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Thursday 19 August 2021

Booster Booster



COVID-19: Health Secretary Sajid Javid 'confident' coronavirus booster jabs will begin next month

The health secretary says the booster programme will begin with the most vulnerable, although ministers are still waiting for the final advice from experts on plans to give out a third COVID vaccine dose.

Surely for those who have already had two vaccinations, this would be a booster booster, the second having been the booster. Later we'll be encouraged to have a booster booster booster.

5 comments:

Sam Vega said...

That would give the game away, though. They'll call it something like augmentative inoculation, or progressive vaccination.

James Higham said...

Second word for Javid, I feel, is Off.

A K Haart said...

Sam - to my mind the prospect of a second booster has given the game away already, but you may be right, 'augmentative inoculation' does sound better.

James - and I'll make a wild guess at the first.

Penseivat said...

First jab - "These old buggers are still alive."
Second Jab - " Some of them have popped their clogs, but there are still too many left."
Third jab - "Don't worry, darling. It's all for your own good."
Fourth jab - "Gotcha."

A K Haart said...

Penseivat - to my mind it isn't easy to see what it behind it all because politicians only look as far as the next election.