There are still people invested in continuing COVID-19 as a big thing. Most people have abandoned the COVID cult at this point. Not many wear masks (and half of those are wearing them improperly and/or wearing a mask that makes zero difference) anymore, though I do enjoy the tweets about
Tonight, I tested positive for COVID-19. I have no symptoms and I will continue to isolate. I’m grateful to be both vaccinated and boosted
— Reda (@RedaMor_) August 6, 2023
Isn’t the whole point about getting vaxxed and boosted to not get Wuhan flu? Because there are lots and lots of tweets like this. And along comes the NY Times (also available at Yahoo News)
Don’t Get Your Next COVID Booster Quite Yet
An uptick in COVID-19 cases and the fast-approaching new school year have many people wondering when they should get their next booster. The short answer, according to experts: not quite yet — you will be a lot better off if you wait another month or two.
In June, an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration recommended that the next COVID vaccine formulation target the omicron XBB.1.5 variant.
Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax are now working to update, test and mass-produce their vaccines, which will then need to be officially authorized by the FDA. Experts estimate that shots will be available to the public by late September or early October.
Did anyone else read “mass-produce” as “mass-profit”?
There are two main reasons to hold out for the updated vaccine. First, it will be a better match for the variants that are currently circulating.
The second reason to wait a month or two for the new vaccine is that it will increase the odds that your defenses against the virus will be strongest when cases are expected to peak, historically between December and February. Antibodies wane over time, and protection is highest during the first three months after an infection or vaccination.
In other words, the power of the “vaccine” doesn’t last long. But, we’ll still be seeing social media post about people being “grateful to be vaxxed and boosted” as they catch COVID
COVID-19 is ‘heating up all around’ this summer. Should we be wearing masks again?
The uptick in coronavirus transmission this summer has not brought major alarm from health experts.
But it is raising questions about whether the risks are high enough to go back to safety measures that many have abandoned.
Most people have stopped wearing masks and aren’t likely to follow suggestions to return to that practice all the time again.
Would those be the safety measures that really made no difference, as COVID cases and deaths surged in 2021 despite all the vaccines, forced masking, forced staying home, and all the other crazy. Even in the People’s Republik Of California (it’s an LA Times article) the Comrades have mostly abandoned masks. Heck, even those mass stealing from drug stores do not bother. People have moved on.
