Must be all this fake news[1] I hear is all the rage these days...
[1] https://www.newsweek.com/eighth-child-under-10-dies-covid-19...
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Covid is highly unlikely to be dangerous to kids, as far as we know. This much I can agree with, but we don't know if there are any long-term effects, and we won't until sufficient time has passed for that to be discovered. What if it makes kids under the age of 10 sterile ? (No, I don't think it does either, but it's an example of something you can't tell for a while).
And, however unlikely, with a sufficiently large population of kids being infected, there are some who will pay the ultimate price, it is a potentially lethal disease after all - and that utterly sucks if you're one of those kids' parents; I wonder how they feel, when people say "it's no worse than a mild cold for them", looking at their dead child one last time before burying him/her.
[Novel mRNA vaccines] are highly unlikely to be dangerous to kids, as far as we know. This much I can agree with, but we don't know if there are any long-term effects, and we won't until sufficient time has passed for that to be discovered. What if it makes kids under the age of 10 sterile ? (No, I don't think it does either, but it's an example of something you can't tell for a while).
> And, however unlikely, with a sufficiently large population of kids being infected, there are some who will pay the ultimate price, it is a potentially lethal disease after all - and that utterly sucks if you're one of those kids' parents; I wonder how they feel, when people say "it's no worse than a mild cold for them", looking at their dead child one last time before burying him/her.
COVID is as dangerous as a cold for children. That is a fact. Children die of the cold and flu every year. That also sucks for the parents of those children as well. What's the point you're trying to make? Are you advocating for a zero risk society?
Covid has killed millions of people, and even when it doesn't kill, it can engender a long-term disability which massively reduces quality of life. Covid is a pathogen.
Are you seriously trying to equate these two ? Really ?
Personally I'm twice vaccinated with Pfizer. I think mRNA vaccines are a great innovation, but I'm 35 so their risk (and benefit) to me is negligible. I'd be much more cautious if I were responsible for giving it to children though.
I'm being serious, this is a culture-wide powder keg ready to explode!