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Originally Posted by
nightmarefish
Just curious, does Ben get all the other vaccines that are required to go to school? Do you feel like you're being forced to get him those vaccines?
We already went over this.
All of these other vaccines have been around for a long time, and their risk profile is well known. So I don't feel bothered by the requirement to get them.
The COVID vaccine is very new and the safety testing was (understandably) rushed. The government should not be telling me that I am REQUIRED to inject this into my son's body when:
1) He's extremely unlikely to experience a bad outcome from COVID
2) There are no COVID outbreaks at schools in the state (the kids aren't transmitting, it seems)
3) The long term safety profile is unknown
Kids should be the LAST to be mandated for COVID vaccines, not the first. There is no justification to where senior citizens -- who are both highly vulnerable to death AND known to be transmitting it -- aren't forced to get vaccinated, yet little children must do it.
"We give them other vaccines anyway, so what's one more?" isn't a good argument here.