Possibly they're making both appointments at the same time, rather than having the first one then planning the second one?

Don't jinx it!

That's what happened to us, registered Friday, got SMS yesterday with 2 appointments 4 weeks apart (each).

Tom

Having thought about it - that’s the conclusion I’ve come to too. He’s just mid-understood (despite it being his native language ) Can’t see the Swiss suddenly not following the rules!

I agree.
It doesn’t make sense that they would deviate from the recommendation like that. They have no idea about the effects of a double dose and it could be dangerous.

Great, don't forget to get your autumn booster and flu shot there too. Be prepared for a mild body reaction though

Or maybe they but one in your RH calf and one in LH Deltoid and wait for them to meet in the middle.

I take back my comments about SG - now have appointment for 29th May.

No second appointment though, seems many cantons are sending out both appointments and even doing the very simple "same day and time X weeks later" approach, others like SG not.

Oh gosh, I would love that ... that way I could go to the pub already this week! hehe

Doesn't seem right - I read about an Italian woman who was accidentally given 6 doses at once, was completely fine.

It should be optional because we live in free open democratic societies where people have the choice as to what they put into their bodies.

And it is.

Thankfully! This has actually been the most surprising/shocking aspect of this whole pandemic. Not the dodgy science, not the state sanctioned media scaremongering, not the reversal of democratic norms, not the governmental overreach. It's actually the revelation that there are a significant number of people out there perfectly willing to turn on their fellow tax paying citizens for some perceived greater good or because of instructions they've been given by people in authority.

We've known this is possible/normal from the Milgram experiments, or to go full Godwin, from the Holocaust. Seeing it played out on a day to day basis, with a significant number of people calling for people to be forced to be vaccinated, is nothing short of horrifying.

Would not be the first time, it is not so uncommon as you think.
It was only in 1972 that the U.S. government decided to stop mandatory vaccination against smallpox; which disease is now eradicated.

Every state in the United States requires children to be vaccinated before attending school, also the Canadian provinces Ontario, New Brunswick, and Manitoba. Mandatory vaccination policies also exist in Latvia, Slovenia, Italy, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Belgium.

The Holocaust ... give me a f---ing break

And people, in exercising that choice, are also deciding whether they want to help society as a whole, especially those less fortunate than themselves, or as you are advocating, have the choice in choosing the selfish option.

To quote from the Bible:

PHILIPPIANS 2:4

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

US vaccine take up by groups

Never have had a flu shot, and never will.

Tom

Shall I put it in bold or capitals next time so you have an excuse to focus on THE HOLOCUAST rather than its relation to the more general point that was being made?

Mercifully the Swiss ethics commission have unequivocally advised that there should be no compulsory vaccinations. So we can leave those advocating this dangerously offensive guff to message boards, forums and social media

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/ethics-...tions/46366312

Up to you really

Because the bar is rightly set higher for prophylaxis in the healthy than for treatments of sick people who stand to gain directly from the therapy. Serious side effects, though rare, do exist. See the thrombosis with AZ and J&J, and narcolepsy with Pandemrix. I‘ve personally seen a weird inflammatory reaction, far removed from the injection site of the common or garden flu shot, in a nurse. It all went away. So she was brave enough to try again a few years later. It happened again. I no longer freely give RNs the doubtful benefit of my considered but very pro-vax medical opinion about flu vaccination rates in hospital staff (best guess MDs 2/3, nursing staff 1/3).

The other issue is that in a society like ours, making shots compulsory would generate resistance. There have been several studies taht showed lower compliance rates with compulsory vaccinations. (Someone mentioned they are a prerequisite for school attendance in some US states - don‘t anti-vaxxers just go in for homeschooling? I‘d be more concerned about the homeschooled offspring of anti-vaxxers than about a few unvaccinated kids in public schools, where they get a chance to learn their parents‘ stance is open to questioning, and a more varied peer group.