to get the booster.

Will put it off for as long as possible.

But ultimately I don't want to be a social outcast. I have friends' weddings I would like to attend next year.

I just don't see the data there for people in their 30s to rush to get the 3rd jab to protect 'themselves and the health service'. I already have sufficient protection from the first two.

When there's double jabbed 30 year olds in ICU, I might reconsider.