I just seen an article in one of the Irish dailies, stating loudly that the booster shots are crucial now. They’re to be given after five months, apparently.
Okay. Imagine this is true. It still represents a shift in what we were told previously. I certainly wasn’t promised a vaccine with only a 5 month shelf life. The point I’m making is, they don’t know enough definitively about the virus, and they don’t know enough definitively about the vaccines. So on what basis are some governments locking up unvaccinated people? If there’s a definitive “science” about either virus or vaccine, then the evidence that supports a policy like this would be all over the news, and the hesitant would be won over.
In favour of the vaccines, it must be said that although about 48% of patients in ICU in Ireland are vaccinated, they come from a pool of about 90% of the population, whereas the 52% in ICU who are unvaccinated come from only 10% of the population. However, I’m both wary and weary of stats like this because they don’t tell us the tale behind the numbers. Are all the people in ICU suffering from conditions that make them susceptible to Covid regardless of whether they’re vaccinated or not? We don’t know. And this is how statistics can be weaponised.
I don’t have buyers remorse about getting the vaccine, because the vaccine hasn’t affected me, and catching covid didn’t really bother me either. I never feared covid, nor the vaccine. I know of a man my age who’s vaccinated, caught covid and is now in hospital. There but for the grace of God, etc…