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'It’s abundantly clear the majority of deaths continue to be among the unvaccinated (20% of Americans are still without even one dose).

Fortunately enough people are vaccinated and boosted such that our health system is no longer in danger of imminent collapse, but the unvaccinated remain a significant cost burden on all the rest of us.

“Still, experts stress that vaccination is the preferable route to immunity, given the risks of Covid, particularly in unvaccinated people.

Vaccines are effective if you’re up-to-date
Vaccines have saved countless lives. However, it’s increasingly clear that those over 50 must be up to date. Today, 1 in 2 deaths among those over 65 had one booster. (While ~5% of adults 65 and older remained unvaccinated, they comprised 22% of deaths—a disproportional amount.) Given that only 29% of older adults have their Fall booster means we have a lot of work to do. (written Nov. 18, 2022 )

I can't see extending amnesty to people whose stated position was basically "I have no sympathy for the unvaccinated. Let them lose their jobs, their health care and their lives if they won't follow the rules.".

For the month of March [2022], “unvaccinated people 12 years and older had 17 times the rate of COVID-associated deaths, compared to people vaccinated with a primary series and a booster dose,” says Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service commander Heather Scobie, deputy team lead for surveillance and analytics at the CDC’s Epidemiology Task Force.* “Unvaccinated people had eight times the rate of death as compared to people who only had a primary series,” suggesting that boosters increase the level of protection.

With numbers like that, you'd have to be a flat earther like Kyrie Irving not to get your shots.


https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... ed-people/ (August, 2022 )

SCLaxAttack wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 1:58 pm I'm going to discuss this with my doctor at my annual physical next month because ten days after receiving my most recent booster last November I got binocular double vision that lasted about a month. While my ophthalmologist says it's possible and research isn't conclusive, I believe it was a side effect of the booster as I'd never before had double vision. (See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9503164/)

If my doctor says I'm crazy and I should take it, I'll get the Moderna rather than the Pfizer shot as that last booster was Pfizer and I'd never had that reaction with Moderna's.

And yes, fatty, I did get COVID (last August) after being vaccinated and boostered, but I survived and was over being sick in only around five days.

RedFromMI wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 8:08 pm Wife and I scheduled tomorrow afternoon for flu shots and new version Covid vaccine.