Why are we boosting kids?

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PaulHoule2• 4 years ago

Because so many adults are refusing to get their first vaccination so the road to herd immunity seems to be through kids. (At least some of them have parents that aren't anti-vax.)

If you've been a parent and had kids in day care or elementary school you've probably lived the way that a respiratory infections explode in classrooms and they bring them home. There was that day I was eating some food my son hadn't finished (which seemed perfectly natural) and there were also some plates with leftover food from horse riders and when I thought of it I was filled with disgust at the thought of these snotty little girls.

The anti-vax movement is really driving the rest of us crazy. If they just gave up on resisting they'd find a whole lot less to resist.

TurkishPoptart3• 4 years ago

But these "vaccines" don't actually provide immunity, unlike previous vaccines, which is why the dictionary entry for vaccine was actually changed. They reduce the severity of symptoms. The best way out of this is herd immunity via the Omicron variant, which causes minor cold symptoms and doesn't kill people (especially not kids).

notch656a• 4 years ago

Anyone who has had kids in school or daycare for the past 2 years and doesn't think their immune system has been repeatedly exposed and assaulted by SARS-CoV-2 is completely out of their mind. My 2 year old spends a good half the year hacking coughing and snotting, it's laughable to think she hasn't already contracted (and her immune system built anti-bodies to), perhaps multiple times, one of the most common viral illnesses of the past two years. If you didn't want your child to acquire some natural immunity, the time for covid vaccination was almost 3 years ago (before the vaccine existed).

felipeqq2• 4 years ago

doesn't kill people

the Omicron variant is less deadly, but it's far from not killing people. There are hundreds of kids dying with the Omicron right now. Should we deny vaccines to these children? The vaccines not only reduce the severity of symptoms, but also decrease the mortality and infection rate. Even if we try herd immunity, vaccines can still be used to save lives.

TurkishPoptart3• 4 years ago

Many of us who are resistant to vaccine mandates and undue coercion are by no means "anti-vax". I am double-vaxxed myself. I simply refuse further doses of this product until safety concerns are rightfully addressed.

Everywhere I go, I'm hit with messaging about how important the "vaccine" is. On the buses, on YouTube, on the Twitter sidebar "fact-checking" doctors who don't toe the party line. Nine or ten months ago, we were told by our President and media elites that vaccination is the way out of the pandemic. Unfortunately, that turned out not to be true. We can point the finger and say we were lied to, or that they were operating off incomplete information, but none of that really matters. What matters is that now, we know a lot more about these "vaccines" (which should REALLY have been called a prophylactic shot) than we did a year ago. The clear and present facts are:

1) Even with mRNA shots, you can catch COVID

2) Even with mRNA shots, you can still spread COVID

3) Even with mRNA shots, you can still die from COVID, however the risk and severity of illness is supposed to be far reduced, though that benefit seems to wane after 4-5 months.

4) Even in a country in which over 90% of the population has had mRNA shots, COVID continues to spread. Why is this? I don't know. But it's clear as day that contrary to what we were told before, vaccination is NOT the path out of the pandemic, nor the path to herd immunity. Omicron is actually the answer. Study the great flu of 1917-1919 - the virus mutated to a far less harmful form, and became endemic. The same will happen with COVID, unless puts on tinfoil hat some fuckery goes on.

Why are we boosting kids?

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