I'm looking into it now and found this helpful:
https://dearpandemic.org/should-i-get-boosted-now-or-wait/

I wouldn't have done it in the first weeks of availability since I'm not as high risk as some but now that supply won't be a problem for those who need it, it seems reasonable to get it. With summer travel and activities, seems smart to get the extra protection now.

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Anonymous wrote:How old are you? My answer entirely depends on age.

43.

I'm not trying to be cocky. I work with kids 5 days a week, who are germy, maskless, and get right in your face. I go to the gym several days a week, have traveled, eat indoors, am social, and still no covid. It's just my reality. I do however, have a hard reaction to the shots.

Would you get a 2nd booster if you're due?

As someone who is compromised and can't do all this-this sounds crazy to me. You either have amazing luck or an aamzing immune system or are one of the people who got covid and had no symptoms and never knew/and or could have passed it on to someone like me.

Them doing a booster will not help you as it is not stopping transmission. I’ve basically been home for the past two years as is my family and rarely seeing anyone. No one cares about anyone but themselves so you have to protect yourself. We live in a selfish society who is raising the next generation of selfish kids. My kid does one activity unmasked as they cannot mask and I suspect they brought it home but home test was negative. I was sick for over a month.

I agree with pp that you are the selfish one. If is extremely selfish of you to expect everyone to put their lives on hold or decrease their quality of life, because of your health issues. I'm sorry for your predicament, but it's entirely on you and your family.

I expect to be decent human beings and take basic precautions. If you were a decent person and could take even basic precautions to stop the spread, it would increase others quality of life. But, clearly we see who you are.

You're hopelessly naive. The world you're hoping for isn't coming back, masks or no masks.

Because people like you have accepted this utter selfishness as the new normal, that's why, people like you.

Which is almost everyone.
-dp

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Anonymous wrote:You’re not eligible so why are you thinking about this.

You don’t think people who aren’t eligible are getting it? Oh, you sweet summer child.

It’s not so easy to get a second booster if you’re not eligible.

Sign up online. Click the button that attests that you qualify. Make an appt at a non-busy time. Be firm and repeat “I qualify and I’m not required to share the specifics of my medical history” if a power tripping pharmacist tries to give you any crap. If you have to, leave and do the same with a different pharmacy or grocery pharmacy chain until you succeed.

100% success rate for the four people under 50 who don’t “meet the criteria” in my friend group. Only one had to go to more than one pharmacy.

Or you could just…wait until you’re eligible? It will likely happen soon, probably by fall.

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Anonymous wrote:How old are you? My answer entirely depends on age.

43.

I'm not trying to be cocky. I work with kids 5 days a week, who are germy, maskless, and get right in your face. I go to the gym several days a week, have traveled, eat indoors, am social, and still no covid. It's just my reality. I do however, have a hard reaction to the shots.

Would you get a 2nd booster if you're due?

As someone who is compromised and can't do all this-this sounds crazy to me. You either have amazing luck or an aamzing immune system or are one of the people who got covid and had no symptoms and never knew/and or could have passed it on to someone like me.

Them doing a booster will not help you as it is not stopping transmission. I’ve basically been home for the past two years as is my family and rarely seeing anyone. No one cares about anyone but themselves so you have to protect yourself. We live in a selfish society who is raising the next generation of selfish kids. My kid does one activity unmasked as they cannot mask and I suspect they brought it home but home test was negative. I was sick for over a month.

I agree with pp that you are the selfish one. If is extremely selfish of you to expect everyone to put their lives on hold or decrease their quality of life, because of your health issues. I'm sorry for your predicament, but it's entirely on you and your family.

I expect to be decent human beings and take basic precautions. If you were a decent person and could take even basic precautions to stop the spread, it would increase others quality of life. But, clearly we see who you are.

You're hopelessly naive. The world you're hoping for isn't coming back, masks or no masks.

Because people like you have accepted this utter selfishness as the new normal, that's why, people like you.

