Originally Posted by
flightmedic01
Just to keep a level playing field here, remember that 93% of the people who died with COVID were over the age of 55. Also, only 0.2% were 25 or younger. Basically, if you are under the age of 18 y/o, your risk is of succumbing to COVID is essentially zero. My opinion is if there is no risk to covid for my child, then there is no reason to subject him/her to this vaccine that, as you say, does have a risk.
I don’t disagree with any of that. It’s completely reasonable and I don’t think anyone needs to be worried about kids and teens at all.
I am also happy for people to decide what’s best for them. No issues with that either.
but saying that any potential risk from the vaccine is greater than the disease itself is only true for a subset of the population. And a substantial subset of that population isn’t even eligible yet. So the data we have right now on risk reward are somewhat aligned with risk segments. I guess it depends on what age you draw the line.