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psmith's avatar

Best wishes on your recovery OP.

Maybe all you galaxy brains can help me with this. Got Moderna in March 2021 with mild sides, J&J booster in December 2021 with a few hours of injection site pain (mix n match, seemingly lower risk of myo/pericarditis), COVID in July 2022. ~55 V02 max, not overweight, 30yo, male, but I'd like to travel a bit this winter without being laid low by COVID, and see some elderly family as well. Is there a clear winner for me between Novavax and bivalent mRNA booster?

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Every time <s>euthanasia</s> assisted suicide comes up in the news (California before this, Netherlands before that, probably forgetting others), I find myself wondering if it's a good concept __in general__, nevermind the particulars around criteria and gatekeeping. We have strong norms against bog-standard suicide for <long list of reasons>. And I'll grant there are certain unfortunate situations where death is probably preferable than the callous insistence on barely-living, which dominates so many ugly terminal-care decisions. But to mirror another comment, it really seems like the correct course would be to address poverty, disease, homelessness, mental illness, etc. rather than sanction an exit valve that we normally work really hard to keep shut.

(I also think of all the old-fashioned exit valves which we've eliminated in the march to enlightenment...barbaric in many ways, to be sure, but at least that's deriving __some__ value from a life, rather than wasting it? I'd hope that assisted-suicide patients at least sign up for organ donation or something, to be blunt about it...)

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