Will you be taking a booster?

I think you have to understand that this virus is completely new, there is no precedent for it so the experts really don’t know…they are certainly doing their best with vaccines but no one knows for sure what could happen next. I’m not telling you to take the next jab, I’m older than you and I will because I have a lot less years to live with any after effects than you do. But breaking a social contract? Seriously?

I don't understand the logic where people are saying "the vaccines don't work so I'm not taking a booster".

In January we had a less transmissible variant, cases quadrupling in a week, and double the numbers in ICU. My kids were out of school for months.

This time round we have Delta, almost everything open with advisory WFH, and nobody is panicking.

I honestly think that some people believe the increased transmissibility of Delta is a fabrication invented by politicians and public health advisors.

"COVID spreads after vaccines have been rolled out so vaccines don't work so I'm not taking a booster" is the same logic as "I crashed my car under the speed limit, so speed limits don't work, so I'm going to ignore them".

I want to have as much social contact as possible with the lowest risk of getting sick or infecting other people. Government advice or regulations are completely irrelevant in this analysis. If there's evidence that a booster reduces those risks, I'll gladly take one. Pfizer's profits are neither here nor there. I don't rail against the cheesemongers when I decide to eat more cheese, and I don't rail against broccoli farmers when doctors advise me to eat more vegetables.

Are you compensated for sick days?

Numbers please? Define 'reasonably low.' Or, use a more accurate term, like, 'infinitesimal'

Sounds like good experimental data you're basing your decision on. Chatting with people, like, the same ones every time? You took a man-on-the-street poll?

Or, like in the various other threads you show up in, you're just being a WUM?

Opinions, yes, Facts, no. There are not alternative facts. Data are just recordings of observations, from which we derive facts and hopefully make an informed decision. The poster in question routinely posts sh1te on the politics threads, so I don't value his/her opinions as they're not derived from intelligent reasoning, just some sick desire to wind people up.

Chatting with people to decide is a way of gathering opinions, is all. I can chat with plenty of people that say get the booster as early as possible. That in and of itself is only part of the process of making a decision. Much like reading discussion of whether to get a booster on a message board.

But, to this point, no one on this thread has presented any data as to why, when available, you shouldn't get a booster. Someone posted some nonsense about people dying from vaccines - well, they didn't die from boosters, and the likelihood of them dying, was infinitesimal. Yes, any injection can kill you, it's a shame but it's not as likely (by orders of magnitude) of Covid killing you or seriously disabling you for the rest of your life. Those are facts not opinions.

why anyone wouldn't get the booster after getting the first jabs is beyond me. scientists aren't out to get you, or fool you and yes there is an element of the unknown here, this virus is only two years old, it takes time to get the vaccine optimal. listen to the scientists or we might as well pack up as a species and fade into extinction.

A few of my friends are saying the same. I will get the booster but I respect their decision. We've had good discussions about it.

You are 100% correct. We do not know the long term effects of the mRNA vaccines. It is likely there will be none worth mentioning but we do not know.

Who says their deaths were listed as Covid Vaccine related? This is Ireland ffs lol. They both died from heart problems(that had never been a medical issue before) according to their family members, and according to their family members it was no time after receiving the vaccinations! Chances are, knowing Ireland and its wonderfully transparent Health Service, they will NEVER be listed as covid vaccine related deaths or ever even investigated as such. Just people who happened to die very shortly after receiving their second dose of the vaccine.

Thats what worries a lot of people. We have a Health Service that has proven time and again that it cannot be trusted and yet here we are, putting blind faith into these people. Only this time, its with our own lives. This time its not another child with catastrophic birth injuries due to medical negligence or swine flu vaccine related compensation being paid out to yet another affected person(and this list for this is endless not just these two examples). This time they are leaving the responsibility to take this vaccine down to each individual and therefore absolving the HSE of any responsibility if anything goes wrong after you take it. But if you dont take it......we take away your freedoms and rights. Call me a liar if you want, doesn't bother me in the slightest, if it makes things more comfortable for you, fire away.

Coercion of the finest order that doesn't sit well with me.

Edit. I've edited for transparency. I've had both vac's. I was horrifically ill after the second dose for almost 4 months. And I'm not the only one. This factor may be the biggest hurdle in the reluctance for the boosters. Thats my reason for now not taking any further doses.