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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My post is above.   [b]Think of us people on cancer drugs that lower our immunity![/b]  If the fever is over 100.5 we’re supposed to call the doctor and it can mean ending up in the hospital in an isolation room.  I had 103 fever with Covid and my lungs hurt so bad with the coughing.  I didn’t call because at that point I didn’t think they could do anything.  It would be more preventative than anything.   [/quote]

Then you by all means should be getting every booster.  My kids not getting one has absolutely no impact on you. Sure it might lessen their symptoms (which were a minor cold btw) if they get it.

How is it 2024 and people still don't know this?  [/quote]

Everyone with a low immunity should get the vaccine and hopefully the vaccination will work.  It doesn’t always.  The comment is about adults who should be getting vaccinated and don’t.  Coughing and sniveling on public transportation, you can’t get up land move on planes.  No thought to anyone but themselves.   [/quote]

Are you still under the impression that an annual booster prevents infection in anyone? It's not a matter of the vaccine sometimes working and sometimes not, and that people should just get it on the off-chance that it "works" and they might protect someone. That's not the situation with this vaccine, and it's not how decisions about medical interventions should be made, because you always have to balance risks vs. benefits.

It is well established that at best, the vaccine raises your antibody titer for a few weeks or months, which will briefly lower your risk of infection. The real purpose of the vaccine has always been to lessen disease severity, but now that everyone has some form of immunity, we don't have evidence that annual boosters provide *further* benefits in this direction, because cellular immunity doesn't wane like antibodies.

The reality is that booster or not, you are going to catch Covid (again) at some point. There is no evidence boosted people (or for that matter those who mask in "high risk" situations) catch it less often than others. There also is no evidence that boosted people are less likely to transmit the virus to others. I know this goes against the 2021 messaging which I also believed, but it is now widely accepted (certainly outside the US) that the public health benefit from the vaccine is close to zero.

So please stop with the selfishness rants. Others getting boosted has no impact on your individual risk of getting infected. Going out in public when you are actively sick with any virus is a different matter, but sometimes people have no choice. Fortunately, most of the time, most people have immunity against most circulating respiratory viruses, including Covid. That's why you don't see "superspreader" events anymore. Most people don't get sick every time someone coughs next to them.[/quote]

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