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That still doesn't sound like a strong argument against it to me. Getting the booster might help or might not help as much as was said. Not getting it does no

• timr 5y ago
  > It sounds to me like getting a booster is a safe...and typically very mild side effects. Based on what, exactly? Also, you can drive a truck through the gap left by "typically", here. People with two doses of the vaccines will "typically" never become seriously ill. We don't prescribe (let alone, mandate) medications because "it might help and people are scared". You have to show the benefits exceed the costs for everyone for whom you are making the recommendation. And the "costs" here don't just include things like heart inflammation (which is a real risk amongst young boys, in particular), but also the societal cost of otherwise healthy people being vaccine-sick for 1-3 days post-booster. Why do that, if it isn't going to provide a real benefit? Also, I don't know if you noticed this in what I wrote, but the WHO is practically begging rich western nations to stop hoarding vaccines for healthy people, so that poor nations can get first doses. Meanwhile, we have a new variant...plausibly out of a poor, under-vaccinated nation. Just a coincidence, though!