Are you willing to get the Covid vaccine when offered?

St. Widge said
I'm curious what his reasoning is for the idea that we can't keep vaccinating everyone possible every 6 months? Is it some concern with the build up of doses? Just a cost issue? The ability to produce that much vaccine? The logistics? A specific issue for the NHS in the U.K.?

If it's a health concern it's one thing. But, if it's just a cost/logistics/ability to produce issue, I don't see the issue with treating it like the flu vaccine only with a vaccine tailored to a specific variant every 6 months rather than every year. I mean, I get that it might not be possible everywhere, but that's one of those advantages of living in the more developed nations. Maybe that's not fair, but it is reality.

And, maybe with further research, they can reduce the need for boosters/tailored vaccines to only once per year or less. It just seems likely that COVID isn't going away and we are going to end up having to treat it with at least yearly vaccines just like the flu and maybe adopt the Asian habit of wearing masks when sick and/or during winter. But, like the flu vaccine there will be breakthrough infections. I just hope that the strains are generally on the milder side.

He's a bit vague about it in the interview. He does say:

Pollard feels that the comparison with flu vaccines is “not an unreasonable way to look at it” – but the difference is that flu is seasonal, whereas Covid doesn’t appear to have settled into a seasonal pattern so far – there was plenty of delta over the summer.

I'm not entirely convinced about that rationale myself, I'd think there's a case for further vaccination as long as there's a benefit in terms of preventing illness, not just deaths, and I don't think seasonality would necessarily negate that. The focus on preventing solely deaths seems to have become increasingly blinkered with Covid. Generally we care about other outcomes too.

And then he goes on to talk about the importance of global vaccination, which perhaps suggests he thinks further shots in well off nations hinders that. Perhaps, but I don't think that has to be inevitable. Or, conversely, if it is inevitable, I don't think not providing further vaccinations locally will suddenly cause wealthy nations to step up in terms of global vaccinations.