It’s refreshing to see you aren’t just deciding on a whim, and of course I respect your personal choice. But I do think the logic is flawed. The science does show now (albeit not 100% conclusive in terms of %s because date is still coming in but is clearly advanced enough to be reliable in saying it does have a strong effect) that the booster not only increases your ability to prevent infection, but also that it creates a stronger response if you do end up catching it. You also have to consider the WHOs agenda, which (perhaps rightly) would rather see the doses go to countries with low vaccine rates because on a holistic basis, it has an overall more net positive effect. I think if we were still at delta, your argument would be stronger because the booster impact for individuals at lower risk is probably negligible. But in the case of omicron, I think the science is starting to show it is more than a marginal impact. So it just seems odd to stop at 2 rather than 3, is my thought.
On the wider point of constant injections, I was having this conversation with someone earlier today incidentally. I think whilst we are in this “phase” of Covid, I could tolerate a jab every few months if that’s what it took. But if the next dose didn’t have scientifically a big impact I’d certainly be less in a rush (for use of a better word) to get it. Longer term, something annual would be fine and every 6 months (if again the science showed it was needed to vastly improve protection to both infection and serious illness) would just about be tolerable.
And that’s independent of the constant moral question of where should doses really be going if demand outstrips supply. On a wider moral level it does hit me somewhat that many African countries have vaccination rates in single digits and here we are running around grabbing three doses.
