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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't share your husband's opinion about what is safe and what isn't, but obviously lots of people on this website do and since they are stuck inside they have plenty of time to post.  We are eating indoors, playing indoors and doing pretty much everything that we did before the pandemic right now.

Also with community spread so low and the risk to children being super low in general my thoughts are that the FDA won't approve the vaccines for kids younger than 12 for a long time, if ever.  It just doesn't make sense to vaccinate kids, especially boys, if there is a 1 in 250,000 risk of heart issues due to the vaccines and a 1 in 5,000,000 risk of them getting COVID and then having a serious reaction to it.  If the community spread were a lot lot higher, it might make sense, but right now there are just a handful of cases a day in the entire DC area.[/quote]

These numbers are not accurate, but even if they were...

I do NOT understand why people still cannot wrap their heads around community responsibility during a viral pandemic. Viral. That means that even IF the risk of a bad outcome of a disease were lower than the risk of a bad outcome from a vaccine for an individual, the overall risk of that individual spreading the disease to others-- not to mention potentially incubating variants-- is likely still exponentially higher.

Let's say the risk of a bad outcome from a vaccine were 10%, and from the disease, only 1% (this is not remotely the case, but for example). If the average person spreads it to 50 downstream (not necessarily directly), many of whom are more vulnerable, the risk of at least one bad outcome in the community is much higher. This is why we shoot for herd immunity, or close to it-- something that leaving kids unvaccinated would definitely preclude.

It's true that this assumes the child will get COVID, which isn't guaranteed. But it's also true that the vaccine is not actually worse than the disease, so.

I'm not living in my basement, I take risks. But it's not all about each individual's risk-- my goodness! It's a virus! That spreads! Where have people been for 18+ months?

This logic-- the vaccine is worse than the disease for my individual kid-- is exactly the same logic that is bringing measles back. The vaccine is not higher risk, even for the individual AND you lose herd immunity and the calculus changes, even in terms of individual risk, when you stop vaccinating. 
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Yes, preach!  I posted above that I agree with OP, but everyone get your damn kids vaccinated once it's approved.[/quote]

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