Will you be taking a booster?

It was never a deadly infectionf for the majority. It is the percentage of the population with an inability to fight it off that we are protecting.

The reasons for taking this immunisation are the exact same as why I take the Flu shot each and every year...not for myself but for those around me who I know would be knocked for six if I brought it in to the household.

Immunisation is the right and moral thing to do. We put up with feeling under the weather for a day or two to protect those who need to be protected.

You don't care one jot about anyone but yourself and using boards.ie as a platform to undermine this effort by Society to protect its most vulnerable members makes you a very dangerous person. If we could avoid you we would but you not only refuse to take the shot but refuse to remain indoors and away from the public until the risk has subsided and potentially infecting others.

You'll use any argument you can to undermine this including calling in to doubt the morals and motivations of those who are trying to protect those who are vulnerable. Conspiracy theories about greed, hidden vested interests and population control are your tools in trade.

This is fake news which you and others continue to perpetuate.

If you are not shedding virus then you are not spreading infection. Those who are immunised do not shed virus to any appreciable extent and are contagious for a very short period of time compared to those who are not.

The anti-vaxxers continue to suggest that those who are vaccinated are as contagious to the same extent and for as long as the unvaccinated and this has been shown to be completely untrue.

Nice virtue signalling. I notice you completely ignored the fact that multiple politicians have resigned amid corruption allegations. Matt Hancock in the UK, too. Supposed to be saving lives and social distancing, but was having an affair with his assistant instead 😄 Does he only care about himself as well?

Here's an excerpt from an article on Moderna a few years back re: mRNA:

"Delivery — actually getting RNA into cells — has long bedeviled the whole field. On their own, RNA molecules have a hard time reaching their targets. They work better if they’re wrapped up in a delivery mechanism, such as nanoparticles made of lipids. But those nanoparticles can lead to dangerous side effects, especially if a patient has to take repeated doses over months or years.

Novartis abandoned the related realm of RNA interference over concerns about toxicity, as did Merck and Roche."

So, you keep taking your boosters every few months. I support your free choice to do so, even if, as the poster above pointed out, the vaxxes/boosters don't prevent infection or transmission.

Just don't expect everyone else to do the same.

Pointing out the politicians who've resigned during this pandemic due to corruption investigations was to shoot-down your naive belief that politicians "have no interest in enriching themselves". Others have told you the same.

Viruses mutate endlessly and hence there'll always be variants. Therefore, you do realize you'll likely be boosting twice a year for many years to come? Jacinda Ardern (NZ PM) said there was no end in sight to booster programmes.

Loads of people who are double jabbed are already saying they're not taking any more as there will be no end to it. Are they all "anti-vax" now as well?

Also explain to me why Pfizer are hesitant to go into countries where they are not granted indemnity against side effects etc? I encourage you to actually think about that, instead of just reverting to your "politicians and pharma companies are only trying to save lives, not enrich themselves" automatic response.

Accept that this vaccine may eventually be rolled in to the flu shot and it won't be twice a year but once a year in the run up to Winter to prevent a Winter wave. We see that the risk retreats in summer.

6 monthly booster shots is fake news.