My last jab

[Klaus]

Getting my booster shot tomorrow.

Unless something very significant happens, I’m done with vaccination after that. There are government plans about a booster shot every three months, indefinitely. I’m not going to do that, regardless of the pressure.

I want a definite time plan back to normal life, and I’m ready to accept an increased risk of illness for that. I’m not ready to continue this shit indefinitely.

[George K]

@klaus said in My last jab:

There are government plans about a booster shot every three months, indefinitely. I’m not going to do that, regardless of the pressure.

I've seen posts/tweets/videos of people in Germany getting arrested for not being vaccinated. Do you think this type of authoritarianism will stop with "vaccinated"?

Or will it continue with "vaccinated twice?"

Or "boosted?"

Or "re-boosted?"

Where does it end?
Does it end?

When it comes down to your livelihood, what will you do?

[LuFins Dad]

@klaus said in My last jab:

Getting my booster shot tomorrow.

Unless something very significant happens, I’m done with vaccination after that. There are government plans about a booster shot every three months, indefinitely. I’m not going to do that, regardless of the pressure.

I want a definite time plan back to normal life, and I’m ready to accept an increased risk of illness for that. I’m not ready to continue this shit indefinitely.

I haven’t decided about the booster yet. I’m leaning against it, but am technically not due until next month and am willing to admit that I may change my mind.

[Jolly]

Damn anti-vaxxer...

[Renauda]

Had my booster ten days ago. No side effects other than a desire for an afternoon nap that day. Best side effects were last June when I got my second shot. My post prostatectomy incontinence ceased. I was able to go back to no pads and wearing boxer shorts again. Gawd damn, I hated those jockey gaunch after 30 years of wearing boxers.

[Mik]

Boxers rock. Won't wear anything else.

[George K]

I don't understand the thinking behind getting the first shot of a vaccination, then the second, and being reticent about the "booster."

If you were OK with 1 and 2, why, other than the "I'm going to shake my fist at the sky" rebellion against "authority", do object to the booster?

[Aqua Letifer]

@george-k said in My last jab:

Where does it end?
Does it end?
When it comes down to your livelihood, what will you do?

I'm going to get the damn shots?

[George K]

@aqua-letifer said in My last jab:

I'm going to get the damn shots?

I was "boosted" in October. I have a 6 month alert set for April.

[LuFins Dad]

@george-k said in My last jab:

@aqua-letifer said in My last jab:

I'm going to get the damn shots?

I was "boosted" in October. I have a 6 month alert set for April.

At the rate things are going, you may want to move that up until February.

[jon-nyc]

Had my first booster in May, second in August, third in October.

Fourth will be in the new year at some point.

As long as this is hanging over me like the sword of Damocles, I’ll do what I need to to keep my antibodies up.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in My last jab:

Had my first booster in May, second in August, third in October.

Fourth will be in the new year at some point.

As long as this is hanging over me like the sword of Damocles, I’ll do what I need to to keep my antibodies up.

Yup. Agreed.

February is fine for me.

[Doctor Phibes]

I've had my booster. I'm doing what's recommended - in fact, I got the booster before it was strictly allowed for my age group.

I don't see a good reason not to get the booster, other than the fact that I felt like shit for 24 hours.

[89th]

@doctor-phibes said in My last jab:

I've had my booster. I'm doing what's recommended - in fact, I got the booster before it was strictly allowed for my age group.

Same here. Got it Oct 4th, glad I did.

[89th]

@george-k said in My last jab:

I don't understand the thinking behind getting the first shot of a vaccination, then the second, and being reticent about the "booster."

If you were OK with 1 and 2, why, other than the "I'm going to shake my fist at the sky" rebellion against "authority", do object to the booster?

Stole my question. I’m curious too. I can understand not wanting to get one every 3 months indefinitely, though. Unless I was old.

[LuFins Dad]

@george-k said in My last jab:

I don't understand the thinking behind getting the first shot of a vaccination, then the second, and being reticent about the "booster."

If you were OK with 1 and 2, why, other than the "I'm going to shake my fist at the sky" rebellion against "authority", do object to the booster?

Because at this point I’m supposedly protected against severe disease. The vaccines and boosters seem to be doing damn little to slow the spread of Xi variant, so preventing spread seems to be futile. Moderna announced yesterday that their Booster offers 40 times more protection than just their base 2 doses. Great. 40 times 0 is 0, woohoo. (Or should I say Wuhan?) Without knowing that first variable, we have no way to have an educated decision on whether the booster truly and effectively helps prevent spread. Nobody has explained to this point why a third dose will now produce a different type of antibodies than the first and second shots, and the UK has had a robust booster program in place for several months now. I’d say their numbers seem to indicate that the booster isn’t that great at stopping Xi.

So why should I go get another shot of something that doesn’t appear to give me that much more protection than I already have? The risk/reward doesn’t measure up quite the same way that it did for the first vaccination. Especially when there will likely be a Xi specific booster in 2 months and we will have a much better understanding of the risks.

Yes, there could be an argument that I pose a risk to those that are immune compromised but looking at the numbers, I honestly don’t believe that an unvaccinated person poses that much bigger a threat than somebody fully vaccinated and boosted. Of the 7 people in my circle that got COVID over the last two weeks, five were fully vaxxed and 3 were boosted.

[bachophile]

It’s 6 am here

Woke up. Fell out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head (not really)

Found my way downstairs and had a cup

And looking up, I noticed….

Fourth shot being offered here…..

Hahaha I don’t even know what to think.
But what the hey, I’ll do whatever our infectious people say, I’m the ultimate lab rat.

[89th]

@lufins-dad I think your last sentence is your lead reason, and that sucks! That being said, I don't see "risk/reward" with booster. It's not like the risk is any different from the first shot. And studies (even if it's times zero) show you have a 25-40x antibodies with the booster, so... why not.

Then again, if I were old or really fat, I would be more worried.

[Aqua Letifer]

@89th said in My last jab:

@lufins-dad I think your last sentence is your lead reason, and that sucks! That being said, I don't see "risk/reward" with booster. It's not like the risk is any different from the first shot. And studies (even if it's times zero) show you have a 25-40x antibodies with the booster, so... why not.

Then again, if I were old or really fat, I would be more worried.

You're not bulletproof just because you're neither.

[89th]

@aqua-letifer I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I meant most of those dying from COVID are in those categories.