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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really think public health is making a mistake by saying everyone needs to be vaccinated in schools regardless of vax status. I am very hesitant to get my kids vaccinated because they have extremely low risk if they contract COVID and all the adults in our life are vaccinated. BUT if it meant my kid go maskless at school, I would run to get them vaccinated. Now I think I’ll wait until there’s more data. I am very wary because the US and Israel seem to be the only countries going full steam ahead on getting kids vaxxed. Even countries with good supply, like the UK, are holding off. That makes me nervous, especially when kids are very, very low risk of complication if they COVID. I do realize we don’t know the long-term effects of COVID, but we also don’t know the long-term effects of the vaccine. SO i would personally wait to get my kids vaxxed unless there was a real, tangible incentive to doing so — like being able to take off their masks. 
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You are being selfish. My child is immunocompromised and needs your child to get vaxxed (once approved) so my child does not get seriously sick. The longer this virus circles around, even if not killing, the more it can mutate. It's about stopping community spread and not just self protection.[/quote]

The last year and a half+ has been so many soft fools espousing a position on the pandemic that is basically "it inconveniences me personally, so I'm going to ignore it and anyone who tries to do something about it, well that also inconveniences me as well"

So here's delta and soon to be epsilon? [/quote]

I think the point is that there should be incentives to get your kid vaxxed - like being able to forgo the mask. Humans are selfish, that's why I agree it's a bad public health move to not incentivize students to get vaccinated. And I don't buy that it's not enforceable. You have to prove your vaccinated to register for school. COVID may not be mandatory but it will show in the health records and students will be told to wear a mask unless vaccinate. Students that wish to take their mask off will need to self-identify --perhaps they can wear a bracelet. No one will be forced to disclose status.....unless they want to take their mask off![/quote]

This has no scientific basis you all.

The vaccine does NOT stop transmission of covid infection.  It can stop symptoms.

The vaccine is NOT 90-100% effective at preventing symptoms of Delta mutation.  Some are saying efficacy in the 60s.

Would you use an IUD or birth control pill with 65% efficacy?

The primary strains emerging are Delta and Alpha.

So, back to 2020 logic, isn't it "selfish" to refuse to wear a mask and put others at risk of death?

In 2020, the worst strain had maybe 273x the viral load.  In 2021, Delta has 1000x.

Right now, case numbers are almost zero, okay.  But that can change.  
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