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Forcing children (or anyone really) to undergo a medical procedure for the benefit of other people is evil.

scrollaway 5y ago
What the fuck? You're aware that we vaccinate children for a lot of things, right? It's not evil, it's common sense. COVID may be the first pandemic you've lived through/remembered, but it's not the first pandemic, and there are far more dangerous diseases out there we don't want coming back. I was vaccinated as a child of things i am still immune to today.
- anoncake 5y ago
  > You're aware that we vaccinate children for a lot of things, right? Yes. So they don't get sick, i.e. it's for their own benefit.
  - DanBC 5y ago
    We also vaccinate them so they don't infect people who can't be vaccinated.
    - anoncake 5y ago
      If their own health wouldn't justify a vaccination, we should stop that. They can still consent to get vaccinated out of altruism when they're adult.
      - cout 5y ago
        Insurance might not cover some vaccinations for an adult. I know for certain this is the case for HPV; it may also be true for others.
      - scrollaway 5y ago
        Thankfully, you don't make health policy. Stay away from legislation.
DanBC 5y ago
Children grow into adults. We're protecting those future adults.
- anoncake 5y ago
  Against what, a pandemic that's over by then? For more than a year, children's interests have been largely ignored, their well-being and education sacrificed for the sake of scared adults. Now we start vaccinating them, which doesn't actually benefit them but does benefit aforementioned adults, to protect them just in case they catch Covid after the pandemic is over, but not until they're old enough that this is actually a problem? Because they're suddenly that important to us? I don't buy it.
  - DanBC 5y ago
    What makes you think the pandemic is over? New variants are still emerging, and some of them are pretty worrying. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/986433/13_May_2021_Risk_assessment_for_SARS-CoV-2_variant_VOC-21APR-02__B.1.617.2__20210513_v01.00.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
    - anoncake 5y ago
      You didn't even finish reading my first sentence.

What the fuck? You're aware that we vaccinate children for a lot of things, right? It's not evil, it's common sense. COVID may be the first pandemic you've lived through/remembered, but it's not the first pandemic, and there are far more dangerous diseases out there we don't want coming back. I was vaccinated as a child of things i am still immune to today.

anoncake 5y ago
> You're aware that we vaccinate children for a lot of things, right? Yes. So they don't get sick, i.e. it's for their own benefit.
- DanBC 5y ago
  We also vaccinate them so they don't infect people who can't be vaccinated.
  - anoncake 5y ago
    If their own health wouldn't justify a vaccination, we should stop that. They can still consent to get vaccinated out of altruism when they're adult.
    - cout 5y ago
      Insurance might not cover some vaccinations for an adult. I know for certain this is the case for HPV; it may also be true for others.
    - scrollaway 5y ago
      Thankfully, you don't make health policy. Stay away from legislation.

DanBC 5y ago

Children grow into adults. We're protecting those future adults.

anoncake 5y ago
Against what, a pandemic that's over by then? For more than a year, children's interests have been largely ignored, their well-being and education sacrificed for the sake of scared adults. Now we start vaccinating them, which doesn't actually benefit them but does benefit aforementioned adults, to protect them just in case they catch Covid after the pandemic is over, but not until they're old enough that this is actually a problem? Because they're suddenly that important to us? I don't buy it.
- DanBC 5y ago
  What makes you think the pandemic is over? New variants are still emerging, and some of them are pretty worrying. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/986433/13_May_2021_Risk_assessment_for_SARS-CoV-2_variant_VOC-21APR-02__B.1.617.2__20210513_v01.00.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
  - anoncake 5y ago
    You didn't even finish reading my first sentence.