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> Is it to protect the vaccinated? This makes no sense, as the risk to the vaccinated well below the range we have accepted for decades. What is the acceptable
by tomerv 5y ago
> Is it to protect the vaccinated? This makes no sense, as the risk to the vaccinated well below the range we have accepted for decades.
What is the acceptable range? Older people are still dying from Covid even after 2 shots. If a third shot can improve someone's protection from death due to Covid, say from 70% to 90% [1], that sounds like a good reason to take that shot.
The comparison between someone in Israel taking a booster shot and someone in a 3rd world country without access to vaccines is irrelevant - at least until there's a serious global initiative to provide vaccines to everyone around the world.
[1] Original stats talked about 90% protection, but that has gone down since then. One of the possible reasons is the need for a booster shot. But we still don't know what level of protection the booster shot will provide.
- pbaka 5y ago> taking a booster shot and someone in a 3rd world country without access to vaccines is irrelevant It is in a world with limited production capacity, unless you think improving the odds of survival from 70%->90% in industrialized countries trumps improving 0%->90 in the rest of the planet : - The US factories are barely getting online. - 80% of the mRNA vaccines production capacity is still between Switzerland, Belgium, Germany and Spain. - Viral Vector capacity (non-Sputnik, which Russia licenses freely) is also mostly between Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and the UK, with some precursors in India.
- gitanovic 5y agoAs long as they don't impose to me (40 y.o.) to catch a plane... fine with me I am getting very wary of the whole situation. "As soon as we get a vaccine we are good". Now we have the bloody thing, I got injected with it hoping to get back to normal: "We need a booster shot" I was always pretty rational about it, but this is becoming a farce
- spookthesunset 5y agoThere is a good chunk of society that absolutely refuses to move on.
- ryandrake 5y agoYea, They can easily end this by just getting the jab, but choose not to. I'm starting to think the anti-mask, anti-vax crowd actually loves COVID and stay-at-home and all these restrictions. With COVID, these people imagine themselves as powerful freedom fighters, knowers of The Truth, battling the authoritarian government, standing lone against evil, occasionally martyrs for the cause--just like Braveheart! Without this imagined COVID tyranny, they're just normal schmucks like the rest of us.
- gitanovic 5y agomhh you might be right some people need a villain to justify the evil in the world