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> If you are vaccinated, you are done with the pandemic. Morally, ethically, and practically. You should be allowed to return to actual, pre-pandemic normal. En
by mcphage 5y ago
> If you are vaccinated, you are done with the pandemic. Morally, ethically, and practically. You should be allowed to return to actual, pre-pandemic normal. End of story.
What if you have children who are not yet eligible for the vaccine?
- coryrc 5y agoChildren are not any more at risk from covid than the flu (even less, I believe) yet never before did we have these restrictions.
- yreg 5y agoHow do you know the long term effects?
- Method-X 5y agoI’m vaccinated. How do you know the long term effects of mRNA vaccines?
- yreg 5y agoThe Bayesian probability leans heavily toward the vaccine being safe and the virus dangerous. From what we are seeing the vaccine side effects are similar but considerably milder and short term, the virus sometimes has long term negative effects (lung capacity, fatigue, weakness, inability to concentrate…)
- coryrc 5y agoWe have a long history with coronaviruses. I doubt you worried about any of the others before.
- ctoth 5y agoThen you look at the data and see that: "Covid-19 has killed 280 children under 18 from January through September 2021, the time span in which the alpha and delta variants were active. Flu and pneumonia, heart disease, drowning, guns, and motor vehicles were all deadlier to children during the same time periods annually from 2015 to 2019 (the latest years with available data)[0]." [0]: https://www.vox.com/22699019/covid-19-children-kids-risk-hospitalization-death https://www.vox.com/22699019/covid-19-children-kids-risk-hos...
- lancesells 5y agoWhile I agree that it seems children are very low risk you have to remember they are partly lower because of the precautions taken(lockdowns, mandates, vaccines, masks, fear, etc). We don't know the "normal" death rate for Covid just yet.
- mcphage 5y agoHow many people have children infected, though? It doesn’t get to them and stop. Kids are very good at spreading germs.
- Method-X 5y agoCOVID is at most as dangerous as a normal cold for kids. This is a fact. It’s not even controversial.
- mcphage 5y agoChildren are good at infecting others, for whom it may not be so harmless.
- Method-X 5y agoIf an at-risk adult doesn't want to get vaccinated at this point, it's on them. Enough with this lunatic safetyism already.
- mcphage 5y agoIf you made a list off the lunatic safetyism that kids have to put up with these days, I don’t think wearing masks would even make the short list. There’s a lot.