Anyone else feel ashamed of getting the Covid shots?

Ok but that doesn't explain the poor uptake rate for Covid boosters amongst frontline health workers. What's your take on that? I think it was 18%.

Ok fair enough.

Nope. You are fabricating anti vax propaganda, again.

There is no good faith reading that turns "Floored for a day or so" into "pretty severe side effects".

And already explained on thread in the context of the vaccine rollout in 2021 pre Omicron, the benefits of initial vaccination were far more significant than the marginal gain from boosters. And benefits of those doses are lasting even v Omicron.

We are getting nowhere while you comtinue to misrepresent, while you post anti vax claims without foundation, and feign ignorance even as multiple posters discredit your claims with factual scientific studies.

At least you have stopped trying to cite unverifiable friends / jobs, to garnish your claims in lieu of actual evidence.

Ah earlier on thread you seemed to suggest you decided not to get vaxxed well before Omicron. So you have invalidated your own point, as you shift the goalposts back and forwards as needed to suit the current dubious claim.

Not everybody will be floored for day or so by vaccines, it is a possibility that is all. The probability and range of symptoms for Omicron and later variants is much worse as attested in studies and by posters on this forum reporting symptoms.

Floored for a day is not a severe side effect under any generally accepted definition of it. That is your own invention as likely is such a dubious claim as never having spent a sick day in bed ever.

I have seen this playbook before... and here is the attempt at playing the victim when someone starts poking holes in the inconsistencies and contradictions in your claims.

You seem to be the one drastically looking for anti vaxxer evidence when you got caught out admitting (probably you) was floored for the day after taking your beloved drug.

Mild in medical terminology means not requiring hospital treatment and recovering. Having to spend a day in bed is mild.

https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/mild-covid-symptoms#:~:text=Mild%20COVID%2D19%20symptoms%20mean,%2C%20headache%2C%20and%20sore%20throat.

"Beloved drug."

Nope. It is a vaccine. Standard anti vax operating procedure to call it something other than vaccine.

Remarkable you claim you are not an anti vaxxer yet repeat their tropes.

LAV have been tried and mostly failed for coronavirus (colds in this case) previously due to low efficacy rates, though they are still trying.

If mRNA is your worry, then Novavax or Valneva might be more up your street, if you're willing to accept lower efficacy (side effects are similar).

But it does fly in the face of your "big pharma" argument.

Unless you had the virus sequenced there is no way of knowing which variant you got or if you had previously been exposed and hadn't noticed (unless you were suffering severe symptoms in which case they may sequence the variant).

Ill steer clear of both really. I dont trust the Chinese or Russians for that matter. Virus originated in China so good possibility they had access to data before anyone else. Not a huge fan of big pharma either but they are a necessary evil. If there is money to be made we all like to maximise it. Cant blame them on that. In my business I have been accused of the same myself. And a certain amount of truth to it (my business). Nothing like a good crisis to make a lot of money.

Ok hold on a minute. You wrote "You're statement is false" twice now in 2 separate posts. It makes my head hurt. That reads as "You are statement is false".

It's "Your". Your statement. You're means You are.

Fairly obvious what he means. Its worse with 'loose' and 'lose' especially if the context of the sentence is lost with the incorrect word. The standard of English these days is not great.