Get A Booster shot
Many months and many mutations ago, I argued that one shot of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was enough to protect against the original Sars Cov2. Since then delta. It doesn’t especially evade, but is more generally fit and I thought (and probably didn’t post) that two shots are needed given delta. Now omicron. Pfizer just claimed that three shots are enough against omicron, although two are not. Putting my shoulder where my mouth wasn’t (until now) I got a booster on Sunday.
My alternative running title is “non c’e’ 2 senza 3” that is: there isn’t two without three. This is an Italian saying, basically meaning if you do something twice, you will do it again. It seems to fit the evolving (in a Darwinian sense) situation, except this blog is angrybear not orsoarrabbiata (literally rabid bear which would be about as alarming as omicron)
based on anecdotal evidence, it does seem like booster shots could be the cause of omicron’s spread…this article, where all those infected had their boosters, seems typical:
on the other hand, since it seems that only about one in four of the US omicron cases have not been vaccinated, it does appear that being unvaccinated offers a slight advantage vis-a-vis the vaccinated population against.this new mutant…
NB: i am, of course, being facetious…
What could go wrong?
I got the first two shots and my Johnson hasn’t fallen off, yet.
Not that it matters. I don’t use it for fun, anymore.
So, the first two did not work.
So, the third will work.
And, when it doesn’t.
They’ll order you to get the next.
And, the next.
And, the . . .
All that being said, you guys are far better at epidemiology, immunology, and totalitarianism than economics.
ilsm
They are good at both.