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Lansing's medical system is Code Red for the first time during the pandemic

just looking at the hospitalization data it doesnt look like covid is the cause


https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98159-523641--,00.html

I'm right at 6 months since my second shot, as of today.  I hadn't planned on getting the booster just yet, but we're traveling to New Mexico for Christmas so it might be a good time to go ahead with it.

Yes here in Florida they are very proactive and will let me know as soon as it’s available, at which time I will go right ahead and get it. 

you told Badge he didn't need one for travel

There is need one, legally, versus need one as being a good idea.

utee didn't seem to think it was a good idea a few weeks ago

Badge disagreed

I don't think I ever said it was a bad idea.  Just not really a necessity.

I'm obviously not overly worried about it and I'm certainly not rushing out to do it.  But if it's easy, I'll probably knock it out.

Convenient
Cheap
Tasty (not GOOD, but checks the salt box, the sugar box, etc. in our brains)
Plentiful

All the rich food-producers hire all the best lobbyists to keep the status quo.  Do not be fooled - the fact that Americans eat garbage food is directly due to wealthy companies wanting to stay wealthy. 

Sadly, this is true. Big food is big business- and they spend billions lobbying in DC every year to maintain status quo. 

I don't think I ever said it was a bad idea.  Just not really a necessity.

I'm obviously not overly worried about it and I'm certainly not rushing out to do it.  But if it's easy, I'll probably knock it out.

study in Israel suggest that fully vaccinated people were TWENTY SEVEN times more likely to get an symptomatic covid infection than an an unvaccinated person who had already caught covid and recovered, suggesting that natural immunity is much stronger and longer lasting than vaccine-induced immunity.

Yeah, we've seen that study. 

Here's what we know:

• Natural immunity is better than vaccine-derived immunity.
• Vaccine-derived immunity is significant at reducing hospitalizations/deaths, but less effective and for shorter duration at preventing infection.
• Natural immunity followed by vaccination appears to be better than either alone.

But that leaves a case that isn't clear... Is the immunity conferred by being vaccinated and then experiencing a COVID infection post-vaccination as strong and/or durable as that of natural immunity due to infection prior to being vaccinated? 

A booster might give more protection against infection, but for what duration and given that the vaccine seems to be pretty durable at reducing hospitalization/death rates, would it be smarter to simply take my chances and try to get more durable immunity now that I'm vaccinated, by exposure in the wild? 

I don't know... I'll probably end up getting the booster, but I wish we knew more about the relative immunity conferred by natural infection when already vaccinated.