George J
Herefordshire member
As countries like the USA and Israel seem to edge closer to implementing a booster dose for Covid 19 in the near future I thought this might be suitable topic for discussion. I have thought hard about this, and being a daily viewer of John Campbell's updates on the pandemic, via YouTube, I thought I'd post a link to today's presentation, and also post what I put in the public comments below the vid. I have a very strong view on this, as may be perceived from my YouTube comment.
"The reality is that it would be hard to justify early third doses when the majority of the human race who wants vaccination will not even have had first a dose, let alone a completed course.
"I am a vaccine enthusiast, for examples, from Tetanus and Blackleg in sheep to Measles and Chicken-pox in humans ... I made the effort to get the earliest possible dose [as it happens Oxford A-Z] and waited the due eleven weeks for the second dose, in March and June 2021.
"I would have to weigh with great thoughtfulness having a third dose, for example, if India had not yet vaccinated all Indians who wish it with a full course.
"I am quite old enough to know my glory days are behind me [sixty later this year] and will accept my eventual mortality with grace and equanimity, whatever brings about my demise. I don't expect others to take special care round me, though I do take care for others in shops and on the bus, wearing a mask... etc.
"Covid has been serious in many countries so far, but much bigger problems are global climate change and burning of finite fossil fuel resulting in the massive jump in levels of CO2 in the atmosphere over the last fifty years. Unless this is sorted out shortly, and reversed in time, Covid is going to look like a bottle of spilt milk compared to the house burning down.
"So sorry not to be so full of "hopium" ... I plan for the worst, and if it does not quite happen I can feel blessed."
What do others think? Is it better for the developed nations to protect their own populations, or is it ethically more important to take the global view and get the maximum number of people in all nations who want to be vaccinated fully dosed before we start taking up booster doses?
All the best from George
"The reality is that it would be hard to justify early third doses when the majority of the human race who wants vaccination will not even have had first a dose, let alone a completed course.
"I am a vaccine enthusiast, for examples, from Tetanus and Blackleg in sheep to Measles and Chicken-pox in humans ... I made the effort to get the earliest possible dose [as it happens Oxford A-Z] and waited the due eleven weeks for the second dose, in March and June 2021.
"I would have to weigh with great thoughtfulness having a third dose, for example, if India had not yet vaccinated all Indians who wish it with a full course.
"I am quite old enough to know my glory days are behind me [sixty later this year] and will accept my eventual mortality with grace and equanimity, whatever brings about my demise. I don't expect others to take special care round me, though I do take care for others in shops and on the bus, wearing a mask... etc.
"Covid has been serious in many countries so far, but much bigger problems are global climate change and burning of finite fossil fuel resulting in the massive jump in levels of CO2 in the atmosphere over the last fifty years. Unless this is sorted out shortly, and reversed in time, Covid is going to look like a bottle of spilt milk compared to the house burning down.
"So sorry not to be so full of "hopium" ... I plan for the worst, and if it does not quite happen I can feel blessed."
What do others think? Is it better for the developed nations to protect their own populations, or is it ethically more important to take the global view and get the maximum number of people in all nations who want to be vaccinated fully dosed before we start taking up booster doses?
All the best from George
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