From: slider@anashram.com

Those who got their second jab at least five months ago would be eligible
for a Pfizer booster from Sunday, he said.

President Isaac Herzog, who turns 61 in September, was the first to get
the booster on Friday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-58021386

This comes amid a surge in infections in Israel, and concern in many
countries over the highly contagious Delta variant.

"Findings show that there is a decline in the body's immunity over time,"
Mr Bennett said at a briefing on Thursday.

"The aim of the supplementary dose is to build it up again, and thus
reduce the chances of infection and serious illness significantly."

The prime minister added that 2,000 people with weakened immune systems
had already received a third dose with no severe side effects.

Experts say it is not yet clear whether a third dose will reduce Covid
cases.

Last month, the Israeli authorities reintroduced a requirement to wear
masks indoors amid a rise in cases.

Israel has been one of the most successful countries in the world in
tackling the pandemic.

It carried out the fastest vaccination programme, under which well over
half the population of 9.3 million has been partly or fully immunised.

Israel has reported nearly 870,000 infections since the start of the
outbreak, with nearly 6,500 deaths, according to America's Johns Hopkins University.

### - "Findings show that there is a decline in the body's immunity over
time,"

i.e., this doesn't bode very well in terms of ever getting permanently rid
of this shit then does it huh...

an annual covid shot possibly becoming the norm for the foreseeable future?

this coupled with the potentially nightmare scenario of compulsory
inoculation and the papers to prove it or ya can't go anywhere or do
anything, and we gots a recipe for endless public unrest & conflict going forward...

obviously too, our whole system for 'coping' with pandemics is wholly inadequate, it being far better to prevent these things rather than
mopping up the mess afterwards coz there wasn't anything we did about it
to effectively halt the outbreak?

and because one thing's for absolute sure: covid wont be the LAST pandemic we'll ever encounter!?

better learn our lessons NOW then VIA covid before summat even worse comes along!?

coz if instead of covid this had been ebola with its 80% fatality rate,
we'd all be totally fucked by now! fucked!!!

covid has thus been a warning shot right across our bow!

plus it's not even certain our civilisation will actually survive covid?? (i.e., another 5 years of this and everyone will be totally bankrupt?)

so we GOTS to get this right!

(poor old wallyworld heh, it's under the cosh...)

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