New Covid Shots Recommended for Americans 6 Months and Older This Fall

People become statisticians and scientists overnight when it comes to COVID-19 Vaccines.

The science is very simple, get the shot and you reduce the likelihood of hospitalization or death. It's more effective for those with co-morbidities or those older in the age brackets.

I am not sure why this was politicized to death the way it has been. The mandates early on were to curb the hospitalizations / deaths that was occurring. Really the mandate should have been for people with co-morbidities or in the upper age bracket but you know what, people are stupid and everyone thinks they're healthy, so instead of being nuanced they applied it to everyone.

In Germany, no one will going to get a covid vaccination again. This topic was dealth with so controversially, so polarisingly, that it divides the nation. One group even made a political program with being anti-covid measures, pretending there are dark forces limiting personal freedom etc.

How‘s the situation in the US?

I got 3 shots. And had severe complications after the third shot. So I don’t think I am going to have one again.

My personal theory is what I call Low Dose, Frequent Exposure https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/index.php/Low_Dose,_Frequent_E...

I’m not against the vaccine. I just don’t think I need it. Sure, some people talk about chronic inflammation. But I think I trust my generally normative immune system to handle this.

Nebula says that my genome is at the 99th percentile for serious illness and hospitalization with COVID-19 so this will be fun to see. But I’m going to stick to it.

This is basically the new flu shot and we'll get the usual litany of anecdotal reports that someone still got the flu/covid, but statistically these shots reduce the number of infections and the severity of infections with few side effects, so I'll keep getting them.

It's basically the new flu shot, and probably will be for a very long time yet. I'm not so concerned about that but I do wonder when the next disease (bird flu?) will come along and we'll get another annual shot... and another...

Most of Europe (i.e. the parts of Europe that I know) acknowledged that "mistakes were made", and moved on. Nobody really expected an apology from officials for the shit-show, because everybody understood that they were doing the best they could given their situation, and it would be political suicide to admit they acted in error.

What's weird about the U.S.A. though, is that it's still a thing _now_?

I wonder scientifically what goes into "recommendation" nowadays, amid all the bickering and turmoil, and i no longer feel I know, and i believe personally in vaccines, but not in profiteering, which never seemed a discussed concern till the last few years.

how can an observer detect if profiteering is influencing recommendation?

Part of the problem is to just group all Covid-19 shots as if they were the same thing. They are very different technologies.

I got a Pfizer–BioNTech booster, and it was of course fine.

I don't want and would not get the Sinovac booster.

Let's assume for the sake of argument that these new shots will be perfectly safe and effective (won't catch it, won't spread it, won't have any side effects, etc).

Given current sentiment and uptake rates, how many people are actually going to get these (or make their 6 month old get them)? And how low does that number have to be before you are just training people to be comfortable ignoring your recommendations?

The disappointing thing that no one talks about is that all of the vaccines target the spike, which is the part of the virus that evolves most quickly (the spike is also an immunotoxin). Alternatively, vaccines could have targeted the nucleocapsid protein. This would have had the dual benefit of not being as immunogenic/immunotoxin and also likely being a one and done shot with long term effective immunity. Why do you think the folks at Big pharma decided to choose a vaccine against the spike protein? Can anyone say "recurring revenue?"

Turn this into a SARS/MERS - it would be highly profitable. I'm not an anti-vaxxer - I have all vaccines, and I made the mistake of getting the first Pfizer, which I regretted a lot after I damaged my health due to side effects that were downplayed and ignored by both Pfizer and CDC!

Geert Vanden Bossche [0] has been predicting a vaccine-induced massive die-off this summer!

We need antivirals, not vaccines! Just look at this [1] and shit in your pants!!!

[0]: https://x.com/GVDBossche

[1]: https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global/6m

attack!!!

near to a cinema next to you!!

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