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Anonymous wrote:How old are you? My answer entirely depends on age.

43.

I'm not trying to be cocky. I work with kids 5 days a week, who are germy, maskless, and get right in your face. I go to the gym several days a week, have traveled, eat indoors, am social, and still no covid. It's just my reality. I do however, have a hard reaction to the shots.

Would you get a 2nd booster if you're due?

As someone who is compromised and can't do all this-this sounds crazy to me. You either have amazing luck or an aamzing immune system or are one of the people who got covid and had no symptoms and never knew/and or could have passed it on to someone like me.

Them doing a booster will not help you as it is not stopping transmission. I’ve basically been home for the past two years as is my family and rarely seeing anyone. No one cares about anyone but themselves so you have to protect yourself. We live in a selfish society who is raising the next generation of selfish kids. My kid does one activity unmasked as they cannot mask and I suspect they brought it home but home test was negative. I was sick for over a month.

I agree with pp that you are the selfish one. If is extremely selfish of you to expect everyone to put their lives on hold or decrease their quality of life, because of your health issues. I'm sorry for your predicament, but it's entirely on you and your family.

WHO is asking you to put your life on hold? Putting a mask on to go to a store is very little to ask for your fellow HUMAN BEINGS that a burden and stressed with LIFE LONG DISEASE AND ILLNESSES this is the LEAST YOU could do to help others. YOU are a very discusting and selfish person if you think your life is worth more because you are born blessed healthy than those who are not. Pray to God you never get ill and know what it is to live on this side of the fence for even a slip second.

NP. You are vastly overestimating how much others wearing a mask at the store does to protect you. It's really not worth fighting about. Masks are a small burden, but they are still a burden, and most people don't want to wear them indefinitely. Just put on your N95 when you go out and stop trying to shame people into permanently adopting a novel behavior that really doesn't do anything to make you safer.

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Anonymous wrote:How old are you? My answer entirely depends on age.

43.

I'm not trying to be cocky. I work with kids 5 days a week, who are germy, maskless, and get right in your face. I go to the gym several days a week, have traveled, eat indoors, am social, and still no covid. It's just my reality. I do however, have a hard reaction to the shots.

Would you get a 2nd booster if you're due?

As someone who is compromised and can't do all this-this sounds crazy to me. You either have amazing luck or an aamzing immune system or are one of the people who got covid and had no symptoms and never knew/and or could have passed it on to someone like me.

Them doing a booster will not help you as it is not stopping transmission. I’ve basically been home for the past two years as is my family and rarely seeing anyone. No one cares about anyone but themselves so you have to protect yourself. We live in a selfish society who is raising the next generation of selfish kids. My kid does one activity unmasked as they cannot mask and I suspect they brought it home but home test was negative. I was sick for over a month.

I agree with pp that you are the selfish one. If is extremely selfish of you to expect everyone to put their lives on hold or decrease their quality of life, because of your health issues. I'm sorry for your predicament, but it's entirely on you and your family.

I expect to be decent human beings and take basic precautions. If you were a decent person and could take even basic precautions to stop the spread, it would increase others quality of life. But, clearly we see who you are.

Very well said. It's worse is THEY don't know who they are yet. I expect a few life lessons might be headed their way eventually. I hope it will be pretty eye opening for them.

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Anonymous wrote:How old are you? My answer entirely depends on age.

43.

I'm not trying to be cocky. I work with kids 5 days a week, who are germy, maskless, and get right in your face. I go to the gym several days a week, have traveled, eat indoors, am social, and still no covid. It's just my reality. I do however, have a hard reaction to the shots.

Would you get a 2nd booster if you're due?

As someone who is compromised and can't do all this-this sounds crazy to me. You either have amazing luck or an aamzing immune system or are one of the people who got covid and had no symptoms and never knew/and or could have passed it on to someone like me.

Do you live under a rock? Seriously. Vaccines prevent serious illness not transmission. How do you not know this?? The only vaccine that matters is yours if you truly are iimmunocompromised.

