Will you be taking a booster?

Got my Pfizer booster earlier. Had the Pfizer vaccine in June @ July. No side effects so far. The whole process was very quick unlike the queueing and hanging around previously.

Fingers crossed you say? What a policy.

Of course parents will want the vaccine for their children, by the hundreds of thousands!

By the time 99% of kids turn 5, they will already have received a dozen vaccines and boosters against Measles, Mumps Rubela, Hib, Meningitis B and C, Pneumonia, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Polio, Rotavirus and a partridge in a friggin pear tree!

Back in my day we also received the BCG against Tuberculosis, but guess what happened? Science almost eradicated it so it isn't even needed now!

Covid 19 vaccine is far less risky to kids than many of those I named above and yet it's a hill many gobshytes have chosen to die on. Just so dumb.

A chicken Byriani and 2 beers later (takeout on a Monday!) and still all good. That was after some late night city centre shopping- the tyranny of women at Christmas!

Planning to vaccinate my cows with their IBR booster tomorrow morning. Since we started vaccinating 8 years ago we have had no issues with IBR. Go figure.

Get a good early morning start while the anti vaxxers are still cowering in their mammys box room.

His broad? That's wonderful. I have this vision of a 1920s American slang renaissance in the antivax community.

"Hey sweetcheeks, would you be a dawl and pick me up some Ivermectin from the drugstaw?"

Just an update, I have tested positive for covid. This was my preference to a booster. I have a runny nose. No headache, no scratchy throat, no cough, no temperature. I'm on day 3. I'm very high risk (originally cat 4 for vaccine)

Husband is fine.

Kids have no symptoms.

My opinion, get vaccinated to protect against severe disease, then get covid to gain immunity from the infection. Boosters perhaps are usefully for elderly people to avoid infection at all.

Yes the data looks very very good. I don't buy into the 'but thats South Africa' argument. When Delta was ripping through India, I dont recall people saying 'but thats India'.

Getting mine this afternoon..

Your same logic implies it's not novel to anyone's immune system the world over. It also implies you think they're the same thing.

HSE Twitter says no queue at the show centre Swords (Cloghran) at the moment, running until 11am, then again from 1240-4.

Croke Park starts at 1240 today, earlier than on the website. There's also clinics tomorrow afternoon and evening.

It is not novel to anyone vaccinated or recovered. Have a look at any interviews from 2020, the main concern was it was novel and we didn't know how the individual immune system would react.

Vaccines were literally made to train our immune systems.

As for the comment, my logic implies I think they're the same thing, that is how you interpertated that comment.

In fact, I'm simply pointing out that just as I'm not worried about catching any cold, flu or respiratory virus throughout the year I'm not worried about catching covid again either.

I have never (prior to 2020) not visited a friend or relative who had a cold/chest infection/flu. I never thought twice about it. And that's exactly how I will be going on again now. If your double vaxxed and boosted and still afraid, this includes making comments of I don't want to catch it at all, I'm sorry but you need to seek professional help.

In springtime there's going to be a lot of people suffering with PTSD when omicron helps us reach the herd immunity that vaccines never did.

What is dangerously stupid about it. Do you not believe vaccines work. I do. I trust them 100%. They protect from severe illness and death. So what's dangerously stupid about catching a mild virus and obtaining immunity that the vaccines don't give.

If you don't believe the vaccines work, why are you getting a booster?

I'm almost 10 months out from my vaccine, so the memory b cells and memory t cells clearly still work even after Nabs have waned. Many many scientists are talking about this component of the immune system but for some reason the antibodies is all anyone focuses on.

Nothing gives 100% protection to anything in life. I've never lived in fear of being part of the small percentage that something bad might happen to, and I refuse to do it again. The only thing guaranteed is death.

As for spreading it, this I'm aware but if spreading to other immune or vaccinated individuals then the very small percentage chance is not something to be afraid of.

And perhaps you think that is selfish, that's fine, I think it's selfish for a very small percentage of the population to want to close all pubs, schools, shops, family gatherings etc to protect them. How were the protected before 2020, I'd bet a lot never thought about restricting other people to protect them.

What is your endgame, covid will never be eradicated, it will circulate in society as does other viruses. Do we lock down every time cases go up? Do we vaccinate constantly (I'm actually not even against a tweaked yearly booster like our flu vaccines) Even though the Who have said vaccination is not the way out?

For me, this is my end game. I will never not enter a friends home who has a cold again. Do you not think at some point there will be no isolation for covid, I believe this will happen sooner or later.

As for booster giving control, we'll actually it just gives the illusion of control, as anyone who received the booster and caught covid within the month and had to isolate can attest to.

Oh it is very convinent, or perhaps its just science that vaccines work.

You believe what you want, but I know if my husband hadn't of been tested I would have carried on with life and never suspected covid.

If I was sick do you think I'd have the ability to function and debate online? I'm bored at home in isolation so here I am.