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Long term will depend on what variants emerge. But assuming we are left with just the current vaccines and current variants, the older population and other vulnerable groups will be offered a booster vaccine as and when it is deemed immunity is waning significantly, or incidence of infection is...

About 85% of road deaths are caused by sober drivers, using statistics incorrectly, you will be much safer drunk.

You can believe any old nonsense, but in this case you are almost certainly wrong. Even if you have had covid several times, a vaccine shot will increase your ability to fight the virus, and you can not be certain that your immune system has ever had to fight the virus yet.

After 2 years of this pandemic, variants that are more transmissible emerging several times, lock downs and job losses, not being able to visit dying relatives, losing people to the virus, having the NHS put almost everything else on hold, anyone not getting the vaccine if they have been offered...

Firstly, there is research that shows vaccine and real virus exposure produces a higher immunity than either one alone. The evidence is that you will have greater immunity, even if you already have some. Secondly, you are only guessing that you have any current antibodies at all.

In fairness, there are some other rare cancers that he will be directly protected against, but the main reason for offering it to boys is for the herd immunity effect on cervical cancer.

This is bollocks mate, there is of course an element of self protection, especially for those of us over 30, but we give our kids the R part of the MMR to protect unborn children, Rubella is rarely severe to them directly, well, those of us that are not relying on everyone else getting...

If there is ever something I don't want to do, it is out of fear usually. I can't see why you would not want it if it holds no fears for you, and as you understand how it works, know that it can only increase any immunity you already have, and have a suspicion that you have had symptomatic...

You have estimated that you do not need to get it, on the suspicion that you either have had asymptomatic infection, and have antibodies, or are genetically resistant to this corona virus. But you do not know, unless you were regularly testing, as those in certain jobs do, or have had your DNA...

I do not believe there is a solid number anyone can give you, the Delta variant is better at transmission than others, and the difference between the number of viral particles in the breath of an unvaccinated covid sufferer and a vaccinated one are not large with Delta, however the vaccinated...

I think you are placing more weight on the risks in getting the vaccine than is due, especially if you are weighing it as heavier than the risk of reinfection. Whatever your age, and survival rates for that bracket, they could be higher with the vaccine, and there is more than just surviving to...

Yeah, I was responding to someone who said no point in getting the vaccine if they had had the real thing already.

Less likely if you are vaccinated, ever less likely the more people are vaccinated. There will not likely be the same sort of herd immunity that we get from some other vaccines, for a number of reasons, one of which being that immunity wanes for this virus, another being that other species can...

You will get a better immune response from "hybrid" immunity, that is from a dose of the real thing, plus the vaccine. This is better than either covid alone or vaccine alone stimulated immune response. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02795-x

I have a mate who is an anti-vaxxer, he posted some stuff up about the polio vaccine a while back and showed polio cases correlating to DDT use in the US, and how the incidence of polio dropped before the vaccine was introduced in line with a decreased use of DDT, all very convincing at first...

Not as uncomfortable as having a tube stuffed into your airways to keep you alive. I prefer carrot to stick though. https://news.sky.com/video/covid-19-free-brothel-vouchers-in-vienna-for-customers-getting-jab-12464792