Will you be taking a booster?

Hmm. Another epidemiologist joins the thread. Please define too often, show how you know that, and do tell us how you're privy to the HSE's plans in the events you envision. And why would the CDC recommend it?

Link?

My evidence is that we are already on record, eight variations of the virus. That's a pretty easy conclusion to come to...

I know, it's almost comical seeing them run around like headless chickens announcing things everyday almost at this stage.

NIAC now recommending boosters after 3 months for J&J recipients? That's a hard no from me, it doesn't matter how many months. I'll stick to the data that guides my own risk status, especially if they can't even promise mroe than 3 months efficacy with the vaccine. Who would trust a booster campaign? Only the gullible and ignorant.

I will take the booster if offered. Nothing to lose really and I have surgery on the Ticker coming up so the more protection (hopefully) I have before entering the germ ridden hospital the better. I feel like a fekkin pincushion though.... double vax, the flu jab, the pneumococcal next week and hopefully a booster before yer man the surgeon has his scalpel sharpened.

I don't stress over it, just stick my arm out now, it takes too much energy to analyse parse and dissect everything, so I'll just take it like many others have decided to do.

You don't speak for all vaccinated people, many vaccinated people oppose the certs, there's no clear 'us' and 'them' demarcated purely in terms of vaccination status.

The certs were supposed to be short-term temporary and in fact they are still supposed to be short-term temporary.

Few are prepared to cut people they care about out of their lives over a media-public health-political issue. Many people don't even follow politics.

The controversy over the certs will rage for as long as the certs exist, so if you consider this 'whining' you'd better drop out and stop reading these forums.

We shouldn't assume that people agree with them just because they haven't staged passionate protests against them. Most people want a quiet life and are passive AND they've been told the certs are a temporary 'tool' that will soon be gone. But what you seemed to be implying is that cert-holders form some kind of purposive bloc putting pressure on the unvaccinated which is not how I see it at all.

If one of my friends can't get into a place, we all go somewhere else (about 10 or sometimes more of us, and I only have two friends who haven't been vaccinated).

Lots of people simply zone out of public affairs. One of my friends didn't even know who Tony Holohan is.

You have to look at this in the context of what's open now. If anything, even though the numbers in hospital are high, the vaccines are having a great effect because of the fact that we can have full stadiums for rugby, concerts etc... again. And the unvaccinated do continue to make up the majority of hospital/ICU admissions (per 100k).