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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I promise I'm not a paranoid still wearing masks, but can the folks saying no say why? At this point, why isn't it any different from getting the flu shot?[/quote]

We all got three covid shots in our family (my teen boys are 17 and 18 now). No more covid shots for us for a few small reasons that add up to a totally unnecessary shot in our opinion --
1. [b]We all caught covid (some of us have had it twice) in the 3 years since being vaccinated in 2021, and it was always just a very mild cold (sore throat, fever, slight cough for a day or two)[/b]
2. The covid shots made us feel blah and feverish for a day or two
3. No doctors (at our family practice, at the college health center, at the ER after a broken bone, at the ortho) are asking us if we have had a covid booster. They only ask if we have had our flu shot (which we all have).

So we always get a flu shot (and have for the past 20 years) in September. But we do not see any reason to get a covid shot. It is no longer a novel virus. Our bodies fight this coronavirus very easily, and getting a shot does not prevent us from spreading it to others.

So I hope that helps you understand our reasoning![/quote]

The mildness of your covid symptoms is an argument for the booster, not against.[/quote]

They never consider this when they make this argument.

Pre covid the exact same posts popped up every fall with people going on about not getting flu shots. The arguments are almost exactly the same with it boiling down to people who don't trust the gubment vs those who think they are just inherently more intelligent than everyone else. [/quote]

DP. But what if we haven’t been boosted since 2021 and we still have incredibly mild symptoms when we actually get Covid in 2024? What does that make a case for?[/quote]

+1  I'm the PP who had mild covid symptoms. I always get my flu shot.[/quote]

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