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U.S. plans to begin administering Covid-19 booster shots in September

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Re: U.S. plans to begin administering Covid-19 booster shots in September

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Okay, so if the binary thinking is wrong, why stop at three? Why stop at all? Does the science say we just blast our bodies with as much mRNA as we can get away with?

Assuming you are asking earnestly, because of diminishing returns. Pfizer has been found to be 90 something percent effective at 2 months. They've noticed it seems to lose about 3% effectiveness per month, leaving you at 70-something percent after 8 months. That's with the data we have today, it could be much higher or lower as more data is collected. To preemptively answer your question - yes, I could see needing to…

"Assuming you are asking earnestly, because of diminishing returns."

The economics of this are showing increasing returns to the worldwide medical cartels, so this looks like it will continue indefinitely. With broad immunity to product safety laws, why not lay in another billion or two as profit? The C-level company staff will gleefully take home fat bonus checks.

Re: U.S. plans to begin administering Covid-19 booster shots in September

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Who said you are going to lose your job? You seem to accept that as a fact, but I’m not sure where you are getting confirmation of this. Are you just assuming that all employers will require you to get a booster shot in the future, even though as of now most employers do not require you to get even a single COVID shot?

My employer has a mandate so it looks like I'm going to be fired in October. I didn't take the vaccine and won't be taking it.

I really cannot overstate how stupid it would be to lose your job over this. What, exactly, do you think the vaccine is going to do to you?
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