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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question. Why would you vaccinate your kid? It’s an experimental treatment that does not prevent transmission. Kids are more likely to die of the flu. I’m vaccinated (older & chubby here), before I get shouted down as an anti-vaxxer. [/quote]

My DH and I are very hesitant about getting our kid vaccinated.  They are still under 5 so we don’t have to worry about pressure yet.  I work at a high school with high (self-reported) vaccination and booster rates and omicron ripped through the school.  All of the kids just sat at home for 10 days, maybe feeling a bit sick for one or two of them.  Vaccines just don’t seem to prevent spreading the disease in the way I would want it to before giving my very young child a brand new shot.  [/quote]

My nephew who is 6 and vaxxed was sick for 10 days with it. He infected his parents, and they infected friends. All boosted. All sick for a week, and missed a lot of work. A colleague and distant cousin just got out of the hospital both unvaxxed. One was in 10 days, another 14 and both still suffering and on supplemental oxygen.

So, not everyone is having mild reactions, but they could be a whole heck of a lot worse. Vaccines are doing their job. I really don’t understand wariness for a vaccine that hundreds of millions have taken. I get not doing for political reasons, but not wariness.[/quote]

My wariness is my child is very young and this feels like it will be pushed through for political reasons, not health reasons.  Anyone who says differently hasn’t been paying attention to the approval process for vaccines.

I am not worried about my child getting seriously I’ll from Covid anymore than I am worried about her getting very ill from the flu or pneumonia.[/quote]

I’m in the medical field.  The game has changed for the approval process for the vaccine with these new therapies.  You don’t need time to grow things like the old way.  You now have a more efficient process where your own cells make the antigen.  It’s much more of a natural process and much lower risk of adverse effects, allergic reactions, etc….
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