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As a Doctor, Mother and Head of CDC I Recommend You Get the Latest Covid Booster

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6 pointsbookofjoe16 comments

You just have to ask why this is even in the news with that headline.

What is being a mother and a doctor got anything to do with getting boosted?

Its like me saying, As a retired psychotherapist and father I whole heartedly recommend that every child needs to be psychoanalysed while they are still at school for the benefit of society. What a load of rubbish!

why not just say: The latest booster is available for the vulnerable and those wishing to get boosted.

I am sure there are plenty of people who want to rush out and get boosted, again and again and again and again and again. To what ends?

I am nearly 70 years old and I did not get any so called vaccine, though the covid vaccine is not actually a vaccine. My parents chose to have me vaccinated with the childhood vaccines that were at least put through years of research and had decent positive outcomes.

although looking at history, it was the introduction of clean water, sanitisation and sewerage networks that really had the biggest impact on human health, virus control and reduction in deaths.

I dont see this with the new (covid) flu vaccine

It’s pretty obvious that she’s trying to depoliticise the announcement.

In a way, it’s laudable, but it also smacks of naivety.

For it to work for me she’d have to acknowledge that it was politicised in the first place. She seems to have missed that, which seems either bad advice or perhaps more likely indicates that then CDC as an organisation isn’t yet ready to acknowledge the need to change.

I don't think so. i am a healthy person with no risk factors. try selling it to high risk groups.

I'm a healthy person with no risk factors, but I don't like being sick, or making my whole office sick, so I get the flu shot, and I'll get the COVID shot too.

I really don't get people that make a big deal about rejecting scientific advancements that protect their health. Like you're winning points for being contrarian or something. Do you wave a little flag that says "I win" when you get sick, or you get someone else sick? Does coughing in bed, a sore throat, or a raw drippy nose make you feel like you've got one over on The Man? Is a 3 day fever and chugging gatorade a ton of fun?

Did you arrive in a time machine from 2021? We all got covid shots and boosters and then covid. They didn't do anything and the only think people can come up with is to keep getting shots. It's not contrarian. Doing something over and over again that doesn't work is crazy. By this point everyone's had so much of this rammed down their throats that they can make a judgement themselves. Don't talk down to someone who has made a different judgement than you, that's supported by overwhelming evidence and experience.

Are you a medical scientist, and have you carried out studies on vaccine and mask effectivity?

Curious because you seem really confident so I guess maybe you're an expert in the area?

Don't need to be a chef to know the food stinks Don't need to be an expert, just need a working memory to see "14 days to slow the spread" or "if you get your 2 shots you have a 99% IMMUNITY from Covid" are bullshit.

> they didn’t do anything

Are you sure? Do you have any evidence that the vaccinated who caught COVID would not have had worse symptoms had they not been vaccinated?

I’m pretty sure all the stats at the time showed greater infection rates, greater hospitalisation rates, and greater mortality among the unvaccinated than the vaccinated.

EDIT: spelling

Cool cool flip the burden of proof

ja: lies, bloody lies, and statistics

I could give you facts and figures, official reports, studies, quotes from scientists and health experts, all of which resoundingly prove that taking the vaccine or booster will lead to better health outcomes, both directly (for you) and indirectly (for others). Plenty of articles published in the past few days outline all of the facts and figures and reasons why people should get a booster, who is helped and who is not. And of course just getting the booster doesn't negatively effect you and all insurance covers it, so the worst case is a wasted trip and 15 minutes.

But you don't want to hear the evidence. You just like this perception you have that the vaccines "don't do anything". So I won't try to correct that perception. But I will ridicule you, judge you, and shame you. Anti-vaxxers deserve contempt because they put people's lives at risk and make lifer harder for the rest of us. People who didn't get a flu shot were garbage people because they got more people sick with the flu, and having the flu sucks. People who don't get a covid shot are even more garbage because the mortality for covid is so much higher, there are uncertain long-term health effects even for healthy young people, and getting covid sucks. I'll talk down to anyone that screws other people over when they could easily avoid it, purely because they prefer to live in denial.

I hope you can get the help you need

looks like getting covid is the least of your problems

ever heard about natural immunity ?

or, do you take every new shot and antibiotic preventively, just because you have a "progressive" mind ?

funny how the collectivist thinking i have seen in communism is making big waves today: i do everything for my comrades, and i feel great.

take a booster for me dude.

The question is whether a booster today will prevent more damage than it causes. In 2023, when everyone has some form of immunity already and therefore very low chance of complications, the rate of adverse events doesn't have to be very high to make it so you are probably worse off by getting the booster than not. And on top of that, there are claims that adverse events are now known to be higher than previously thought.

Unfortunately it isn't as simple as more vaccine = more healthy.

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