Have you defended the claim that child vaccinations are helpful? I’ve seen two concerns:
Like chickenpox, covid is much more dangerous as an adult. It may be safer for kids to be infected as kids, rather than delaying infection with vaccination until adulthood.
The risk of severe effect to kids is so low that the risks of the vaccine are no longer trivial by comparison.
This requires (A) Covid-19 will remain a serious threat long enough for (B) kids to grow up while Covid-19 is still in a form where ‘natural immunity’ would remain importantly helpful but (C) the vaccine held up long enough that they didn’t get infected, if they do get infected they’re better off being vaccinated first and (D) the vaccine protection then after that goes away. That seems like an insane parlay.
The risks of the vaccine remain trivial by comparison even for children.
The social benefits of child vaccinations, including letting people act less crazy both in general and around this particular child, are large.
Have you defended the claim that child vaccinations are helpful? I’ve seen two concerns:
Like chickenpox, covid is much more dangerous as an adult. It may be safer for kids to be infected as kids, rather than delaying infection with vaccination until adulthood.
The risk of severe effect to kids is so low that the risks of the vaccine are no longer trivial by comparison.
Would like to know your thoughts.
This requires (A) Covid-19 will remain a serious threat long enough for (B) kids to grow up while Covid-19 is still in a form where ‘natural immunity’ would remain importantly helpful but (C) the vaccine held up long enough that they didn’t get infected, if they do get infected they’re better off being vaccinated first and (D) the vaccine protection then after that goes away. That seems like an insane parlay.
The risks of the vaccine remain trivial by comparison even for children.
The social benefits of child vaccinations, including letting people act less crazy both in general and around this particular child, are large.