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Israel Okays Third Covid Shot For Seniors
Israel is the first country to officially offer a third Covid shot to citizens:
I said this over a year ago.
— 🧞♂️Slumdog Billionaire Tech Support (@Shestovian) July 28, 2021
Covid booster shots will never end.
We live in the age of subscriptions.
Read Foster You’re Dead by Philip K Dick. https://t.co/yL8rnqkrbY
Israel’s prime minister on Thursday announced that the country would offer a coronavirus booster to people over 60 who have already been vaccinated.The announcement by Naftali Bennett makes Israel the first country to offer a third dose of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine to its citizens on a wide scale.
“I’m announcing this evening the beginning of the campaign to receive the booster vaccine, the third vaccine,” Bennett said in a nationally televised address. “Reality proves the vaccines are safe. Reality also proves the vaccines protects from severe morbidity and death. And like the flu vaccine that needs to be renewed from time to time, it is the same in this case.”
(Via PBS)
In his 1955 short story Foster, You're Dead, Philip K. Dick describes a materialistic society in which fear and anxiety is used to fuel an endless round of purchases to keep safe:
"[My father] says they sold people as many cars and washing machines and television sets as they could use. He says that NATs and bomb shelters aren't good for anything, so people can never get all they can use. He says factories can keep turning out guns and gas masks forever, and as long as people are afraid they'll keep paying for them because they think if they don't they might get killed, and maybe a man gets tired of paying for a new car every year, and stops, but he's never going to stop buying shelters to protect his children..."“You know, this game has one real advantage over selling people cars and TV sets. With something like this we have to buy. It isn’t a luxury, something big and flashy to impress the neighbors, something we could do without. If we don’t buy this we die. They always said the way to sell something was create anxiety in people. Create a sense of insecurity — tell them they smell bad or look funny. But this makes a joke out of deodorant and hair oil. You can’t escape this. If you don’t buy, they’ll kill you. The perfect sales-pitch. Buy or die — new slogan."
Even multiple vaccinations were sold:
Digging wouldn't do him any good. When the bombs came he'd be killed instantly. All the vaccination shots up and down his arms, on his thighs and buttocks, would be of no use. He had wasted his allowance money: Mike Foster wouldn't be alive to catch any of the bacterial plagues...
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