Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Boost?

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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