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It Will Make Scientific Sense to Offer Booster After Three Months

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Re: It Will Make Scientific Sense to Offer Booster After Three Months

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Post by dkdk8283 »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #8

This is in agreement with what my personal doctor told me: the vaccines work great for two months, lots of protection. He said, depending on individual circumstances, protection decreases rapidly after that. His concern is people thinking that they can stop being careful after getting a vaccination. I just finished a company offsite and they tested everyone every morning and sent out test kits to protest for a few da…

That sounds horrific, I would much rather opt out of that event instead of going through that.

I refuse to live in fear.

Re: It Will Make Scientific Sense to Offer Booster After Three Months

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Post by dkdk8283 »

shimonabi wrote: post #7

I got vaccinated the first day I could and got the 3rd dose last week. My mother got the 3rd dose a few weeks before me and on the 3rd day one of her lower-legs went numb. She had some therapy in the hospital and is OK now, but I'm afraid how she could react to a possible future vaccination. I'm not even sure the vaccination was the cause. I have many antivaxx coworkers and I would never mention something like that i…

My friends wife lost an eye due to complications from a booster.

The vaccine has real side effects, the faster we can have a civic conversation about it the better off we all are.

I have severe cardiovascular problems and cannot get the vaccine. I’m judged and called an antivaxxer all the time. It’s not us vs them, we’re all in it together.

Being open and honest is always the best path. Especially when you disagree.

Re: It Will Make Scientific Sense to Offer Booster After Three Months

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Post by jsnell »

dkdk8283 wrote: post #11
mark_l_watson wrote: post #8

This is in agreement with what my personal doctor told me: the vaccines work great for two months, lots of protection. He said, depending on individual circumstances, protection decreases rapidly after that. His concern is people thinking that they can stop being careful after getting a vaccination. I just finished a company offsite and they tested everyone every morning and sent out test kits to protest for a few da…

That sounds horrific, I would much rather opt out of that event instead of going through that. I refuse to live in fear.

I assume you also don't wear a seatbelt?

Re: It Will Make Scientific Sense to Offer Booster After Three Months

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Post by xboxnolifes »

jsnell wrote: post #13
dkdk8283 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds horrific, I would much rather opt out of that event instead of going through that. I refuse to live in fear.

I assume you also don't wear a seatbelt?

Please spell out the parallels. I am lost.

Re: It Will Make Scientific Sense to Offer Booster After Three Months

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Post by findalex »

ipspam wrote: post #10

Wow! I miss a free and fair press that asks relevant questions. This exchange would NEVER happen in North America: DER SPIEGEL: Is it also possible that the next variant will already be here before you even start production? Şahin: I've been thinking hard over the past few days about why we're actually seeing a variant like Omicron right now, what caused it. In doing so, I remembered being concerned about one thing e…

> It certainly could happen more often.... We would then be constantly facing a new pathogen.

If? Isn't this how contagious respiratory diseases always work?

Re: It Will Make Scientific Sense to Offer Booster After Three Months

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Post by ziddoap »

disambiguation wrote: post #9
V__ wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is such a dumb whataboutism point. Either discredit the data or the argument.

No this isn't whataboutism. My point is simply that "scientific consensus" has lost some of its brand value. Further, I'm not an "expert" so even if I did challenge the data or argument, I would be dismissed for being unqualified.

> "Here is the scientific consensus."

>> "What about sugar."

Is the definition of whataboutism.

>Further, I'm not an "expert" so even if I did challenge the data or argument, I would be dismissed for being unqualified.

Not always true. You just need to provide data (or identify an error in their data/methodology/etc.) that is convincing enough to overcome the difference in weight afforded to an expert opinion and non-expert opinion.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This is not to say that you are wrong, you very well could be correct, but the onus is on you to prove why your non-expert opinion should be weighted higher than hundreds of experts from various countries.

Re: It Will Make Scientific Sense to Offer Booster After Three Months

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Post by cblconfederate »

ipspam wrote: post #10

Wow! I miss a free and fair press that asks relevant questions. This exchange would NEVER happen in North America: DER SPIEGEL: Is it also possible that the next variant will already be here before you even start production? Şahin: I've been thinking hard over the past few days about why we're actually seeing a variant like Omicron right now, what caused it. In doing so, I remembered being concerned about one thing e…

Can't we extrapolate the rate of new strains from the existing cold coronaviruses which circulated widely?
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