re: Government buys 65 million two shot doses from Pfizer….for children

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The main reason being that even though the risk of Covid to her is pretty low, the risk from the vaccine is orders of magnitude lower.

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What? Did you suddenly go retarded or is this sarcasm? You must be copy pasting Storm2k if you really believe this.

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pretty low

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as in almost non existent? congrats on virtue signaling through your healthy child. weird flex

my guess is that Pfizer is getting paid 45 billion dollars for this purchase. Anybody got a better guess?

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But the risk from the vax is even lower than getting Covid. So why wouldnt I take the safer option for her?

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again, you likely could avoid both risk by doing nothing considering the plummeting COVID metrics and vaccination rates.

and even if she does catch it, her odds of being hospitalized or dying are less than zero. In fact it’s several 0’s stuck behind the decimal place in 0.0%.


Which you know, so this is clearly some point your using your child to make to emphasize your stance that the vaccine side effects are a less likely risk than COVID on a LSU Sports forum board? or maybe IRL? Which no one in this thread, certainly not me, is arguing.

if not virtue signaling, what would you prefer to call it?

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But the risk from the vax is even lower than getting Covid. So why wouldnt I take the safer option for her?

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Tell me what the 5 year and 10 year potential side effects of the vaccine are? Oh, we don't know. Tell me how it affects growth and going through puberty? Oh, don't know. Why do people not understand that we don't know a lot about potential effects? I hope there are none, ever, but for now we just don't know, so my kids won't get anywhere near this thing. It's not necessary. One already had it (kind of had a headache, never fever), the rest of us didn't even get it despite not trying too hard to not. Just live healthy (I say as I sip bourbon).

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The risk to children is miniscule

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But we don’t really know this.

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The FDA conducted a rigorous evaluation of the of post-authorization safety surveillance data pertaining to myocarditis and pericarditis following administration of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine and determined that the data demonstrate increased risks, particularly within the seven days following the second dose. The observed risk is higher among males under 40 years of age compared to females and older males. The observed risk is highest in males 12 through 17 years of age. Available data from short-term follow-up suggest that most individuals have had resolution of symptoms. However, some individuals required intensive care support Information is not yet available about potential long-term health outcomes. 

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Parents should spend a lot of time reading the FDA documents before vaccinating their children. After all, the immune system is an intricate one and altering it with a vaccine should not be done unless truly warranted.

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my guess is that Pfizer is getting paid 45 billion dollars for this purchase. Anybody got a better guess?

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I little under $1.3 billion for 65 million doses of Pfizer.

I won’t vaccinate my son until my pastor tells me it’s safe to do so.

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Yes we do. The risk from the vaccine outweighs the risk of the virus for kids.

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Just on a statistical level that depends on which data set you use and if you select for age and gender. Most people feel not doing something is the de facto safer option in almost every situation barring some other inputs.

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Tell me what the 5 year and 10 year potential side effects of the vaccine are?

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We are equally in the dark about COVID infections.


As for COVID vaccine mandates for children, I think they are ridiculous. This is primarily because I think the risk/benefit analysis is rather similar for both individually and there is very little communal benefit.


The biggest potential unintended consequence as a result of mandates for any age is that if we ever find ourselves in a much worse pandemic there will be a significant number of people who will be much more likely to refuse any measures designed to prevent the spread of infection.