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Both my kids (and the entire family) got COVID before the kids' vaccine was available late 2021. I really didn't think that it was necessary for my kids to get the vaccine given the fact they already had been infected, but the school at the time insisted. I was getting ready to join some other parents to try to fight it but then decided to listen to my wife and just go with the flow.

Now given everything we know, the COVID vaccine truly was unnecessary. I crumpled to peer pressure and got my kids injected with a drug that was completely unnecessary, even though I knew scientifically what was being said made absolutely no sense at all.

I think like many other parents who felt lied to, the next time big pharm tries to convince me that my kids or I need some sort of medication, I will react much much more skeptically and stick to my guns unless it actually passes my smell test fully.

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The COVID vaccine showed a positive impact in terms of disease severity and long term impacts.

Patients who experience long-term COVID impacts often demonstrate a range of major problems including lowered IQ, brain fog, increased risk of ischemic events, etc.

In my opinion you were absolutely correct to vaccinate your children, just as parents of boys should vaccinate them against HPV; not only for their safety, but for the safety of their partners.

> The COVID vaccine showed a positive impact in terms of disease severity and long term impacts.

We are talking about the children's vaccine.

The COVID vaccine showed no efficacy for children, on top of the already practically-nil symptoms that COVID itself had on children.

> The COVID vaccine showed no efficacy for children

This is false. Please don’t spread misinformation here. Finally, please consider the possibility that your reasoning skills are not sufficient for the conclusions you’re making.

You are 100% wrong. There is no dispute that the Covid vaccine had no efficacy for children. The data is irrefutable and well documented.

There appears to be quite a bit of dispute.

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2024/january...

> Children and adolescents who received one of the main COVID-19 vaccines were significantly protected from the illness and showed no increased signs of cardiac complications compared to young people who were not vaccinated, according to a new real-world study led by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). When the Delta variant rose to prominence, the study showed that vaccinated young people were 98 percent less likely to be infected than their unvaccinated peers, and data indicated that the vaccine’s effectiveness decline slightly when the Omicron variant became dominant. The paper was published today in Annals of Internal Medicine.

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