Will you take the "third shot" or "booster" when you're eligible?

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Will you get a "third shot" or "booster"?

Poll closed Nov 25, 2021.
  1. Yes, I will get a third shot.

    61.2%
  2. No, I will wait to see what happens during winter.

    16.3%
  3. No... I never even got vaxxed before, and won't now!

    18.4%
  4. Yes, but I will wait a few more months.

    4.1%
  1. Junkieturtle

    Junkieturtle Well-Known Member Donor

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    Lets be glad that Trump didn't have a more contagious variant to deal with considering his attitude and general "I-don't-care" approach to all things COVID last year.
     
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    https://bestlifeonline.com/cdc-vaccine-side-effects-news/

    If you haven't get that checked out. Could be a sign of a blood clot apparently. Which is treatable.
     
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    Vaccines cause the immune system to develop antibodies for an infection it hasn't yet encountered. The biotech vaccines do that.
     
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    Well except for the vaccinated catching and dying of Covid you might have something.
     
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    I'll get the booster when my doctor says I should if he ever says I should.
     
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    I chose #3 as it was the closest. I did get the tetanus vaccine at some point, but no one was forcing me to. When the covid vaccine has as much efficacy behind it as the tetanus vaccine, and folks stop trying to coerce/compel compliance, I'll give it another look.
     
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    That's weird because I thought he called a national emergency, worked to get ventilators, and got naval ships at coastlines to provide more space to hospitals, started Warp Speed.... Oh you mean he didn't take it so far as to act irrationally afraid or impead on peoples freedoms like the tyrant Joe Biden.
     
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    Like that.
     
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    Your poll did not account for me. I've gotten my vaccination. I will not get the booster. I'm not taking a "wait and see" approach. So that option is not for me. Your other "no" is one where the person did not get vaccinated at all.

    I won't get it for two reasons. Main one is I'm a shut in. Partially agoraphobic. So me being around people other than my family is not a daily occurrence. At best its a weekly occurrence. It would be monthly if I could get away with it. So the chances of me getting covid is smaller than the average human.

    Second reason is the government and leftists pissed me off with them trying to get the vaccine mandated. I tend to flip people the bird when they try to order me around. Even if they're trying to do it indirectly.
     
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    Sounds like COVID. Did you test?
     
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    May want to research L-Lysine.
     
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    It would be a second shot in my case, seeing as how I got the single-dose J&J, but I'll be happy to get a booster if and when it is recommended based on testing and all that.
     
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    No.
     
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    Vaccinated are dying not because the vaccines don't work. They are dying because we have a new strain of the virus that is resistant to them. The death rate among vaccinated individuals is vanishingly rare. If you are looking for a 100% effectiveness of the vaccines or anything else, you won't find it. Nothing in life is risk free. The risk numbers aren't on your side. I understand vaccine hesitancy. My wife is an anti-vaxxer. I have no problem with that. My problem is with misinformation.
     
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    He didn't do any of those things, his administration did. His role as president isn't going to involve actually doing work. That's why he has an administration. His role is about messaging, tone, and motivation. It's no different for Biden. Nor does Trump's almost complete failure at the roles of his job last year mean that Biden is doing a stellar job this year either.

    Guess what? They both suck! Biden's only improvement is that he actually takes it seriously in tone. His vaccine mandate for businesses will save lives without question, but it will come at a cost in other areas. Right now is not really the time to be driving the vaccination wedge even further between Americans. Since the vaccine doesn't grant immunity or prevent people from being contagious, the best thing to do is just let the folks with whatever nonsense hangups they have about taking it risk their lives for no reason or because of political nonsense, with the exception of those who genuinely can't take it since they don't have a choice. Turning this into a war within businesses will hurt, especially in sectors like health care as they lose workers.
     
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    A number of people hate Trump, and that is their right... I voted for him twice although he was by no means an "ideal" leader.

    But, when Trump's critics spew hatred at him in piled-on excess, and, for the wrong reasons, they only make themselves look like frothing morons.
     
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    AKA, the vaccine doesn’t work.
     
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    It works fine, just not the way you want. It develops antibodies. Those antibodies are pretty good against delta but not as good as they were against alpha. Almost no vaccinated delta strain infectees are hospitalized and/or killed. The same was true befor delta arrived. You can't have zero risk. You have to consider the odds. I'm all for you resisting the vaccine. I'm not ok with your misinformation.
     
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    The insanity is that those unvaccinated but have antibodies from catching Covid are required to get vaxxed in places like hospitals when Israel shows that their resistance is 7 times greater than getting the vaccine. The vaccine does not produce immunity memory.
     
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    Yesterday, our Colorado Gov. Polis gave an update on the COVID situation. In a nutshell: today, ~850 people are in Colorado hospitals diagnosed with COVID or a 'variant'. Of those, ~150 are people who were previously vaccinated. Thus, in 'round numbers', it appears that approximately 17% of people hospitalized in Colorado for COVID had already had some kind of vaccine... we don't know which one, or with how many 'shots'.

    Most of the people dying of the COVID-related disease(s) in Colorado are in their 70's and 80's. If you're over 65, you can walk into just about any well-known pharmacy and get the COVID 'booster', as long as it's been around six months since your last COVID 'jab'.... If you're over 65 and haven't had any vaccination at all, you must have some kind of 'death-wish', and should probably make your next medically-related appointment with a psychiatrist.

    Hint: You wanted to live long enough to get all your fugging money BACK out of what you were forced to pay into Social Security and Medicare all your working life... right? Well, you won't do that if you're DEAD.... :skull:
     
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    Count me as “I’m not sure”.

    Most of those getting seriously ill in California are third worlders and the people who didn’t get their shots at all, or “just didn’t get around to it.”

    Secondly, there is too much politics I question the government’s motives.

    I’m going to check with my doctor.
     
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    That's a huge generalization. Reading this post and other posts of yours establishing that you won't take the vaccine because of this reaction to the stress test drug, one sees how misguided your position is. Having had an adverse reaction to one drug, doesn't necessarily mean you'll have an adverse reaction to any other drug or vaccine unless the composition of the drugs or vaccines are very similar to the one you've already experienced a reaction from. And no, there are adverse reactions that can indeed lead to permanent damage, but there also many others that are transient and don't leave anything behind them.

    Yes, it's well-known that stress test drugs can cause severe reactions:

    https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safe...th-cardiac-nuclear-stress-test-drugs-lexiscan

    But pray tell, what in the hell does this have to do with Covid-19 vaccines???

    So you take your anecdotal case of ONE, and you apply it widely to pretty much the entirety of Medicine? Great. [Insert rolling eyes here]

    This would be akin to saying:

    "Gee, I had an allergic reaction to Tylenol. That means that if I acquire for example life-threatening extreme hypertension, I won't take any medication for it because whoa, if I had a reaction to Tylenol, it certainly means I'll have a reaction to the blood pressure medications!!!"

    Yeah, buddy, keep thinking like this, and you'll collect the Darwin Award.
     
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    MY board certified cardiologist AND equally certified internist have recently BOTH agreed I am at risk by taking the "vaccines", so I won't be taking them, IF THAT'S OK WITH YOU, BUDDY!
     
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