Compared to lockdowns or even just mask mandates, both booster schedules seem like a pretty minor inconvenience given the pandemic-halting benefits.
If I'm going to be forced to keep current on a shot if I want to be employed or enter buildings, it should come with some form of justification that is periodically evaluated. If it doesn't work, the inconvenience should not exist. If the virus mutates and risk falls below some standard, the inconvenience should not exist.
I have been taking off my shoes for 20 years at the airport. I understand that you can never eliminate the possibility of someone putting a bomb in their shoe, so we just have to do this forever. But viruses change, and I'd at least like someone to acknowledge there should be a goal that I won't be forced to do this also in 20 years.
Many of us aren't done (and many others were done long before the vaccine came out), but we're not the subjects of this article.
Currently we have the highest case numbers ever. How can you type this with a straight face?
I'm OK with taking a vaccine for my own benefit, when I want. But don't pretend the vaccines have halted the pandemic.
The mostly part is that I'm open to get a vaccine now and then. The evidence shows they do seem to prevent serious complications when you do catch Covid. I'm not down with all the bullshit restrictions and government overreach that obviously isn't effective at anything except destroying the economy.
I'm not "antivax". I'm anti-inefficient-vaxes-based-on-the-strain-from-2-years-ago
And no boosters are not free. I can't wrap my head around how many people believe that boosters are free. No they are not free. If you are not paying for it directly, the government is paying for it with taxpayer money. And tax money doesn't fall from the sky. It comes out of your wallet.
Or the government can print the money and risk higher inflation, which is just an indirect tax on your money.