Wait a second. Are you still getting Covid booster shots? Do you think they should still be given to all persons every six months? I don’t know of anyone who is still getting Covid boosters… whether they believed they worked or if they thought they were harmful.
Do you think the government should take that option away from people? Just because you (and your politically biased peer group) don't believe in seasonal vaccines does not mean that a large swath of the public that does should be stripped of coverage for these vaccines based on conspiracies.
My last Covid booster gave me a horrific autoimmune reaction knocking the crap out of me for a few months. No more for me till people start dropping like flies again.
Are you saying that they are taking boosters away completely or are you saying that they are no longer recommending that all people get one? I interpreted it as the latter (no longer recommending boosters for all). I think that, if people wish to get one, they should have the right to do that. I will not be one of them because the benefit for me no longer outweighs the potential risk (no matter how small or large it may be). If Covid makes a comeback or if my personal health situation were to change, then I would reassess my decision. But, I don't know of anyone recommending covid boosters right now for the average person. Is that happening in your hospital? If so, that is weird.
They should probably also get rid of laws requiring seatbelts and prohibiting alcohol right?
I believe in the ones that are good and work. I have a bandaid on my arm presently from the booster vaccine I received earlier today. It was not for covid.
I’m not aware that previous car accidents or seatbelt use makes one less vulnerable to future car accidents but do go on
I see. I guess we will see who really thinks it is life-saving if they have to give up their $12 Starbucks iced coffee for a couple of days to pay for a Covid booster out of pocket.
Not sure that has anything to do with strawman, but I understand that making that accusation is part of your standard debate process.
Why wouldn't it be the standard?
Sounds like you just interpret insurance companies asking you to pay for it as somehow limiting access to it. I disagree. If you want it, go get it. Pfizer will take your money. But our tax dollars don’t need to fund it. Next you’ll be asking us to buy you a new VCR because your old one broke. You deserve to watch your old movies, right? I don’t really think it’s our job to support your neuroses. Flu shot? Sure thing. Get one of those and charge it to the insurance company. Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis? Absolutely. But Covid booster? Nope. That time passed. Read a headline every once in a while.
Some of us work with the immune compromised, or might be immune compromised ourselves, or have immune compromised family members.
That’s why I said 99.99% and the “average Joe patient.”
Yep. That list is extensive. If a patient wants a booster, they will likely easily be able to get one. And it will most likely be at no cost to them.
The entire point of the annual vaccination efforts is to avoid the need for all that and allow you to move on with your life while reducing risk to yourself and society via herd immunity.
You give too much of a benefit of the doubt. This is simultaneously to kill the economic case for vaccine development going forward and ALSO to provide talking points for RFKs lawsuits. “See, this vaccine is unsafe. They never did placebo trials”.
Ahh. The old “gotcha” question. Very predictable.
Fauci and his ilk have done more harm to the vaccination status of the US citizens than anything else. Vaccines must be trusted and when medical leaders lie and erode trust, the natural effect will be vaccine hesitancy. Based on his actions and his meetings and emails, Fauci eroded the trust that the American people had in the entire enterprise.
Not anymore if you are MAGA.
Did you ever stop beating your wife? Yes or no? It’s an easy question?
What part do you disagree with? Do you find Fauci to be a trustworthy representative of our profession?Bro.
It’s a yes or no question…
Probably not true.
I think you need to lay off the maga juice dude.
Let’s revisit this in ten years. There are very few absolutes in medicine and science.
That’s a top-notch zinger. I’m stealing that one.
I answered that in the first sentence of post 13,589
You can add horrific prostatectomies for Gleason 6 to your list. I saw a patient as recent as 10 years ago in preop for a prostatectomy with biopsies positive for ONE PERCENT Gleason 6. To this day I have guilt that I didn't risk my job and say, please Sir fake some angina or something and get the flock out of here.
I'm curious, do you say people brains are broken if they weren't in favor of 25th amendmenting Resthome Joe? Or were wearing a mask outside in fresh air, sometimes even alone in a park? Or feel transitioned men competing against females is ok?
