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   🆎 (bloor@bloor.tw)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 06:37:17 JST 🆎

   A few months back I asked people on here (I think) about what, if any, options existed for getting a private Covid booster shot. I (like almost everyone my age I know) got my first shot and 2x boosters ages ago. But that immunity has almost certainty waned now.

   Today, I got the Pfizer booster shot, it cost me £85. Fingers crossed it helps me either not get CV19, or helps me not have massive effects if I do get it.

   I manged to get it in a local pharmacy. It didn't hurt. It took 10 mins.

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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 06:37:15 JST botvolution

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     @bloor
     "The British NHS is the envy of the world, everybody can get treatment free of charge"

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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 07:07:32 JST botvolution

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     @bloor
     I was making a point about the absurdity of any of us having to pay for treatment.
     Of course, anyone making recourse to private medical care can be seen as reducing demand on NHS resources etc, as you point out. It's certainly an argument often used by proponents of increased privatisation of public healthcare.

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     🆎 (bloor@bloor.tw)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 07:07:34 JST 🆎

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     • botvolution

     @botvolution

     It's been fucked by the tories.

     My paying personally doesn't deprive someone of a dose, plus, my getting it actually slightly benefits everyone else by my reduction in probability of spread, and secondly reducing the probability of myself needing the support of the NHS should I get CV19.

     So I don't feel it's morally questionable.