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The only reason Covid vaccines for young children are seen as so important is the absurd politicisation. To be fair, they're not harmful on balance - they just
by makomk 5y ago
The only reason Covid vaccines for young children are seen as so important is the absurd politicisation. To be fair, they're not harmful on balance - they just don't seem to have much benefit that justifies them. The UK government actually failed to convince the independent vaccine advisory board here to support them even for over-12s for that reason, and ended up just ignoring their advice and going ahead anyway for essentially political reasons.
- somewhereoutth 5y agoWhat political reason could there be for vaccinating children? (apart from implanting 5G of course)
- makomk 5y agoParts of the media were pushing the idea that the government was incompetent and dragging their feet for not doing it, including I think even the BBC, and there seems to be a reasonably large chunk of parents that think not doing so was massively harming their kids due to wildly wrong estimates of how much risk Covid poses to them. Also, a bit of the usual need to be seen to be doing something on top. Normal boring stuff - no 5G implants or secret kickbacks from big pharma in sight.
- somewhereoutth 5y agoThese are not political reasons for 'pushing' the vaccine. They are reactions to the government being held back (by political/ideological reasons) from pushing the vaccine. Studies have indicated a positive health benefit for children, so let's get on with it. No politics needed to make that judgement.