A buddy just told me that his 3-year-old had to get a Covid shot so she could start pre school. Gut-wrenching. They live in Pittsburgh.
Me: Yes Wejo: No.
I don't get why it would be "gut-wrenching" either way. Literally billions of people have gotten the shot. Yes we don't know the long term impacts - nor do we know the long term impact of Covid but odds are it's not going to impact your 3 year old too much either way
No, they had Covid in 2020 and were completely asymptomatic (family had it so we tested). I couldn’t justify giving them a vaccine for a virus that doesn’t make them sick.
A buddy just told me that his 3-year-old had to get a Covid shot so she could start pre school. Gut-wrenching. They live in Pittsburgh.
Me: Yes Wejo: No.
I don't get why it would be "gut-wrenching" either way. Literally billions of people have gotten the shot. Yes we don't know the long term impacts - nor do we know the long term impact of Covid but odds are it's not going to impact your 3 year old too much either way
Should it be mandated? HELL no.
It is gut-wrenching because a Covid shot is so unnecessary for young kids. Most people I know, even the lib-leaning ones, have refused to give the Covid vax to their small children. Some sanity exists.
You say billions have gotten the vax. We could quibble about that figure, but mass, disproportionate deaths did not occur in unvaxxed parts of the world. They didn't even occur right here in America. The Amish are famously anti-vax (like, for real anti-vax, not just anti-Covid vax). The Amish weren't wiped out by Covid. In fact, they were up, running and back to normal by late spring 2020. 2021 was their best year ever being open for business when so much, particularly in Pennsylvania, was shut down.
If the unvaxxed Amish were disproportionately dying of Covid, you could absolutely bank on the fact the New York Times would be dancing on their graves in uproarious glee.
Africa is almost completely unvaxxed. Mass Covid deaths there? No. India? No. South America? No.
My wife and I got the shot. My kids did not. Why? We did a risk / reward analysis based upon all the information available to us at the time. The risk for kids is minimal. Both have had COVID at this point (as have the majority of the population) and neither have had much more than a sniffle from it. The unfortunate reality is typically vaccines take about 10 years to come to market. The mRNA vaccines were brought to market in under a year. I am sitting on a plane about to head home from a funeral for my ten year old niece. She received an injury from a routine vaccine as an infant, and required a lifetime of medical care, was never able to walk or talk and recently passed away after the seizures shut down her digestive tract and she slowly starved to death.
The truth is, since the formation of Vaccine Court, public information about vaccine injuries has been suppressed by the government, so many are left to suffer outside of the public eye. The system is set up to minimize the amount the government has to pay out (in order to keep vaccines cheap) by shrouding the tort system in secrecy. The CMICP that oversees COVID vaccine injuries has only admitted guilt in one case this far out of thousands before it (they dismissed 31 because they did not provide medical records in a timely fashion.
Yes because we're not pussys. It's a jab. Will it help them? maybe, maybe not but we also gave them about 5 other vaccines like normal intelligent people.