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Why fuck the covid one but not the others?
@Walterodim has saved me the trouble
Unless you're old/sick, or working with the old/sick, the benefits are largely negligible at this point.
I have had 2 normal shots and 3 boosters, and have caught COVID 4 times confirmed and once suspected (I couldn't be arsed to get tested and I wasn't employed where I could use it for sick leave).
Also, if someone hasn't had it yet, I don't care to tell them again.
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It's a fairly ineffective vaccine and the eventual outcomes were such that if I had gotten those in a controlled animal-trial, I would have discarded it as ineffective and filed the results away in a cabinet. Despite the later claims that vaccines aren't intended to prevent infection and transmission, they actually are intended to prevent infection and transmission; failing to do so is an incredibly disappointing result. There are good reasons to believe that there was good-faith belief that it would be more effective than it wound up being, but it really isn't a very good vaccine.
Perhaps more importantly to the conversation, it's also the most polarizing one and people could have good reasons for skipping it while not having a broadly anti-vaccine stance.
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