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Re:Stanford requires booster shots for all students by emteycz on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:08PM (#29739367)
Tetanus booster is once every 10 years or so, isn't it? Flu shots aren't a requirement, are they?
Re:Stanford requires booster shots for all students by falcolas on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:16PM (#29739486)
The time frame for a booster is based on the longevity of its protection.

The flu shot (and many others) are required for some professions. Protection for the vulnerable they interact with.

Opinion: if you don’t want to protect the vulnerable in society, you should refrain from participating in it.

Re:Stanford requires booster shots for all students by vizzah on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:26PM (#29739626)
Aren't the vulnerable already protected with boosters? Where is the logic?
Re:Stanford requires booster shots for all students by earthicus on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:44PM (#29739840)
My vulnerability is that I take immunosuppresants, which makes the vaccines significantly less effective (last I heard a few months ago, fully half of the breakthrough infections of the vaccinated were in the small population of immunosuppressed people).
Re:Stanford requires booster shots for all students by vizzah on Thursday December 30, 2021 @04:49PM (#29741874)
OK, I get your point. It's an ideological dilemma then - you'd prefer as many people around you to be vaccinated and boosted to lessen your chance of getting infected (although, even those boosted could transmit). On the other hand, those younger cohorts getting vaccines mostly to protect the others are subjecting themselves to low, but still tangible risk of getting vaccine complications. So there is some altruism at play and this is something which shouldn't definitely be mandated by the governments. (PS: It's good that very effective pills are now coming to help immunosuppressed).
Re:Stanford requires booster shots for all students by falcolas on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:30PM (#29739681)
Like the flu shots, there are people who legitimately (shorthand for “have a medical reason”) can’t get vaccinated.
Re:Stanford requires booster shots for all students by adgjlsfhk1 on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:46PM (#29739863)
vaccines are more effective the more people have them.