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@WuWei

Why not kids?

Still in trials for kids under 12 and kids 12 to 18, are months away from the 8 month booster threshold.

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@Toll_Collector

If the vaccine wanes over time, wouldn’t we eventually be back to square one?

No. Even a waning vaccine provides protection to reduce the severity of illness and getting ill provides natural immunity. Ideally, we will all get infected and those of us who survive will have an immune system that is prepared the next time we are exposed.

It’s important to understand that this virus is not going to go away. The best long term strategy to deal with it is to minimize serious illness and death through the use of vaccines until humanity has developed a widespread natural immune response to it. At some point, if the virus maintains its virility, the vaccine could be relegated to the battery of childhood vaccines like measles, mumps and rubella (and many more.)

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@Toll_Collector

I got the J&J vaccine. I’m done. I’m not taking any boosters. I’m not taking another Covid vaccine in the near future. In a few years if they come out with a totally new vaccine for some new strain, I’ll consider it.

That’s not an illogical decision. The J&J vaccine produces a “traditional” immune response, and while you are more likely to become ill if you are infected than with the other two vaccines, you are less likely to need hospitalization or to die as a result. And in becoming ill, you strengthen the immune response that the vaccine provided.

But getting the booster would be logical too as any bad illnesses, even if it doesn’t require hospitalization, is worse than not getting noticeably sick at all.

[Ben_Natuf]

that depends on your strategy.

if your strategy is to prevent from getting covid, then logically you get the booster, and when the antibodies wear off, you get it again, and again, and again.

if your strategy is to have broader protection against variants and serious illness, its more logical to get vaxed and then chance covid while we know that the current variants are less dangerous than what might come 6 months or 6 years from now.

neither is guaranteed, both have risks.

[Paul_Thomson]

@WuWei

The vote against boosters was 16 to 2. What the hell is going on?

CCP - Democrat collusion to divide and rule.

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@Ben_Natuf

that depends on your strategy.

if your strategy is to prevent from getting covid, then logically you get the booster, and when the antibodies wear off, you get it again, and again, and again.

if your strategy is to have broader protection against variants and serious illness, its more logical to get vaxed and then chance covid while we know that the current variants are less dangerous than what might come 6 months or 6 years from now.

neither is guaranteed, both have risks.

But if you are getting either of the mRNA vaccines, you can still be infected and thus develop antibodies to the virus as well as having the antibodies to the protein that the vaccine provides. The booster does not inhibit the eventuality of that process.