Vaccinating Kids Over 12.

[westcountryvillain]

Great post Al - as a pharmacist, Covid vaccinator and parent of 2 ****agers myself I am not advocating for them to be jabbed. On the basis that it doesn't prevent infection or transmission to others who if vulnerable are over 90% likely to be jabbed so are already protected.

The Covid risk to the very young is vanishingly low, but their bodies are very different to the rest of us and the emerging evidence of side effects with the vaccines means I cannot as a health professional, let alone as a parent, support it - there is no benefit, that's why the JCVI don't support it but left the door open for Chief Medical Officers to "consider" the wider societal issue of disruption to education so "on balance" they are for it. Why?? The uptake of the vaccine amongst adults is beyond the wildest expectations of Whitehall so any of them who work in schools are protected - the remaining doses would be better diverted to those countries in greater need. We are now seeing soundbytes such as being "3 times less/more likely to......" if jabbed - well 3 times a tiny risk is an even tinier risk. The long term effects are not known so why should the young be put in a situation where they are made to feel they are part of the problem?

I'm incandescent at how the science is used when it suits and discarded when it doesn't, the fear that has been spread as though this virus is a threat to the human race - it clearly isn't. We should now stop antigen testing and move to antibody testing to more accurately model how much the entire population is immune but that would reduce the reliance on big Pharma eh.

[baggieal]

Great post Al - as a pharmacist, Covid vaccinator and parent of 2 ****agers myself I am not advocating for them to be jabbed. On the basis that it doesn't prevent infection or transmission to others who if vulnerable are over 90% likely to be jabbed so are already protected.

The Covid risk to the very young is vanishingly low, but their bodies are very different to the rest of us and the emerging evidence of side effects with the vaccines means I cannot as a health professional, let alone as a parent, support it - there is no benefit, that's why the JCVI don't support it but left the door open for Chief Medical Officers to "consider" the wider societal issue of disruption to education so "on balance" they are for it. Why?? The uptake of the vaccine amongst adults is beyond the wildest expectations of Whitehall so any of them who work in schools are protected - the remaining doses would be better diverted to those countries in greater need. We are now seeing soundbytes such as being "3 times less/more likely to......" if jabbed - well 3 times a tiny risk is an even tinier risk. The long term effects are not known so why should the young be put in a situation where they are made to feel they are part of the problem?

I'm incandescent at how the science is used when it suits and discarded when it doesn't, the fear that has been spread as though this virus is a threat to the human race - it clearly isn't. We should now stop antigen testing and move to antibody testing to more accurately model how much the entire population is immune but that would reduce the reliance on big Pharma eh.

Totally agree! I have a very healthy child in that age bracket so chances are if she caught it she would hardly notice.
Doubtful whether she will have the vaccine and her choice as a very bright child. The government are talking about a possible surge again but hey - night clubs are at full throttle and football crowds are full of ****s of which many have decided not to take it.

The Oxford was firstly given to ****agers but then stopped as it was deemed more risks and girls could be prone to fertility problems. So the ones who had it must be worrying! As a vulnerable individual now - I would only take the booster if it was the same vaccine like they are doing so in the USA.

I will take my chances now and to be honest even though I am double jabbed, I still so respect those who won't have it done. It's an individual decision which needs to be respected. I know educated parents who refuse for their kids to have the MMR because of the links to autism and I get that too!