[nope96]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/09/01/cdc-fall-bo...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Thursday that millions of eligible Americans, including those as young as 12, get an updated omicron-targeting booster shot to bolster defenses against serious illness and death during a potential fall or winter rise in covid-19 cases.

If you doctor is telling you not to get the booster, you need a better doctor.

[ckw]

UCSF professor Vinay Prasad making the case against the new boosters (and claiming that those responsible for these recommendations ‘exhibit a pattern of gross incompetence’):

https://youtu.be/USKDUvKmN5Q

[inferiorhuman]

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be Vinay Prasad. Regardless of where he works he's still compared mask and vaccine mandates to the Third Reich. Most public health officials have a much lower tolerance for death or lasting injury than Prasad does. Even amongst laypeople Prasad's tolerance for someone elsedying is much higher than that of those other people.

A pattern of gross incompetence is the kind of thing you'd typically only level at people trying to Godwin their way out of scientific discourse.

[ckw]

This is pure ad hominem.

Are his claims false? Is his reasoning unsound?

[inferiorhuman]

> Are his claims false?

Yes

[ckw]

So engage with those. How are those reading this thread edified by you simply claiming they are false, but presenting no evidence?

[inferiorhuman]

By virtue of the fact that neither myself nor that guy live in Nazi Germany is prima facie evidence that he's not worth taking seriously. If you shit your pants and then proceed to smear it all over yourself and then the ceiling while humming the Bonanza theme song don't be surprised when people don't engage you.

If you want an earnest discussion find someone making an earnest argument.