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Yes

What if I’m young and healthy? Do I really need another booster?

The short answer is: probably not, as long as you don’t mind being sick for a week or two.

Never mind permanent neurological effects like long COVID, and increasing your risk of stroke or heart attack, even in young and healthy people (my 31-year-old, healthy boss had a stroke the first time they got COVID before getting vaccinated, no prior history of strokes), and depleting your immune system so that getting sick with anything in the next 2 years is more severe.

Many people get an annual flu shot, not to avoid death but because they don’t want to miss work or life or be miserable for a few weeks. The same is true for COVID-19.

COVID is just like the flu, bro. Trust me, bro

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They’re just publishing advice that’s the exact opposite of public health science. Apathy and zero guidance is already making it so that very few people are getting the boosters but they feel the need to actively make things worse.

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Yes

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I don’t even know how to get a booster. I don’t know if they’re generally available where I am. My compatriots appear to have completely forgotten that Covid is still here. I don’t leave the house without my mask, still.

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i went on walgreens website and clicked the covid link near the top then followed vax links. hopefully there is something similar available in your area

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I’ll take a look, thanks.

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13 points

I took my booster shot in less than a month ago.

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Same. The pharmacist actually asked me if I was tired of boosters yet. “No, I like being alive,” I said. I hate SE USA.

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You’re in the South? Ugh.

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10 points

Yes, I live in hell. Ask me anything.

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8 points

Same. Right before starting a new job, I was willing to pay out of pocket. But because I had no health insurance, I guess the gov must have covered it cause I wasn’t charged.

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That’s good.

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Getting my shot and a flu vaccine next week.

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