Would you get your kid under 12 vaccinated? Thoughts? Opinions? Stats below
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For my youngest, I'll be weighing it against the risks of a bad reaction and the benefits of doing it (going maskless in school, I would hope).
ditto. i can't decide. sounding like they'll be available as early as halloween
Yes, all of my kids will be getting vaccinated. Being in school, they are the ones that are around the most people.
I found a great deal on HAZMAT's want me to send you the link? Getting tired of wrapping the little guy in bubble wrap every morning.
because of the low stats for hospitalization/deaths? not worth it? the balance is against
My kids are way past the age where I have to think about getting them vaccinated. The wife of friends of ours has a nephew who is the head of the Infectious Diseases department at one of the hospitals in Cincinnati. All his kids are vaccinated.
I'm a yes for a 7 & 9 year old. Same reason they get a flu shot & all the other vaccines on the schedule.
I would really rely on the advice of their doctor, whom I trust completely. I had my youngest (age 18) vaccinated, primarily so he wouldn't be quarantined and miss football games. He had COVID last year, so I was not overly concerned with him getting re-infected.
I have read where some doctors really feel that young children, with the risk being so low of severe cases, that natural immunities and anti-bodies would be preferred over vaccines.
I have read where some doctors really feel that young children, with the risk being so low of severe cases, that natural immunities and anti-bodies would be preferred over vaccines.
Wait, do you think they mean that building the natural immune system slowly with different "bugs" to fight, actually helps us all be stronger? Artificially boosting suppresses the million year old human immune system, so it will eventually "turn itself off"?
Maybe even vaccines perpetuate the weak causing the end of all humanity, by contaminating the gene pool. All of the Panaphobic seem to be worried about the short term (ME) and forget about the perpetuation of the "herd". In the calendar of time, this entire Plandemic will be setting next to 1 million other data sets on top of the point of a needle... in a hay stack.. in a field....
In my house we've started something we call Needle Night! Every Wednesday we get the little ones together and jab them with a couple different boosters and/or vaccines for various diseases to keep them safe and healthy. Tonight we're doing the 4th Pfizer booster shot (we bribe them afterward with a couple hours of hard core porn and Ice cream).
A lot of parents say it's not healthy to allow your kids to much porn time, but let's be honest sometimes us parents need a break and it's the only thing that will shut them up. Plus it works great as an incentive!
A lot of parents say it's not healthy to allow your kids to much porn time, but let's be honest sometimes us parents need a break and it's the only thing that will shut them up. Plus it works great as an incentive!
big difference between an infant, 3 yo, kindergartner and 12 yo. My kids are 3 and 6 and I’m not inclined to get them jabbed yet, but if they were older I’d be more likely to do so
Mine's 11. It'll be all the rage up at school. Need to prep for the school parking lot convos
Here's the adverse event data.
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Reactions & Adverse Events | CDC
Information about reactions and adverse events reported by recipients of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine
www.cdc.gov
The stats suggest to me that, whether or not you get your kids vaccinated, they are likely to be fine in the long run, but if you really want to crunch the numbers and be as risk-averse as possible, it looks like the vaccine is a good idea.
Edit: To clarify, it looks like serious Covid cases among children are extremely rare, and serious adverse side effects from the vaccine are also extremely rare, but the tie-breaker, if you really want to avoid the most possible risk, is that it is possible (although, again, very, very unlikely) that Covid will kill your kid, while it doesn't appear the vaccine will do that.
Low hospitalization, low death, less severe than in adults, natural immunity appears better than the shot, and I don't want to stick a 5, 8, 9, and 12 year old with a 1 year old shot that hasn't really had any long term effects sussed out.
If COVID was more deadly for children it would be different calculus IMO.
Tell them their kids are fat
Here's the adverse event data.
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Reactions & Adverse Events | CDC
Information about reactions and adverse events reported by recipients of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine
The stats suggest to me that, whether or not you get your kids vaccinated, they are likely to be fine in the long run, but if you really want to crunch the numbers and be as risk-averse as possible, it looks like the vaccine is a good idea.
Edit: To clarify, it looks like serious Covid cases among children are extremely rare, and serious adverse side effects from the vaccine are also extremely rare, but the tie-breaker, if you really want to avoid the most possible risk, is that it is possible (although, again, very, very unlikely) that Covid will kill your kid, while it doesn't appear the vaccine will do that.
I mean, those aren't great stats when you think about subjecting your kids (majority of cases) to a few days of discomfort and likely, inability to attend school. The stakes are a bit different than having to "work" from home modestly for an adult.
Secondly, how much would you imagine those side effects would increase if you are talking about much smaller kids?
The two most important days in your life are when you were born, and when you learned why.
Preliminary reporting is that they are comparable. Obviously, we'll have to wait for them to submit the official data.
As far as inconvenience, that might be something you want to balance, too. Certainly you want to spare your kids any discomfort you can. I was talking only about risk, which, for me, strongly emphasizes severe cases/reactions and deaths. And in that limited arena, it seems the vaccine is the way to go. Again, still recognizing that the odds that either the disease or the vaccine will dramatically harm your kid are very long, anyway.
My wife is an immunologist and wants our 11 year old to get the shot so that’s a yea from me.
what’s up boys? Been a little busy. Hope you all are keeping safe and sane.
what’s up boys? Been a little busy. Hope you all are keeping safe and sane.
I tend to think it's not really necessary (and have a hunch that my kids already have had it) But I'll get the opinions of the docs in my family and see what they do with their own kids.
There is evidence for getting the jab, Virtually none against getting it.
Hopefully parents do the right thing.
Hopefully parents do the right thing.
Dude, that’s why you keep the AirPod in your ear. I’m not starting my day off talking to some rando parent at her school. Rather have bamboo shoved under my nails.
Lol. There's a good crew of divorced dads up there I like a lot. At most events at least one will bring booze
I don’t know when it became acceptable for people to start talking to cashiers, service people, other parents in the school parking lot, etc. with air pods in your ears.
That’s another person you’re talking to, even if the sound is off and the noise canceling is off, show them the respect of removing crap from your ears before you talk to them.
Yeah, i'm not trying to talk to them. Ain't nobody on the other end of that Airpod
And yes, if they insist on talking to me I'll take it out.
I think his point was that he doesn't want to talk to them. And air pods are the most polite way to tell them. Me, I just tell them to fk off, like my grandparents did.
No thanks. I enjoy shopping while on conference calls or listening to music.
That's too bad. Your second wife could be right next to you in the Cereal aisle and you're too plugged in to notice.
LOL, one wife is enough! Shopping is cathartic when you are listening to some Electronic Chill
