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https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/09/01/cdc-fall-booster-shots/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/09/01/cdc-fall-bo... The Centers for Diseas

by nope96 4y ago

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/09/01/cdc-fall-booster-shots/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/09/01/cdc-fall-bo... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Thursday that millions of eligible Americans, including those as young as 12, get an updated omicron-targeting booster shot to bolster defenses against serious illness and death during a potential fall or winter rise in covid-19 cases. If you doctor is telling you not to get the booster, you need a better doctor.

peteradio 4y ago
- nope96 4y ago
  Seriously, you need a better doctor. What did your doctor say, specifically? That you should not get the newest Covid booster? Have you ever been vaccinated? Calling me a jerk is rude. What's also rude? Refusing to get a vaccine that will protect you and others because you are afraid it will somehow hurt you.
  - purpleblue 4y ago
    - inferiorhuman 4y ago
      Monica Gandhi who is a well known epidimeologist at UCSF and the furthest from an anti-vaxxer has said publicly she will not vax her kids with the COVID vaccine because there's no proof that it's needed for healthy children. No, she fucking didn't. Even the Daily Mail debunks your lies. Monica Gandhi, for all her faults, vaccinated her children. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10448853/Top-doctors-refuse-kids-shot-myocarditis-concerns.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10448853/Top-doctor... Both Gandhi and Offit, who have advocated for the vaccine and gotten themselves and their children vaccinated, claimed the CDC was premature in advising teens to get a COVID booster shot on January 5, with Gandhi saying, 'I am not giving my 12 and 14-year-old boys boosters.' Or as she wrote for the SF Chronicle: There should be no argument over whether vaccinating children against COVID is necessary; instead, our focus should be on the best way to do it. https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Yes-kids-5-to-11-need-a-COVID-shot-say-doctors-16583436.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Yes-ki...
      - purpleblue 4y ago
        I stand corrected. I got her not getting boosters for her boys as her not getting them vaccinated.
ckw 4y ago
UCSF professor Vinay Prasad making the case against the new boosters (and claiming that those responsible for these recommendations ‘exhibit a pattern of gross incompetence’): https://youtu.be/USKDUvKmN5Q https://youtu.be/USKDUvKmN5Q
- inferiorhuman 4y ago
  If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be Vinay Prasad. Regardless of where he works he's still compared mask and vaccine mandates to the Third Reich. Most public health officials have a much lower tolerance for death or lasting injury than Prasad does. Even amongst laypeople Prasad's tolerance for someone elsedying is much higher than that of those other people. A pattern of gross incompetence is the kind of thing you'd typically only level at people trying to Godwin their way out of scientific discourse.
  - ckw 4y ago
    This is pure ad hominem. Are his claims false? Is his reasoning unsound?
    - inferiorhuman 4y ago
      > Are his claims false? Yes
      - ckw 4y ago
        So engage with those. How are those reading this thread edified by you simply claiming they are false, but presenting no evidence?
        inferiorhuman 4y ago
        By virtue of the fact that neither myself nor that guy live in Nazi Germany is prima facie evidence that he's not worth taking seriously. If you shit your pants and then proceed to smear it all over yourself and then the ceiling while humming the Bonanza theme song don't be surprised when people don't engage you. If you want an earnest discussion find someone making an earnest argument.

by nope96 4y ago

peteradio 4y ago

nope96 4y ago
Seriously, you need a better doctor. What did your doctor say, specifically? That you should not get the newest Covid booster? Have you ever been vaccinated? Calling me a jerk is rude. What's also rude? Refusing to get a vaccine that will protect you and others because you are afraid it will somehow hurt you.
- purpleblue 4y ago
  - inferiorhuman 4y ago
    Monica Gandhi who is a well known epidimeologist at UCSF and the furthest from an anti-vaxxer has said publicly she will not vax her kids with the COVID vaccine because there's no proof that it's needed for healthy children. No, she fucking didn't. Even the Daily Mail debunks your lies. Monica Gandhi, for all her faults, vaccinated her children. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10448853/Top-doctors-refuse-kids-shot-myocarditis-concerns.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10448853/Top-doctor... Both Gandhi and Offit, who have advocated for the vaccine and gotten themselves and their children vaccinated, claimed the CDC was premature in advising teens to get a COVID booster shot on January 5, with Gandhi saying, 'I am not giving my 12 and 14-year-old boys boosters.' Or as she wrote for the SF Chronicle: There should be no argument over whether vaccinating children against COVID is necessary; instead, our focus should be on the best way to do it. https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Yes-kids-5-to-11-need-a-COVID-shot-say-doctors-16583436.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Yes-ki...
    - purpleblue 4y ago
      I stand corrected. I got her not getting boosters for her boys as her not getting them vaccinated.

ckw 4y ago

UCSF professor Vinay Prasad making the case against the new boosters (and claiming that those responsible for these recommendations ‘exhibit a pattern of gross incompetence’): https://youtu.be/USKDUvKmN5Q https://youtu.be/USKDUvKmN5Q

inferiorhuman 4y ago
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be Vinay Prasad. Regardless of where he works he's still compared mask and vaccine mandates to the Third Reich. Most public health officials have a much lower tolerance for death or lasting injury than Prasad does. Even amongst laypeople Prasad's tolerance for someone elsedying is much higher than that of those other people. A pattern of gross incompetence is the kind of thing you'd typically only level at people trying to Godwin their way out of scientific discourse.
- ckw 4y ago
  This is pure ad hominem. Are his claims false? Is his reasoning unsound?
  - inferiorhuman 4y ago
    > Are his claims false? Yes
    - ckw 4y ago
      So engage with those. How are those reading this thread edified by you simply claiming they are false, but presenting no evidence?
      - inferiorhuman 4y ago
        By virtue of the fact that neither myself nor that guy live in Nazi Germany is prima facie evidence that he's not worth taking seriously. If you shit your pants and then proceed to smear it all over yourself and then the ceiling while humming the Bonanza theme song don't be surprised when people don't engage you. If you want an earnest discussion find someone making an earnest argument.