National and local government health agencies are in the midst of a renewed campaign to emphasize the importance of getting the newest batch of vaccines developed to protect individuals against the harshest possible consequences from the Covid-19 virus.

And while this message will fall on deaf ears for those who have completely checked out mentally of any talk regarding this persistent disease’s influence in our lives, those who are still vulnerable to the potential consequences of Covid would be doing themselves a great service to try and change their thought process on how we interact with the release of new vaccines for Covid now, and moving forward.

Each year, a new shot aimed to prevent the worst outcomes from the common flu is developed and given out to millions of Americans without consequence or controversy. We have now entered a world where the same is beginning to happen with the Covid virus.

Viruses mutate and change, and therefore so must our approach to safeguarding against them. These aren’t “boosters” anymore, they are updated, new vaccines specifically developed to target the current variants of the virus causing the most illnesses at the current time period.

Incorporating a new Covid vaccine into our regular healthcare regimen is also pretty easy to accomplish. Covid vaccines are safe to receive at the same time as the seasonal flu vaccine, so there is no logical reason not to simply immunize yourself to both sicknesses at the same time, and then forget about it until it’s time to do it again.

The conspiracy that Covid vaccines harbor some kind of unseen or unreported danger — while admittedly fueled in some cases by healthy skepticism over the speed at which they were developed, and due to conflicting information communicated by governments during a rollout period of utter chaos — have been shown through unbiased, time-tested evidence to be nothing but fear-based fantasies drummed up and parroted by those already distrusting of government institutions.

The risk of getting a serious bout of Covid and suffering its effects, or passing it along to an immunocompromised friend or family member, so wholly outweighs the risk of getting a simple vaccination that it isn’t even worth arguing over anymore. The research is concluded, and a nearly-three-year trial period featuring multiple billions (with a ‘B’) of consequence-free injections around the world has proven it so.

With fall and winter coming up, we’ll be back in the thick of sickness season soon. Do yourself and your loved ones a favor and get the shot.