(January 7, 2022 at 5:00 am)Rev. Rye Wrote:
Vaccines won't totally put an end to COVID, but they will, especially if you're boosted, reduce the severity of the symptoms. And while the symptoms are less severe, vaccine or no, there's also the fact that Omicron is a Hell of a lot easier to spread. So, odds are, it'll take far fewer virions to transmit it to anybody. Therefore, you could more easily transmit it to your mother, and it's more likely that she might end up drawing the short end of the stick and get more severe symptoms, especially if she's elderly, and especially if she has fewer vaccinations. And even if it's going to end up becoming endemic, that doesn't mean we should stop bothering to take precautions.
Also, with breakthrough cases becoming more and more prominent, especially as new variants come into being, how sure are we that if you get it now, you'll never have to deal with it again?
Sure, I may get it again in the future, but I'll take that chance with a 99.9 % chance of survival, and I've had two shots plus the infection, so I'll be safe for a good while. I'm not taking a new shot every 3 months for years to come. That's not what I signed up for when I took the initial shots. My mother only really has headaches from it. Minor symptoms. You still think she needs the booster at this exact moment when getting infected gives you better immunity? Sure, it might give you slightly better protection if you get the booster after getting infected, but imo it's overkill and not a necessity, and with a possible bad reaction to the vaccine, it's not worth it for the slightly better protection it provides when you're already sitting in such a good spot, since you already have better protection and immunity than people who've just gotten the 2 shots and the booster. Maybe in 10 months or a year it might make sense for her to get another shot, but not anytime soon.
