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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, but it would be a good idea to get one. [/quote]

Maybe? I have gotten all the vaccines and boosters and increasingly am unsure of their utility. Whereas I totally understand the point of the flu vaccine even beyond helping prevent me from getting the flu (widespread flu vaccine uptake does seem to diminish the spread of the flu generally). It is not clear the Covid vaccine has the same impact due to its increasingly mild presentation and the speed with which it continues to mutate.

This is one reason we have never gotten a vaccine for other cold viruses, even though like Covid, colds can be dangerous for immunosuppressed people, and the very young and very old. The cost/benefit doesn't work. It did for the earliest strains of Covid which were still killing people at alarmingly high rates, but those rates decline more and more each year even as the mutation of the virus makes it harder to put out vaccines that can keep up. And unlike the flu, which follows a predictable season, Covid (like cold viruses) is year round with smaller spikes during cold weather months.

I know you aren't supposed to say things like this because for some reason people are still defining themselves based on their "belief" in Covid and the threat it poses, but the threat (which was very, very real before) is no longer clearly defined.

I'll still get a vaccine if it's recommended by my doctor, but if it's made optional I will take that to mean "it doesn't matter" and skip it. Same for my kid.

I've never actually ever been asked if my DCPS student has a Covid vaccine (they do, plus a booster). For Covid test results, yes, I've never had to verify the vaccine with anyone from the district.[/quote]

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