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Tetanus needing every 10 years is more or less a myth. Many parts of the world do not require top-ups on it, and do just fine off the one.
It depends on what you're doing.
If you're an office worker with no hands-on hobbies and hands soft like a baby, then, no, you don't need a tetanus shot. Same if you don't have pets that walk in mud and dirt and then scratch you (I mean farm dogs and stuff, not city pups who get bathed at least once in a while.)
If you're a farmer, construction worker, or anyone else who has a high chance of getting a dirty scratch (it isn't just "rusty nails"), you might want that top-up every so often, just to be sure. Lockjaw sucks, I've known people whov'e gotten it.
Then that's even worse for Covid, because every six months is just a huge red flag.
Want an even better one?
There's, any given year, about 4-6 major dominant flu strains. They are global, meaning by definition influenza is a multiple-strain global pandemic. They mutate constantly, like any virus does. We get just one shot per year even if we're diligently getting shots.
"Every six months", bah. What's the mortality rate of re-infected COVID people who recovered naturally? Even the ones who got it a full year ago?
Yeah, and those are relatively optional too, I haven't taken a flu vaccine in ten years without any ill effects.