COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]

sammymvpknight said

Or we just don’t do boosters except for those most suspectible. I’m treating Omicron as my booster, and it’ll probably provide better protection from a better variety of coronavirus than giving your body something it’s seen twice already.

And to answer your question: “Does the person who is getting double vaxxed and boosted take more precautions than the person that is unvaxxed?” Absolutely.

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My friend is 50 and in good health. He and his wife got vaxxed in March. In late summer he decided to get the shingles vaccine, and when the boosters came around, he was still in the window on his shingles vax and couldn’t get boosted. His wife did.

Over Christmas he and his wife got covid, presumably omicron. She had a couple of days of cold symptoms, he got his arse kicked - he’s still dealing with it and at its worst, his oxygen was below 90% and he got supplemental O2.

I think we’re fortunate that omicron is milder on the whole but it’s still a potentially serious infection - and it’s not just the classically susceptible that face risk from it. I got my booster in November and I’m certain it helped me fight of my infection as more of an inconvenience rather than a medical concern. But I definitely felt it and can easily imagine how it could have been more serious and how much that would have sucked.

I don’t know if endless boosters is necessary but I’m not sure we’re at the point yet where the endemic virus is not a significant threat to people’s health without recent antibodies in one form or another.