Quote (ofthevoid @ Aug 10 2021 04:25pm)
Because cold like symptoms are not threatening enough to vaccinate them against it. If the death rate was higher I'd consider it. I honestly would want my healthy kid to catch the rona and develop an immune system response antibodies versus vaccinating them for something like this. I'm of the mind that natural responses with the least amount of interference are ideal. Like if we exclude the kids that had underlying conditions (which is most of those 349) the death rate would be extremely tiny, even smaller than the .001% or so it is now including those kids.
The other thing about vaccines is, they are a fairly recent phenomena. I really don't know what the impact of some vaccines are long term, like over the spans of decades or generations. We can't really know the full extent of vaccines when we've only been doing it for what 100 years? That doesn't mean I'm rejecting vaccines, but i'd like to do with the least amount possible. Like my daughter, she's 1, she got all of her routine vaccines but some of the other ones like flu I personally think she can live without. If the Covid death rate spikes I have no problem with her getting it but for now, nah.
I mean, the way the COVID vaccine works is pretty cool. You should look into it (mRNA based vaccines) because I imagine that almost all vaccines will use this technology in the future (including the flu vaccine). Your body is going to react the same way to the vaccine as it would the actual disease because of how the technology works. That's why it's strange to hear you say that you'd rather them "catch the rona" as opposed to "vaccinating them." With this type of vaccine, you're training your body to attack something very specific without the downside of the virus mutating. This is basically a game changer and the world is going to be very different in 20 years because of this technology.
Quote (Black XistenZ @ Aug 10 2021 04:38pm)
That's the entire point: for young children and adolescents, the risk from covid is so incredibly small that it is of roughly the same magnitude as the also incredibly small risk of severe side effects from the vaccines (e.g. myocarditis). Hence, for children, it is not a given anymore that the benefits outweigh the risk. To the best of my knowledge, neither the WHO nor the British or German health authorities have issued an unconditional recommendation for vaccinations of kids younger than 16 for this very reason. France and Israel have such a recommendation. Not sure about the U.S.
CDC recommends everyone 12+ get it:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations/adolescents.htmlRight now, they are doing trials for 5-11 year olds so I imagine that the CDC will recommend 5+ become vaccinated if they are successful.