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by adevx
1711 days ago
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1. We know covid is extremely dangerous for a small segment of the population. It makes sense to get vaccinated if you are in that group. For healthy young individuals however, taking a new vaccine comes with unknown risks. There have been plenty of problems with vaccines [0] and one could argue only severe health issues will ever surface as being vaccine related. 2. We know covid poses an extremely low risk to children [1]
We also know natural immunity is stronger than vaccine induced immunity [2]. Therefor in my opinion, vaccinating children does not make sense. We simply have not enough data to know if there are long term issues with mRNA vaccines. Why not take cue from history and err on the safe side? [0] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history.... [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-57766717 [2] https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on... |
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Every instance of an infected individual in contact with a vaccinated individual is another roll of the dice for a breakthrough infection, which risks a new vaccine-resistant variant emerging. Just like you shouldn't prematurely stop a course of antibiotics because the remaining pathogens can develop resistance, you should not vaccinate only half the population because it gives the virus remaining in the unvaccinated population somewhere to thrive while continuously mutating and attacking the vaccinated until a resistance to the vaccine develops and we're back to 2020.
2. Children are a huge transmission vector. I know they're unlikely to have serious consequences from it, but they will pass it on to parents and grandparents who likely will. While yes, some most sources seem to say natural immunity is stronger, unless you suggest we put a bunch of children in a two wrek quarantine and infect the intentionally that hardly matters. If the infection is natural then the child will be spreading the virus around for days before they notice any symptoms (if they even do) and get quarantined. Congrats, now the child is slightly more immune that if you'd vaccinated them, but also 20 new people now have the infection.
And how can you say we don't have enough data - the whole point of the re-review is that we have now gathered more data and it indicates it's not that dangerous. What do you mean "take a cue from history"? We essentially wiped out many extremely dangerous diseases exactly by everyone getting vaccinated. Taking a cue from history, we should all get vaccinated ASAP to swiftly eradicate the virus before it gets a chance to mutate and become resistant.