You spent 5-6 days over the last year recovering from side effects, but you don't really know what the alternative would have been. You may be healthy and relatively young, but without the vaccine shots you would most likely have had much more severe symptoms.
I don't need a citation as I know that the more people that get vaccinated to the best extent possible, the better for our economy and the better for our older citizens who also deserve to live as well as those who are immune compromised. I think we all owe at least a bit of self-sacrifice for the benefit of society as we profit personally from a stable, productive, slightly enlightened society. It's not all about "how will this benefit me personally, directly, and immediately".
You might use your faith in "TheScience"TM to conduct your life, but for those of us paying attention to almost every public health official that told us that double dose vaccine would entirely prevent infection (something I knew was wrong before the CDC director said it) - we know they are at minimum incompetent and as such I require actual science to make decisions for myself.
They never said it would prevent infection. Find me one instance of Fauci or the head of the CDC saying that and I'll retract what I said. Sure you'll find some quack on extremes of vax/antivax but not a single scientist of any renown said "the vaccine will 100% prevent infection and sickness", you won't find it, I guarantee it but if you want to waste a few hours on google the go right ahead.
>And we have -- we can kind of almost see the end. We`re vaccinating so very fast, our data from the CDC today suggests, you know, that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick, and that it's not just in the clinical trials but it's also in real world data.
--Rochelle Walensky, Director CDC
I would recommend reflecting on what kind of bias it takes to be so confident without spending even the 30 seconds necessary to find that quote via google.
>Blood from individuals who received one or two doses had little ability to neutralize Omicron. But blood from people who had received a booster dose of an mRNA vaccine fought the variant effectively. Their neutralization capacity against Omicron was only four- to sixfold lower than against the original strain.
While younger healthier folks are much less likely to have severe symptoms in the first place there is no reason to believe that what chance they have of experiencing such doesn't decrease further with boosting.
from the study referenced in the article you linked
> Finally, the number of hospitalized individuals included was too small to draw definitive conclusions regarding VE[1] and durability of 3 doses in preventing hospitalization.
[1] Vaccine Effectiveness
effectively this isn't a source that supports the claim that young, no-comorbidity individuals are more likely to get severe disease with 2 doses compared to 3
It seems exceedingly likely that this is so and that the small number of hospitalized individuals merely means that the absolute risk is very low either way whereas the risk of the vaccination is lower yet and the optimal strategy to minimize risk to yourself and more importantly to others is to vaccinate.
This is from 1-dose - I couldn't find the supplementary data for that study on 2dose/3dose
but needless to say that no this study does not in any shape or form suggest that it's exceedingly likely that a young no-comorbidity person is more likely to get severe disease with 2dose vs 3dose.
edit: found the data for 2/3 dose comparison - which again does not support the claim, because this is not age stratified data - and we know covid had significant age preference
