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by LurkingPenguin 1684 days ago
SARS-CoV-2 is basically already endemic.

In the US, since the start of the pandemic, the total number of deaths "involving COVID-19" in children aged 17 or younger is 595. During the same period, total deaths in this age group amount to 61,523.[1]

The vaccine does not provide sterilizing immunity. Fully vaccinated individuals can become infected and transmit the virus to others.

Based on these facts, can you explain how vaccinating children will "end" the pandemic and make children significantly more safe?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Se...
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dazag 1684 days ago
I still don't understand how people don't get it. I don't think is worth the risk for old people either (it's my opinion guys, please don't bury me). But for children? They suffer way more with influenza and they don't get shots... don't you really understand that? Covid has Flu like symptoms, but at the beggining and maybe still, many covid patients were dying from something else but gave positive in a PCR... C'mon.. we can do better
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LurkingPenguin 1684 days ago
> I still don't understand how people don't get it.

I've come to believe that it's all political and ideological at this point. There is indeed a contingent of crazy people who don't think COVID is real, believe in wild conspiracy theories about COVID, oppose any preventative measure (be it masking, social distancing or vaccination), etc.

And then there is another, larger contingent of people who believe that if they acknowledge any limitations of the vaccines, the minimal utility of rushing to vaccinate children, etc., they are letting the crazies win.

So now we're stuck in a Twilight Zone where the vaccinated have to be protected from the unvaccinated, vaccinating the group least likely to be affected by COVID is promoted as the latest key to ending the pandemic, "natural immunity" has gone from being accepted as basic science to treated like pseudoscience, and everybody who is vaccinated will probably be pressured to boost every 6 months no matter how much protection they continue to be told they have against hospitalization and death.

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ceejayoz 1684 days ago
> They suffer way more with influenza and they don't get shots...

Children absolutely get flu shots. It's recommended annually for anyone over six months old.

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