Are kids under 5 ever getting vaccinated?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My elderly parents haven’t met my youngest child because of the risk of covid. We want to get them vaxxed asap.

And another reason we want them to get vaccinated is to lower the possibility of long term side effects. We are still leaning about what covid does to the brain but some studies show a loss of gray matter and it’s some worrisome stuff. I don’t want MY kids to be Guinea pigs for a new virus. If, god forbid, they get Parkinson’s in midlife and it turns out it was due to covid, they’ll be pissed we didn’t suffer a little more to protect them.

You realize the vaccine doesn’t stop transmission?

Yes, we know. The full story is longer and more complicated. They live very far away. We can’t get PCRs easily where they live. They are anxious about our traveling to see them too. There’s more but it’s not relevant for this board. My point was just that some parents of little kids are still making big sacrifices and plenty of people don’t appreciate that. So things like lifting mask mandates on airplanes do impact us - our kids are too little to mask, too little to vaccinate and may get stuck on a plane with you who isn’t taking precautions right now.

Have you been on a plane during COVID? People take off their masks to eat and drink for large portions if not the majority of the flight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My elderly parents haven’t met my youngest child because of the risk of covid. We want to get them vaxxed asap.

And another reason we want them to get vaccinated is to lower the possibility of long term side effects. We are still leaning about what covid does to the brain but some studies show a loss of gray matter and it’s some worrisome stuff. I don’t want MY kids to be Guinea pigs for a new virus. If, god forbid, they get Parkinson’s in midlife and it turns out it was due to covid, they’ll be pissed we didn’t suffer a little more to protect them.

You realize the vaccine doesn’t stop transmission?

Yes, we know. The full story is longer and more complicated. They live very far away. We can’t get PCRs easily where they live. They are anxious about our traveling to see them too. There’s more but it’s not relevant for this board. My point was just that some parents of little kids are still making big sacrifices and plenty of people don’t appreciate that. So things like lifting mask mandates on airplanes do impact us - our kids are too little to mask, too little to vaccinate and may get stuck on a plane with you who isn’t taking precautions right now.

Have you been on a plane during COVID? People take off their masks to eat and drink for large portions if not the majority of the flight.

+1. I’ve been on several flights where a lot of people were unmasked almost the whole flight. We flew with our under 5 a few times and didn’t get COVID during the height of omicron and delta (we did get it elsewhere). The ventilation is supposed to be very good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My elderly parents haven’t met my youngest child because of the risk of covid. We want to get them vaxxed asap.

And another reason we want them to get vaccinated is to lower the possibility of long term side effects. We are still leaning about what covid does to the brain but some studies show a loss of gray matter and it’s some worrisome stuff. I don’t want MY kids to be Guinea pigs for a new virus. If, god forbid, they get Parkinson’s in midlife and it turns out it was due to covid, they’ll be pissed we didn’t suffer a little more to protect them.

You realize the vaccine doesn’t stop transmission?

Yes, we know. The full story is longer and more complicated. They live very far away. We can’t get PCRs easily where they live. They are anxious about our traveling to see them too. There’s more but it’s not relevant for this board. My point was just that some parents of little kids are still making big sacrifices and plenty of people don’t appreciate that. So things like lifting mask mandates on airplanes do impact us - our kids are too little to mask, too little to vaccinate and may get stuck on a plane with you who isn’t taking precautions right now.

Have you been on a plane during COVID? People take off their masks to eat and drink for large portions if not the majority of the flight.

+1. I’ve been on several flights where a lot of people were unmasked almost the whole flight. We flew with our under 5 a few times and didn’t get COVID during the height of omicron and delta (we did get it elsewhere). The ventilation is supposed to be very good.

The filters are off during boarding and takeoff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My elderly parents haven’t met my youngest child because of the risk of covid. We want to get them vaxxed asap.

And another reason we want them to get vaccinated is to lower the possibility of long term side effects. We are still leaning about what covid does to the brain but some studies show a loss of gray matter and it’s some worrisome stuff. I don’t want MY kids to be Guinea pigs for a new virus. If, god forbid, they get Parkinson’s in midlife and it turns out it was due to covid, they’ll be pissed we didn’t suffer a little more to protect them.

You realize the vaccine doesn’t stop transmission?

Yes, we know. The full story is longer and more complicated. They live very far away. We can’t get PCRs easily where they live. They are anxious about our traveling to see them too. There’s more but it’s not relevant for this board. My point was just that some parents of little kids are still making big sacrifices and plenty of people don’t appreciate that. So things like lifting mask mandates on airplanes do impact us - our kids are too little to mask, too little to vaccinate and may get stuck on a plane with you who isn’t taking precautions right now.

Have you been on a plane during COVID? People take off their masks to eat and drink for large portions if not the majority of the flight.

+1. I’ve been on several flights where a lot of people were unmasked almost the whole flight. We flew with our under 5 a few times and didn’t get COVID during the height of omicron and delta (we did get it elsewhere). The ventilation is supposed to be very good.

The filters are off during boarding and takeoff.

Taxiing and unboarding, oops