Renovare necesse est

I took the title of this blog from a dictum handed down by Plutarch (around 45-125 AD), "Navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse (seafaring is necessary, living is not). "

The first half of the sentence is well-known and supported; the second, the gruesome part, I learned while writing this blog. In quotations, the second half is often omitted. 

Pompey, the Roman commander Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106-48 BC), who was responsible for Rome's grain supply, shouted these words to his sailors when they refused to jump into their boat because of a storm.

In the New Testament, John (15:13) superelevated the idea behind Pompey's dictum, "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends. "

These days we must not forget those who lost and still risk their lives for the freedom of many at Kabul airport.

I digress. Renovare stands here for "to boost," referring to my imminent third vaccination. Here are the reasons:

As a person of age, my immune system is weak. I only had mild vaccination reactions following my two initial jabs, although, according to the experts, this does not necessarily indicate a low antibody concentration.

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My last and second shot was on January 27. Since then, the protective effect of the vaccination has decreased from 90% to less than 80%.

 
In Baden-Württemberg, a third, a booster vaccination, is recommended for those at risk and over 80. The vaccination center in Freiburg, still open until September 15, will offer inoculations starting September 1. 

Red Baron will try to get his third jab early to be well-protected on his way to Hamburg for his annual class reunion during the third weekend in September.

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The development of the pandemic worldwide due to the aggressive Delta variant is worrying. Although 60% of the people in Germany are fully vaccinated, the Corona incidence is on the rise, increasing the likelihood of infection further. Luckily breakthrough infections are still rare, and so far when infected. fully vaccinated persons only show mild disease progressions.

With the cold season arriving, the fourth wave will not ebb away. Those who are still unvaccinated are likely to infect themselves. If these people recover, they will eventually be happy to join the 2G crowd, those who are geimpft or genesen.

The state of Hamburg has allowed owners of restaurants, discos, and nightclubs to apply the 2G rule, i.e., accepting only people who are proven fully vaccinated or recovered. It is suitable to exempt those people from regulations for which there is no longer any medical justification. Those anti-vaxxers complaining about an alleged two-class society are discussing equality in misery.

It remains the fundamental right of every citizen to refuse corona vaccination because there is a right to be unreasonable. Still, these people should not be entitled to spoil the party for others.

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