My bf got a covid booster yesterday, has a fever, head ache, aching yesterday and worse today. He decided he wanted a booster and got one.

Could communication on boosters be any worse? I mean communication is pretty clear if over 65, or with severe immunocompromise, but otherwise could communication be any worse? Oh you can only get it if you have certain conditions, but then everything and the kitchen sink is thrown in as a "condition". Last I heard depression was a condition the qualified for a booster. However seriously you think mental health should be taken, there is no known link with depression and covid risk that most anyone is aware of. Where is the science? Explain yourselves CDC.

I think it's REALLY a back-door way of making covid boosters pretty much available FOR EVERYONE, without doing so because it would be unseemly or something, while the rest of the world lacks them or because people are still refusing the first shot. Or because we still have supply issues, only I don't think we have supply issues. Lay your cards on the table CDC, FDA, Biden admin. So it's maybe unseemly to prioritize U.S. citizens but you have decided to anyway. Then actually do so, not this half-hearted stuff, @#$# or get off the pot. Punting all decisions down to individuals and making sure the buck only ever stops there does not make you a leader.

Meanwhile being that boosters may produce a few days of illness, they are their own discouragement too. Especially if you can't even figure out if the CDC thinks you should get them today or not, but then come to think of it I have been kind of depressed ....