If the road to the new world goes through booster shots, then the new world will be further away than it is now. Right now, every booster shot in a first world arm is a shot that is not in a third world arm. Africa's vaccination rate is three percent. Over a billion Africans remain unvaccinated. Every shot that goes somewhere other than into an un-fully-vaccinated arm will make the pandemic longer and more people will die.
It's like those awful moral choice games people play - the train full of people, the bridge, and your son, for instance. My first impulse was to refuse the booster until Africa is 70% vaccinated, but that's beginning to feel a little hyperbolic. What do you think? Booster or not, and why?
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