Will you be taking a booster?

So many falsehoods in such a few sentences. Poster is well know anti-vax CT spreader.

So... if you're blonde, are you more likely to spread Covid in Scandinavia? Second, 'it used to be.' Again, fake opinion. Vaccine reduces transmission as has been repeatedly explained here. That the vaccines were not designed to prevent transmission - no vaccine is - is a strawman

Got you, be cautious of vaccines because no one knows the long term effects

I fall into the 40-49 category.

I got a text from gp asking to register for booster next week so I took appointment. Bit surprised to get offered one so quickly.

I got first two jabs in NI but managed to get them registered down here.

Getting a booster next week. Would recommend you all do the same.

Yep, so why the rush? Not for the first time, you get the sense that we are either not getting all the facts and/or that the authorities are just guessing.

Antivax CT spreader?

Both pfizer and moderna people and ceo tripping over themselves talking about need of a new vaccine for omicron because current one may not be that good... It is not me who is saying transmission reduction is not what it used to be. Also need for a booster and booster number 2 is dead giveaway that this is the case.

Once again. You are talking about preventing transmission. Not me.

And caution might advise not stampeding people into vaccine programmes. Let the public be fully informed and be able to make a rational decision as to what's in their own and societies best interests.

The first vaccine programme was sold largely on the basis that you might still catch Covid but that the worst effects would be mitigated. That was either correct and all well and good or it was a lie or partial truth. If it was correct, the healthy population at large have little to fear.

Yeah, you're an anti-vax CT spreader. Advocating for ivermectin in other threads is just one example. The newest successful variants are more contagious. And, yeah, additional doses of vaccines reduce the chance you contract the disease, and spread it to others.

Do try to keep up.

I was very keen to get a booster but the continuous faffing around is pushing me increasingly towards not bothering. Fed up of trying to keep up to speed with things and contacting people to try and get one only to be told I’m not eligible. First it was 3 months after j&j, regardless of age. A couple of days later there’s a u-turn. Then it’s pharmacies and GPs can give vaccines to anyone over 16. U-turn on the pharmacies part after a couple of hours. I emailed a couple of GPs but they’re only doing their own patients. I don’t have a GP so apparently I can just go fúck myself. I can’t see how the logistics of getting it to every GP is any easier than just ramping up the mass vaccination centres anyway. We just seem to be making things unnecessarily difficult.

Meanwhile that clown of a Taoiseach is constantly giving out about people not getting boosters. I’ve been wanting to get mine for weeks but have been denied the chance, while people who don’t want to or can’t attend appointments are being offered them over and over again. It’s incredibly frustrating.

Im not eligible for that either according to the HSE website.

Absolutely not. Whatever the morbidity associated with getting the vaccine, the morbidity associated with contracting Covid is unquestionably far, far greater. Contracting Covid is, by orders of magnitude, the most dangerous way to acquire immunity, and the danger is both for you and for your family and social contacts.

People who express concerns about the safety of vaccines and at the same time advocate allowing Covid to spread as a mechanism for building up immunity are — and I'm putting this as politely as I can — complete fücking idiots. They should only be trusted with plastic cutlery and shouldn't be let out of the house alone.

Anyone seriously considering not getting their booster needs their head examined. This is to protect both yourself and the people around you, it’s not the extra sauce on your sandwich, it’s essential.

We are living through a public health emergency with a new variant and there are people on here considering not taking the booster. madness.

I was unwell for 2 months after my second, with neurological symptoms, no explanation and no prognosis for what might happen after the booster. Is that informed consent?

i just got an appointment by text, I won’t be going.

Yes and did it yesterday