Israel Finds Fourth Covid Booster Is Ineffective
If I understand correctly, israel mandates a third shot (to do normal stuff), as do many places in north america, either now or soon. And I can only imagine many people would be happy to mandate a fourth as soon as possible.<p>What I find most frustrating is that politicians are happy to make these mandates live, during an ongoing situation where we actually don&#x27;t know a lot about how effective things are (and in the case of the latest variant, we know they are not effective). It&#x27;s one thing to provide treatment to people that want it, and to share the latest thinking and advice. But it becomes pretty ridiculous when the latest musings go unfiltered into mandates.<p>I read there is an omicron specific vaccine that will be ready in a couple months. Will that then immediately be forced on everyone, even if they&#x27;ve already had their 3-4 shots? What if we invent another thing?<p>Vaccines make sense, but real time forcing people to take them as soon as they&#x27;re invented doesn&#x27;t. I have my three shots, but I&#x27;m terrified now that the precident is set that a government can force me to take something that I might not want to. When was the last time anyone actually trusted a government?