If you weren’t a covid shot fan, dis you chg your mind? Did you give it to your teen?

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We are also hearing from more friends that kids are having brain fog or terrible fatigue weeks out from having covid. One boy we know has been really sick and missing a lot of school and a girl missed her whole season for her sports because of being unwell post-covid.

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DS and I haven’t had the last two Covid boosters but had all the other shots. We do get the flu shot every year, getting them done next week.

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No more Covid shots for my family. We usually get flu shots but we are very late this year to get them.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know if I should be answering this question because I wasn’t against the first Covid shot. But anyway…

I do not force my children to get flu or Covid vaccines when it’s not a pandemic and grandparents are dying left and right.

So… Since the original Covid vaccine, I get my Covid, flu and shingles (this year) because I don’t wanna get sick. I got it two weeks before Thanksgiving because that is the time I’m afraid of getting sick.

I do not force my teens to get any of the shots, but one of them has had Covid and/or the flu every holiday except for this past one since 2020.

My oldest has gotten Covid and the flu every fall since Covid.

So no I don’t force them to because they can get over Covid and the flu in 4-6 days.

My friends who have gotten Covid or the flu recently are down for about two weeks and I’m not gonna do that.

All my late 20s early 30s nieces and nephews get the shots cause they don’t want their kids dying.

I got both and got the flu Christmas Eve, which turned into bronchitis. Horrible. The rest of my family also vaxed did not get sick or recovered within a few days (with Tamiflu)

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Anonymous wrote:We are also hearing from more friends that kids are having brain fog or terrible fatigue weeks out from having covid. One boy we know has been really sick and missing a lot of school and a girl missed her whole season for her sports because of being unwell post-covid.

This. It is unclear who exactly will get long covid or serious covid. Protect yourself and your kids. The long covid specialist we had to consult for our college DD said in addition to vax, everyone should take paxlovid for covid infections.

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We have gotten flu shots every September for the past 15 years and haven't gotten the flu since. We got the first 3 Covid shots (in 2020 and early 2021) and no covid boosters since then. We've gotten covid a few times, but our bodies are primed to very easily fight it now. It is no longer a novel virus to us. The headache, fever, and blah feeling after the covid shots were actually worse than the 24 hours of scratchy throat and sniffles from catching covid. I feel very comfortable and think that the initial covid shots protected us well from a novel virus, and I see no need for any additional boosters. Our 2 sons are now 19 and 21.

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Only getting Novavax from now on. No side effects, unlike the Pfizer and Moderna

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are also hearing from more friends that kids are having brain fog or terrible fatigue weeks out from having covid. One boy we know has been really sick and missing a lot of school and a girl missed her whole season for her sports because of being unwell post-covid.

This. It is unclear who exactly will get long covid or serious covid. Protect yourself and your kids. The long covid specialist we had to consult for our college DD said in addition to vax, everyone should take paxlovid for covid infections.

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The Covid vaccine awakened herpes after 20 years. Shingles, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Always got covid and flu shots for everyone, didn't this year, daughter has had covid and influenza A and missed 12 days of school in 5 weeks. Deep regret over not getting these. We all got covid.

Same. My kid got both in the same month in January 2022. Had shots for both. Haven’t gotten more covid shots but do get the flu shot though haven’t gotten around to it this year for myself or one kid since he had whooping cough and wasn’t allowed to get it.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know if I should be answering this question because I wasn’t against the first Covid shot. But anyway…

I do not force my children to get flu or Covid vaccines when it’s not a pandemic and grandparents are dying left and right.

So… Since the original Covid vaccine, I get my Covid, flu and shingles (this year) because I don’t wanna get sick. I got it two weeks before Thanksgiving because that is the time I’m afraid of getting sick.

I do not force my teens to get any of the shots, but one of them has had Covid and/or the flu every holiday except for this past one since 2020.

My oldest has gotten Covid and the flu every fall since Covid.

So no I don’t force them to because they can get over Covid and the flu in 4-6 days.

My friends who have gotten Covid or the flu recently are down for about two weeks and I’m not gonna do that.

All my late 20s early 30s nieces and nephews get the shots cause they don’t want their kids dying.

I got both and got the flu Christmas Eve, which turned into bronchitis. Horrible. The rest of my family also vaxed did not get sick or recovered within a few days (with Tamiflu)

Glad you got the shot so that you didn’t have a worse outcome. You should be thankful you all got it.

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Anonymous wrote:The Covid vaccine awakened herpes after 20 years. Shingles, too.

lol

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I am pleased this is now a personal choice decision just like the flu shots. Personally everyone in my family got the flu shot in the Fall and the Covid shot just recently. I don’t want to deal with sick teens missing school if I can prevent it, and I prefer not to get sick myself. There are plenty of other respiratory viruses as well as GI ones circulating so plenty of chances to get sick so am happy to try and limit what I can while living a public social life. My son in the fall got the stupid pneumonia variant that required an urgent care visit plus zpack as well as multiple missed school days so that was enough for me.

People hate being forced to do things and since COVID like Flu is a rapidly mutating virus, the vaccines will not eliminate it the way the polio vaccine was able to eliminate the spread of polio. So my personal choice is to protect myself and family as much as possible but I very much think to each their own.

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I got the first 2 for my teen because at that point I still thought that vaccination would get us out of this, plus social pressure (teens who didn’t get it back then were semi ostracized) and when it came out for my 11 year I only got it bc of the aforementioned social pressure.

None of us including me or husband got any boosters and will never get anymore. What a bunch of nonsense that whole thing ended up being.

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I'm surprised people are reporting side effects from either shot. My kids and I get both shots annually and never have any side effects, other than sore arm.