Yes

What if I'm young and healthy? Do I really need another booster?

The short answer is: probably not, as long as you don't mind being sick for a week or two.

Never mind permanent neurological effects like long COVID, and increasing your risk of stroke or heart attack, even in young and healthy people (my 31-year-old, healthy boss had a stroke the first time they got COVID before getting vaccinated, no prior history of strokes), and depleting your immune system so that getting sick with anything in the next 2 years is more severe.

Many people get an annual flu shot, not to avoid death but because they don't want to miss work or life or be miserable for a few weeks. The same is true for COVID-19.

COVID is just like the flu, bro. Trust me, bro

Yes

I don't even know how to get a booster. I don't know if they're generally available where I am. My compatriots appear to have completely forgotten that Covid is still here. I don't leave the house without my mask, still.

I took my booster shot in less than a month ago.

Getting my shot and a flu vaccine next week.

It should be treated as an annual shot now. We just got ours last week together with the flu vaccine. 5th covid shot in total. Arms were sore and had a slight fever for a day, then I was all good. Didn't even need to take a tylenol for the fever.

Yes, you should.

yes

1. Yes
2. Go do it
3. Right now
4. That wasn't a request
5. See point 1
6. Covid is way worse than anything the vaccine can do to you
7. You afraid of a lil poke or what, baby?

The fact that vaccines help prevent the spread of disease is offhandedly mentioned at the very end. This is so wild. Isn't herd immunity a concept most people understand? That vaccines aren't just about you personally?

I'm not high-risk at all and I got my latest booster a few weeks back - upon learning this very shocking fact my GP asked me why in a pretty judgmental way. Same deal when I had to jump through hoops to get my previous booster even though the official government policy in my country was that anyone could get it. Different pharmacies had different interpretations of this very clear policy though and nobody agreed.

I don't live in constant fear of what COVID will do to me personally, but the vibe I get from practicing health workers I interact with is that I'm weird for caring about getting vaccinated and it's getting to me. Like, am I wrong? I don't think I am.