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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No European country recommends Covid boosters for kids, so no. The US is an outlier with their indiscriminate recommendation, which is clearly driven by Pfizer lobbying.[/quote]

What are your thoughts on the US auto lobby?[/quote]

[b]How is this relevant here? [/b]I'm sure it's strong, lol.[/quote]

The same people that are against European innovations such as functioning public transportation and universal healthcare (they’re socialists!  It would never work here! Etc.) suddenly citing European policies and recommendations when it comes to their anti vaccination beliefs just strikes me as funny.[/quote]

Ha! I figured that was what you were trying to imply. Sorry to break it to you, but I am from Europe, a liberal, firmly in favor of public transportation and universal healthcare, currently losing sleep over the prospect of Trump winning the election, and YET I think American liberals have been crazy in their approach to Covid, particularly school closures, masks, and vaccines. No other country has politicized Covid to this degree, and that you still assume that someone who thinks that teens don't need Covid boosters must be a right-wing "anti-vaxxer" only proves my point. Good luck, America. This shit is what might win Trump the election.[/quote]

Yes, people who are against routine vaccinations recommended by the CDC (as the Covid boosters are) are a segment of the anti-vaxxer crowd.  You have more in common with the Trump supporters than you think.

Vaccinations shouldn’t be politicized, I agree with you there; it is you and your ilk who are firmly against official public health policy recommendations who are the folks politicizing it, however.  (“But I did muh own research!” Yeah, we get it.)[/quote]

European PP here. This is my first time back to this thread, and I see others picked up the argument with you last night. Not sure it's worth discussing this with you further, since you clearly have a very fixed, partisan, uninformed and parochial opinion on these matters.

Just this: The American CDC recommending them doesn't make the Covid vaccines "routine" vaccinations; putting them on the childhood vaccine schedule was a mistake, out of line with all other developed countries. The argument that this is for cost reasons is preposterous. It is a fact that there is no good evidence to support annual boosters, or even any Covid vaccinations for children, and European public health authorities, even those who initially recommended the shots for kids, acknowledge this.

Call me an anti-vaxxer all you want - our whole family had three shots (although I now think vaccinating my kids against Covid, and especially allowing myself to be coerced into giving them the third due to a camp mandate, was a mistake). I went into this with a strong pro-vaccine bias, and was eager to get the vaccine for my husband and myself in 2021. We even drove all the way out to the Eastern Shore to get it as early as possible. My kids are up to date on all traditional vaccines, including HPV. I do think the way the Covid shots have been pushed so indiscriminately has harmed trust in other vaccines, but I still strongly believe in routine childhood vaccinations. But sure, I'm an anti-vaxxer. I don't care if you and your ilk call me that, but I do need to point out how absurd it is.

Lastly, to say that anyone critical of non-evidence based public health recommendations is the one politicizing them is pure projection and betrays a profound lack of self-awareness on the part of the American Left. As I said, good luck America! Both sides are down their own rabbit holes. And for the record, I still think the right-wing rabbit holes are worse, but on Covid, American liberals aren't far behind.[/quote]

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