Posted on 10/02/2021 1:33:22 PM PDT by billorites
Am I ‘fully vaccinated’? For the last few months I was sure I was — but recent events are making me doubt myself.
Take Monday, when President Biden rolled up his sleeve and presented his unusually hirsute arm for his third Pfizer shot. This followed some federal health advice last week that people over 65, as well as 18-to-64-year-olds with ‘underlying health conditions’ or ‘jobs that increase their risk of developing severe COVID’, are eligible for a third dose of Pfizer.
‘The booster line is if you’re fully vaccinated — the bottom line is that if you’re fully vaccinated and — you’re highly protected now from severe illness, even if you get COVID-19,’ explained the President with his trademark clarity.
Due to a fortuitous run through a hospital parking lot, I secured two doses of Pfizer in March 2021. Back then, we became ‘fully vaccinated’ a full two weeks after completing the course of the COVID vaccine: after your second dose of Pfizer or Moderna or your ‘one-and-done’ Johnson & Johnson. For me, that was mid-April. But is President Biden now ‘more than fully vaccinated’? Or is the definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ about to ‘evolve’ — with the rest of us Pfizerites set to be downgraded, left gazing with suspicion at the other two rows on our CDC cards?
It seems worth asking – the goalposts have shifted so many times over the last 18 months as public health officials squabble over what ‘guidelines’ or ‘mandates’ are ‘necessary’ for us all. Even on the booster shot question, the federal government is divided: a CDC advisory committee voted against allowing it for those at risk because of ‘on-the-job’ exposure, while CDC director Rochelle Walensky overruled them and sided with the FDA, who signed off on the booster for the same group of people last Wednesday. ‘I really do hope that it’s going to be a three-dose vaccine,’ Dr Anthony Fauci told Axios last weekend. Wait, so it’s no longer a two-dose vaccine?
The booster shot question arose due to several factors. First, a small number of breakthrough infections due to Delta and other variants. Second, the varying efficacy of the different vaccines against subsequent variants (Pfizer good, Moderna very good…the poor schmucks overseas who got Sinopharm might as well have injected toilet water into their veins). And third, the gradual waning of antibodies conferred by the vaccines — which, studies indicate, occurs faster than in people who had COVID.
Most Americans didn’t get a say in which shot they got, meaning they didn’t get a say in their level of participation in this discussion. According to several officials, boosters for Moderna and J&J are also in the pipeline. And the US government has written pharmaceutical companies a blank check in the interest of defeating the coronavirus. It seems fair to wonder whether it might be a better use of this money to expand antibody testing, among the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, to get more of a handle on how close to ‘herd immunity’ this country is.
After all, it’s the immune response to the coming iterations of COVID that matters far more than how ‘fully vaccinated’ you are.
With Lefties in charge you’ll never be fully “vaccinated”.
“hirsute”....had to look that one up.
Read where one of them is gone from your system in 7 months; but that does not include the damage it may have done to your system.
On top of all this, the CDC’s ever-changing definition of a “vaccine” has become so watered down that anyone who takes vitamin D and zinc supplements can call himself “vaccinated” with a straight face.
I’d bet the skin of the prick was not pricked.
What's important is that I've had one more shot than you and that makes me the better person.
“hirsute”
I haven’t got that far yet.
That one made me spit sweet tea - I did too LOL! Glad I’m not the only one.
If you get jabbed every day you will always be sure of being in full compliance!
I don’t think anyone ever actually was.
The only thing you need is to do exactly what the government says you need to do. You can not be trusted to make your own decisions.
“I’m on my way to get my 3rd Clot shot because the first 2 didn’t work”
-Said the biggest dumb¬azz in the world.
I had the two Pfizer shots and got the CCP virus at the end of August. I’m not planning on getting the booster. Between the first two and the virus, I figure I’m as protected against the Wuhan as anyone. I’ve heard too many stories from people I believe about bad reactions to getting the shot after getting the ‘Rona.
It will change like the Fauci. I mean the weather.
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I would get several more boosters just to make sure you’re safe.
You are what the government says you are and nothing more
The answer will always be no when you defer your health decisions to vaxx shill “experts.”
Ask a barber if you need a haircut.
Who knows “what’s left behind”. This is all a planned, controlled, money and power grabbing scheme.
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