For most people over 20ish or so, it is a no brainer that the risks of COVID are many tmies more dangerous than any possible risks of the vaccine, and choosing to not get vaccinated is the unequivocal wrong choice.
I don't know that you can necessarily say that is true for children. I think you can say that the vaccine's are very safe, and getting your child vaccinated is an important tool in stopping the spread. But, I don't necessary think it is a slam dunk that the risks of COVID for a healthy child are multiple times any possible vaccine risk. It's overwhelmingly likely that it is the better choice to get your kids vaccinated, but I don't think it is a slam dunk 100% case for an individual's child's health risk.
The frustrating part is that it wouldn't probably even be necessary to get kids vaccinated if all adult's did. But since they won't, then we need the kids numbers to boost our chances of herd immunity and being able to move on.
I got my kids (13&15) vaccinated on the first day available. But, I'm not going to be too judgmental on those that don't. I don't have any tolerance for the parents telling everyone else that they are killing their kids by getting them vaccinated, especially when they themselves didn't get vaccinated and are the reason that the kids need to get it.
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