My elderly parents live with me, and it’s an abomination that I might not be able to get a COVID booster shot because I’m middle aged and healthy. That’s one lost line of defense to protect them; my mother is on oxygen full time - once bout of COVID will kill her.
People “doing their own research” is how we got measles back in the US. I’m not a research scientist and so whatever “research” I do is nonsense.
Here’s my experience - I never got the flu shot until I started working for a company that required me get it or wear a mask at work. (This was nearly a decade before COVID.)
Before I got the flu shot, I would regularly get sick two or three times every winter. Once I started getting the flu shot, I tended to get sick once per winter.
One other anecdote, which is not data, but what I’ve personally observed, is that I was very careful before we had a COVID vaccine because my elderly parents live with me. Once there was a vaccine and I got it, I stopped wearing a mask and went about my business as usual. I didn’t get COVID once until 2024. The vaccine may or may not have made my illness milder; I got Paxlovid antiviral and basically was no sicker than a cold within 36 hours, so there’s no real way to separate the two.
Meanwhile, I have a lot of friends who got COVID before the vaccine, and said “natural immunity is better,” and so didn’t get vaccinated. Nearly all of them have had COVID two or more additional times since.
So I could post my anecdotes online, people could “do their own research,” find my anecdotes, and come to the opposite conclusion as you.
100%
Most recently the forever boosters. All conveniently forgotten now; see if you find one colleague advocating a 7th booster these days
My elderly parents live with me, and it’s an abomination that I might not be able to get a COVID booster shot because I’m middle aged and healthy. That’s one lost line of defense to protect them; my mother is on oxygen full time - once bout of COVID will kill her.
Yah. No.
Do some reading. covid shots are a sham.
The information is out there. Spend 10 minutes doing your own research.
People “doing their own research” is how we got measles back in the US. I’m not a research scientist and so whatever “research” I do is nonsense.
Here’s my experience - I never got the flu shot until I started working for a company that required me get it or wear a mask at work. (This was nearly a decade before COVID.)
Before I got the flu shot, I would regularly get sick two or three times every winter. Once I started getting the flu shot, I tended to get sick once per winter.
One other anecdote, which is not data, but what I’ve personally observed, is that I was very careful before we had a COVID vaccine because my elderly parents live with me. Once there was a vaccine and I got it, I stopped wearing a mask and went about my business as usual. I didn’t get COVID once until 2024. The vaccine may or may not have made my illness milder; I got Paxlovid antiviral and basically was no sicker than a cold within 36 hours, so there’s no real way to separate the two.
Meanwhile, I have a lot of friends who got COVID before the vaccine, and said “natural immunity is better,” and so didn’t get vaccinated. Nearly all of them have had COVID two or more additional times since.
So I could post my anecdotes online, people could “do their own research,” find my anecdotes, and come to the opposite conclusion as you.
And they, like you, would be wrong.
You people say to trust the science. So trust the science.