Wow, your reading comprehension is terrible!!!! You totally missed it! WOOOSH!

I had Covid in May, otherwise I would be thinking about it, especially if I had a special event coming up. My mother got her's right before a trip to New York we took, I got covid and she didn't - seems like she got it in the perfect window. I have not had bad reactions to the shot so far.

It seems like i should have pretty good immunity for about 90 days after my infection from what I read, and we just had a wave where I live (in Canada), and cases are trending down - I'll see where we are at in August and if a new variant booster is available I'll definitely get that. If it's still a few months out I will probably get a second Pfizer booster.

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Anonymous wrote:How old are you? My answer entirely depends on age.

43.

I'm not trying to be cocky. I work with kids 5 days a week, who are germy, maskless, and get right in your face. I go to the gym several days a week, have traveled, eat indoors, am social, and still no covid. It's just my reality. I do however, have a hard reaction to the shots.

Would you get a 2nd booster if you're due?

As someone who is compromised and can't do all this-this sounds crazy to me. You either have amazing luck or an aamzing immune system or are one of the people who got covid and had no symptoms and never knew/and or could have passed it on to someone like me.

Them doing a booster will not help you as it is not stopping transmission. I’ve basically been home for the past two years as is my family and rarely seeing anyone. No one cares about anyone but themselves so you have to protect yourself. We live in a selfish society who is raising the next generation of selfish kids. My kid does one activity unmasked as they cannot mask and I suspect they brought it home but home test was negative. I was sick for over a month.

I agree with pp that you are the selfish one. If is extremely selfish of you to expect everyone to put their lives on hold or decrease their quality of life, because of your health issues. I'm sorry for your predicament, but it's entirely on you and your family.

WHO is asking you to put your life on hold? Putting a mask on to go to a store is very little to ask for your fellow HUMAN BEINGS that a burden and stressed with LIFE LONG DISEASE AND ILLNESSES this is the LEAST YOU could do to help others. YOU are a very discusting and selfish person if you think your life is worth more because you are born blessed healthy than those who are not. Pray to God you never get ill and know what it is to live on this side of the fence for even a slip second.

No, we have omicron now, which I’ve had plus a regular booster. Why would I get an alpha booster?

Anonymous wrote:To me it makes no sense to continually boost with a vaccine against an old strain. We don’t do that for flu— we get a new vaccine each year that matches the circulating strains. The data on the first booster showed protection that waned pretty quickly, and Im guessing it’s the same for this one. Seems to be delaying the inevitable, honestly. I personally would not bother unless I were older or had health conditions.

It makes sense if you have things coming that you don't want to miss because you get Covid. The booster significantly decreases your chance of getting symptomatic disease for at least 8 weeks.

I’m similar To OP. Haven’t worn a mask in a year and around lots of maskless folks, travel, eat indoors and generally living like normal. I avoided COVID until last week when I felt feverish and tested positive. Basically felt like mild allergies after day 0. Very happy with my choice to keep living life as normal and skip second booster.

No. 38, healthy, had the first 3 shots.

I just had my kids in for the booster and asked about eligibility for adults. I was told it is over 50 or immune compromised/in close contact with immune compromised persons. BUT that they aren’t turning any adults away that would like it. I was offered it right then. This is at county health dept. I imagine everywhere is the same- just say you are close contact with someone immune compromised. They don’t care. With that said, I didn’t get it bc I really don’t feel the need. Maybe in the fall if I can get with flu shot.

I’m not eligible without lying (I’m 42.) Yes I know I could lie but it seems silly when eventually there will be an updated shot and the current shot doesn’t do much for the current strains.

Anonymous wrote:To me it makes no sense to continually boost with a vaccine against an old strain. We don’t do that for flu— we get a new vaccine each year that matches the circulating strains. The data on the first booster showed protection that waned pretty quickly, and Im guessing it’s the same for this one. Seems to be delaying the inevitable, honestly. I personally would not bother unless I were older or had health conditions.

This.