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> Hmmm, interesting. I read that paper and thought, wow, I'm glad I got a booster ;). I think your take and mine are both reasonable and based on different int
by iamdamian 5y ago
> Hmmm, interesting. I read that paper and thought, wow, I'm glad I got a booster ;).
I think your take and mine are both reasonable and based on different interpretations of tradeoffs.
With the original vaccine doses, you and I probably agreed. There was a somewhat objective case to strongly encourage vaccination of everyone. The alternative was to remain in lockdown indefinitely or risk some sort of collapse of the healthcare system.
Now, though, as we consider the booster, I think the choice is less objective or obvious. Our healthcare system is not at risk, and we can largely be free of lockdown with just the vaccine. There are real cons to a booster, including normalizing government mandates and not vaccinating the rest of the world. Some people may choose to have the peace of mind that comes from a booster. Others may choose not to. I'm hoping, though, that we can agree that mandates are not the way.
- kataklasm 5y agoI assume you are talking about the US there, since here in Germany we are racing to booster as many folks as possible right now as the nth wave is tsking over the country again. Hard restrictions for unvaccinated people, as makes sense. But the thing that counts is: our health care system is on the brink of collapse. The hospital staffs around the country are edging on breakdown. Health care workers simply can't hold off the storm much longer and we are headed right into a big wave of infections and thus bad disease courses. Unvaccinated people are clogging our ICUs, directly leading to deaaths of multiple groups of people waiting for surgery of various means. There's also an uptick in healthcare professionals leaving the field and major mental health issues even leading up to higher suicide rates.