To be fair, it's kind of challenging when you're supposed to wait six months following your last COVID infection...
this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2023
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I thought it was 3 months for infection and 6 for last shot?
In Saskatchewan you should wait 6 months, but it needs to be at least 3 months.
I'm sure it varies across jurisdictions, but I copied and pasted it from the MB website.
Wait, 6 months?? I never heard about that
That's what they're saying in my province, at any rate:
Beginning in the fall of 2023 for those previously vaccinated against COVID-19, individuals aged 6 months and older are recommended to receive one dose of the new XBB.1.5 formulation of COVID-19 vaccine if it has been at least 6 months from the previous COVID-19 vaccine dose or known SARS-CoV-2 infection (which ever is later).
I wonder how that compares to flu shots.
We got both ours done at once
Ya, that was my first thought. I wonder how it compares to flu shot and how flu shot compares to previous years.
Over the past two decades, flu shots have had a 25-40% uptake rate per year (source). It's amazing that covid boosters are so much lower than this, though if people were recently infected or vaccinated, then maybe they aren't allowed to get vaccinated with the booster designed for the xbb station yet.
Not surprised when the government tried to pretend that COVID isn't a problem anymore
No just that. Even stores did away with measures to protect their staff and shoppers: removing clear plexiglass at cash registers, getting rid of hand sanitizer, removing social distancing markers on the floor, etc.
Because the government isn't madating anything anymore. They're all just pretending like it doesn't exist anymore
But stores already had these things in place, and the original investment/cost was already spent.
Removing those safeguards seems to have been done out of spite. And to whose benefit? It just creates additional strain on employees, who will get sick more often.
Yeah, but then the staff get sick and they can find some reason to cut their hours or fire them. Then replace them with new hires that are paid less and get less in benefits and compensation.
The timing of invitations this year was awful. We were pretty much through flu season when I got my invitation.
What invitation? I had to proactively remember to get my vaccine.
In bc I got a text message and an email letting me know I can book an appointment
Invitation?
I got mine the end of October. Could've maybe got it a week or two earlier.
Got mine in October, along with the regular flu shot. I haven't gotten anything yet.
What would you say to someone who has no concerns about getting sick as all of humanity will forever get sick in the future, some will die, some will live, but life will always continue on regardless of a 100% guarantee of death for every new creation that is born? Every life will end, but life itself will never stop and will never end.
COVID ? What COVID ? Oh yeah, totally forgot about this.
Here in Australia, official advice is to stop at 4. Which many people have already had