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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for posting this OP.

[b]It's so easy to get caught up in the race to be most cautious among DC area parents (we would never do daycare, oh yeah well we're avoiding all air travel, oh yeah well we wear masks outdoors always, etc.)[/b], that sometimes I lose touch with the facts. Or at least the facts we know so far. This whole thing requires some humility and acknowledging there are no perfect decisions, but we can at least try to be as informed as possible - and this is good level-headed information.

I don't envy parents of older children making the vaccine decision. As the parent of a very young child, I too will be looking closely at both the European recommendations and whether the US grants an EUA. I was first in line to be vaccinated and I am open to vaccinating my child, but it pains me to think I may have to vaccinate her not because she's at risk, but because not enough adults would step up and do it.

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The bolded is so important.  In our neck of the woods, being the most cautious correlates directly with a crap-ton of moral superiority and judgment of those who aren’t the most cautious, and I’m sick of that dynamic.  Not going above and beyond health regulations doesn’t make me a COVID-denier, and frankly, there’s something to be said for not contributing to the shaming and divisiveness around this issue.

I actually think vaccinating older kids (12+) is more straightforward than younger ones, because the data suggest they’re more at risk from COVID.  We’ll vaccinate our kids (all three younger than 10) when it’s available, but I also haven’t seen *any* data suggesting COVID presents a substantial risk to them, even unvaccinated.  We can’t keep kids home forever.[/quote]

+ 1 billion. [/quote]

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