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Originally Posted by backofbeyond
Jab 3 coming to a clinic near you shortly (my daughter gets hers this week), so I wonder whether part of the hoarding has been in anticipation of this going ahead. I have wondered whether there's a foreign aid budget analogy element to this, where the vaccines have been used - like money usually is - as a political influence stick to beat people with.
As for vaccine 'refuseniks', my sympathy gene seems to have run the whole gamut over the last year or so from 'they don't understand' through 'we need to convince them' to 'on their own heads be it'. I had a friend in the US email me a few days ago and mention that his next door neighbour's live at home son has just caught it. Both parents are unvaccinated by choice and all three of them are now quarantined together at home. It'll be interesting to see how that one works out. On the other hand, one of my wife's medical partners has just caught it as well and is confined to her house. She's double vaccinated and (so far anyway) isn't that ill with it. Because the practice is so overwhelmed with work she's still having to take patient referrals by phone / zoom while trying to recover.
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I suspect that there is a large element of retention for the third jab going on - they have been talking of the booster jab publicly for some time so behind closed doors for longer than that. However, there should be sufficient to start to deliver on the promises. .
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