[mattlondon]

> Per capita COVID-19 deaths are negligible in children

That is not going to make you feel any better if it is your kid who is one of these "negligible" deaths.

If there is anything you can do as a parent to reduce the risk to your kids, of course you are going to do it (especially if it is a no-brainer quick simple low-risk and cheap like a vaccination). Kids get all sorts of vaccinations and injections starting for their first few weeks of life (and even minutes - they get a vitamin K shot immediately after birth in the UK) , why should covid be any different?

[tomp]

> That is not going to make you feel any better if it is your kid who is one of these "negligible" deaths.

Why not ban cars then as well?

[caskstrength]

I would definitely get a vaccine against traffic accidents, if such existed.

[readthenotes1]

There is a remedy, of course, but you may not appreciate the side-effects

[tjansen]

> That is not going to make you feel any better if it is your kid who is one of these "negligible" deaths.

True, but that's not a good argument. There's not enough data on the vaccine yet to be rule out the possibility that kids could also die from the vaccine, in some very rare cases. The death rate for kids infected with Covid is so low that we need a lot more data in vaccination studies to determine whether Covid or the vaccine has a higher death rate.

(FWIW, my kids are vaccinated - but not because of the death rate, but because of long covid)

[luckylion]

> If there is anything you can do as a parent to reduce the risk to your kids, of course you are going to do it

No you're not. Having your kid wear a helmet 24/7 would reduce their risk. But it will be reduced by such a tiny amount that it's really not worth the trouble.

[mattlondon]

There is not a global pandemic killing millions and which might kill your kid that can be prevented by wearing a helmet.

[luckylion]

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Don't bother with the helmet, the kid might die from Corona? Don't bother with Corona, the kid might get hit by a car (more likely than dying from Corona, actually).

There's simply a tiny improvement of safety, too small to care. Of course, this changes if the child belongs to a risk group that has a much higher chance of getting seriously ill and dying. Much like it totally makes sense to make your kid wear a helmet while biking, because the risk is much, much higher at that time.

[anthonypasq]

youre really not getting it

[jtc331]

What if it doesn’t reduce risk though?

[tragictrash]

You need to leave and stop pushing your anti-vaccine misinformation. Every Post in here for you is a what if based on zero facts. You should know when to stop talking.

[jtc331]

No. Clearly you don’t read my comments since I regularly note facts from around the world.

Researchers in England found in the first 12 months of COVID only 25 COVID deaths for under age 18. That is an incredibly small number. That level of risk is so low that any honest person would have to ask the question whether reducing risk is actually possible without worse side effects (and that’s not just for vaccines — I mean for any intervention including non-pharmaceutical interventions).

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01897-w

[tragictrash]

I'm sorry, I must have misread your username when I posted that, I had meant to send that to jtdev.

[jtc331]

No problem!