> Also, you could just be spreading FUD, in which case: shut up.

This seems pretty flaggable.

So flag it, and don’t comment about it.

TIL how to flag :) Someone else did the previous comment though.

> Most people in the USA have gotten the first two shots, so it's probably best to speed the release of the booster by doing a shorter study of just booster use

I understand that, but I think you’re missing the bigger issue. Let’s say five years from now they’re on the fifth new booster (optimistically, since this one took longer than a year to come out), will you have had to complete all 6+ earlier boosters in sequence before you can get the latest one? Surely at some point it’s not a reasonable assumption to think that everyone has diligently gotten the latest shots, like clockwork. Eventually the shots have to be able to work independently, right? Again, we seem to be able to pull off a new flu shot every single year...

But this one requires only the primary course - why would you assume that you would need "all 6+ earlier boosters in sequence" when this one doesn't even require any previous booster?

Agree, those are questions we need to understand the answers to, and I would guess that's the next focus area: how to improve the initial series of vaccinations using this bivalent vaccine, or maybe a later a more-multi-valent vaccine. My guess is that right now, it's a matter of doing what needs to be done now to cover the majority of people, since we can't do it all at once.

I read it as this:

"I don't have an advanced scientific medical degree in epidemiology, but don't you guys also see this as sketchy?"

you mean an advanced epidemiology degree like the one Jay Bhattacharya has who had been finding it sketchy since before the lockdown but was actively shut down politically instead of being addressed by the greater community and who only was able to get his voice out well after he was proven correct?

or do you read it more as 'i want such a small group of people to voice concerns so that everyone can virtually ignore it because of my significant amount of bias and personal feelings so that minorities and lower income communities can be negatively affected by my bullshit execution of terrible ideas'

The goal of calling things FUD is not some automatically pure thing, though. A question is easy to identify. Calling a question FUD is a subjective judgment by someone whose motives we also don't know.

A comment trying to convince people that the vaccines only exist for pharma profit is FUD and a waste of time to address.

Flagging is the appropriate action for many cases like the above.