Will you be taking a booster?

Protection against transmission is the same as protection from being infected. There is no data there on how much being boosted reduces your chances of spreading.

And for the record, got the booster today in local GP - so 3rd Pfizer, 5 months since 2nd dose. Afaik have never had covid.

You can try. Its a matter of luck. Some are full already. Some focusing on priority patients. Some have slots.

Check your own GPs website for info is best bet.

Nearly all the country is jabbed, now lining up for their third jab. In spite of that the mess is still here and appears to be still getting worse.

I think the threshold for the belief that vaccinating your way out of this pandemic has long past. The new restrictions this week target nothing but the services and amenities the vaccinated can avail of, you can try and pin that on the unvaxxed but making a constructive argument to prove that without invalidating the saviour belief in the vaccine will probably be an ask. The vaccine sure helps but it ain't solving anything in my opinion.

Every single adult I have known in the past two months that have contracted covid have been vaccinated, they have spread it onto their vaccinated family too.

You do realise there's a new variant in town?

You do realise that mutations occur and the slower we are to cutting the spread the more it'll mutate, yeah?

And all those friends you know who contracted Covid and were vax'd, most are still alive? High probability more dead than alive if they weren't.

But you probably know all that....🙄

Equating or comparing previous vaccines and vaccine technology used to eradicate pretty much any previous decease/virus prior to covid 19 & the messenger rna vaccines predominantly used in covid vaccines is really like comparing apples to oranges. They are absolutely different.

The triggering immune response promised with mrna vaccines continues to be vastly overstated. They aren't near as effective as originally thought and absolutely will not end this pandemic alone in my opinion (I'm not a doctor, I can use my brain though to for critical thought).

Yes, a new variant that thus far proving more transmissible but far far less deadly. Just like what pretty much every other virus does.

Also you are assuming incorrectly, a family friend passed last week who was fully vaccinated but had a catalogue of existing pulmonary conditions so not entirely covid.

If I'm comparing my covid experience earlier this year when I was unvaxxed it was a light cold. Anyone I know who has been vaxxed and subsequently contracted covid seem to experience a much more diverse range of symptoms which also seems to last longer. This includes my own sister who is suffering what could probably medically be considered long covid in spite of the fact she was fully vaxxed two months by the time she and her boyfriend (who was also fully vaxxed) caught it.

Also if anyone is picking me up as anti vax you are wrong, I absolutely support vaccinations. What I don't support the current trend of not objectively looking at things and questioning things that don't appear to make sense.

in fairness they are the way out.

the current vaccines were never going to remove the possible need for some restrictions and nobody really said they would, rather people thought that was what was said as it was what they wanted to hear.

eventually vaccines will come on stream that will be more effective, or perhapse future strains will be a lot weaker.

either way we will get out of this and we are on the way out.

I was supposed to que up today for my booster but I'm going back to bed.

Well, I'm double dosed,flu jab too, and got a virus that knocked me on my ass for the best part of 3 weeks,10 days of which all I could do was lay on the sofa, everything was so draining.. chest infection,tested twice for covid both negative... But the truth, nobody believed I could be 'that' bad, because I didn't have covid.

And I'm a mask wearer in work,and sanitizer.

Fcuk viruses.

Absolute mayhem here in Navan for first morning of 40s boosters. People here since 6am. Facility closed as it's full with hundreds in the Q outside.

Queues just mean queues! Quite a few walk-ins have been turning large numbers away.

Since 6am? Jesus I'm glad I stayed in bed. I'm gonna try Christmas Eve morning.

The queues are madness so by all accounts. Free for all a joke.