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Should you get a COVID booster? Here are 7 things to consider. (www.usatoday.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yes

What if I'm young and healthy? Do I really need another booster?

The short answer is: probably not, as long as you don't mind being sick for a week or two.

Never mind permanent neurological effects like long COVID, and increasing your risk of stroke or heart attack, even in young and healthy people (my 31-year-old, healthy boss had a stroke the first time they got COVID before getting vaccinated, no prior history of strokes), and depleting your immune system so that getting sick with anything in the next 2 years is more severe.

Many people get an annual flu shot, not to avoid death but because they don't want to miss work or life or be miserable for a few weeks. The same is true for COVID-19.

COVID is just like the flu, bro. Trust me, bro

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

They're just publishing advice that's the exact opposite of public health science. Apathy and zero guidance is already making it so that very few people are getting the boosters but they feel the need to actively make things worse.