Since 2019 there has been one thing we’ve all been focused on, and that is the Corona Virus. COVID 19 was spreading rapidly across the world, luckily doctors created a vaccine to slow down the number of deaths that were caused by COVID. Even with the vaccine, you are still able to contract the virus; however, you should have milder symptoms. Now that there are new variants of the virus (Delta and Omicron), doctors strongly encourage us to be fully vaccinated. This means two doses and a booster. Although there isn’t a specific booster for Delta, studies show that the booster weakens both the delta variant (0mnicon is too soon to speculate). Many people still don’t want to get it.

I believe everybody should get the booster because schools are starting to consider masks optional. Since only 60.7% of the population is vaccinated, this could  cause of the world to go back into lockdown, chances for even more deaths. I don’t want to go back to doing online school, staring at the computer all day, and not socializing with any of my friends. Even though I am fully vaccinated, I am still worried about getting COVID.  I am a basketball player and if I get COVID I wouldn’t be able to play in any games  in our season, My team would have to sit out for 14 days and this could have a negative effect on our season. I would also have to isolate myself from my entire family to make sure they didn’t get it.

I understand why  people have concerns with the vaccines. Most are concerned with the different side effects, such as pain & swelling in the injection site, fatigue, muscle pain, headache, fever, chills, and nausea. People are also worried about how long it would take the vaccine and booster to work. I agree the two-week time period is too long for the vaccine to start working, I still think people should get both, the vaccine and booster. Getting the vaccine would be a lot better than being in the hospital on a ventilator or maybe even dying. Look at it like this, if people don’t get vaccinated, what would the world look like in the future?