I took the 2 shots & 1 booster should i take the next one ?

“A sign of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Anon.

“A sign of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Anon.”
or a sign of a bored troll

For all these people saying “trust in Hashem!”. What do you do when you break your arm? Daven extra hard?

I’d rather solicit psak halacha here on the CR than get medical advice from our resident public health professionals. For many of us the prior vaccinations and boosters have worked well and B’H we have never had any problems with covid. Its so incredibly based on your personal health status that no generalization makes sense.

of course you should.
pikuach nefesh comes first.

move on indeed.
You seem to be unaware (as is AAQ if I recall correctly) that pikuach nefesh is not a phrase that means “can be really dangerous, even fatal, to some people”. There are guidelines to determine if something falls under the halacha of being pikuach nefesh and there has been such a crazy misuse of this over the covid years.
You don’t have the option of applying the requirements of how to behave when pikuach nefesh is involved, unless it actually is pikuach nefesh. And by your comments it seems you may not be well versed on these criteria.

Well versed enough to inform you that there are specific guidelines and that they must be met in each case. That’s a pretty clear and comprehensive statement. The little I know came from Rabbi Akiva Tatz’s book on dangerous therapeutics.
If you didn’t know that halacha is determined by standards and not your opinion than you are either a fake or very new at learning. Either way, lol to the mommy’s basement. I am the mommy.

Some of my kids also used to throw insults at people when they were corrected. BH they grew out of it. Somewhere around 4th grade. I wish for you the same success!

> “A sign of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

I presume if you ate 2-3 meals yesterday, but now you are hungry – I hope you are not going to do the same mistake again -I know many people who ate and died within several days! And you need to pay for that expensive food!

His previous shots gave him a year with high antibodies and increasing T-cell immunity at a very low risk. Why not continue training your immune system to better fight the virus without actually encountering it? Especially as the alternative is to periodically encounter the virus itself.

AAQ – sorry, your post, although tangential, is sorely off topic.

It isn’t really so beneficial but it won’t really hurt. I’d say nothing to lose but not really necessary. But I’m not a doctor. Ask your doctor. Parenthetically, I assume everyone here understands the concept of emuna and that these types of discussions are regarding the proper hishtadlut one should perform. No need to point out it’s all up to Hashem which is, of coarse, a given.

“I presume if you ate 2-3 meals yesterday, but now you are hungry – I hope you are not going to do the same mistake again -I know many people who ate and died within several days! And you need to pay for that expensive food!”

Great point!
It is all a conspiracy by Big fooda to get rich.
And would you believe it? the Government says I have to feed my child even though I sadly know of people who died as a result of eating True Aspiration and choking are rare, but why take the chance. Time to get the Government out of our kitchens

I just took the 4th shot last week because medical science says that I have less of a chance of dying from Covid if I take it. Being close to 80 years old I am at risk. Nowhere in halacha does it say that taking the vaccine makes me a less frum yid than someone who refuses to take it. In fact, Rav Chaim Zatzal when asked, paskened that it is a chiyuv and not a reshus to get vaccinated and it is on video for all to see. I do not know of any anti-vaxer who is more frum than the Gadol Hador was.

reb shlomo = i heartedly agree with you.

rocky – you are funny

coffee > virus in order to be more virulent it becomes less deadly

this is a general rule of virus propagation that presumes that a deadlier host either quickly kills most hosts or, in human society, causes more preventive measures. So, it is a statistical, not a biological phenomenon. Given that the current pandemic went thru so many people all over the world with very varying behaviors, this is not perfectly followed: Delta turned out to be worse than Wuhan, but Omicron and BA.2 are indeed weaker.

How is this relevant to the fact that vaccines make it even milder, I am not sure. I don’t know though who is promoting vaccines – US has way lower rates, esp of boosters, than comparable countries and no vaccination is happening. People are literally dying because Trump is not the President – if he were, the press would be reminding us every day how bad things are and more people would vaccinate and wear masks.

Btw, anyone has experience with the new woonder drug – Paxlovid?