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Covid vaccine just removed from recommendation for healthy children

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Anonymous 76w

To this day I’ve never gotten one. Idk how some people are on like their third or fourth booster by now. Leave that shit in the past, please. I’ve always gotten my shots all throughout my life and will continue to do so but when it came to that one I was like “Nah”. Seemed rushed from the get-go.

Anonymous 76w

Good

Anonymous 76w

Tbh vaccines for stuff like covid and the flu I’m skeptical about. Not that I think they’re dangerous, but just question their efficacy. It’d get yearly flu shots as a kid, but got the flu around 50% of the years. Since graduating hs I really only got Covid and the flu once. I get that’s all subject to a ton of biases and external variables, but point is I think for common diseases vaccines really only boost your odds of missing it (if at all), whereas for deadly diseases like measles, pox, etc

Anonymous

#1 76w

We def need it. I personally think we need mandatory TB vaccines. Most of the rest of the world requires them, but in the US we’ve decided that waiting until people get it to deal with it was a better allocation of resources than providing general population protection

Anonymous

#2 76w

I haven’t either

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OP 76w

I 100% believe in vaccinations and I understand their importance in eradicating diseases. But it didn’t sit well with me whenever the vaccines themselves weren’t given time to develop a robust safety profile before seeing widespread administration to the general public.

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#2 76w

It wasn't rushed you had the entire world working together on the vaccine as well as a bunch of red tape getting pushed out of the way

Anonymous

#2 76w

Yeah I totally agree

Anonymous 76w

Does modern healthcare and medicine have nothing to do with it?

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#5 76w

You do realize that what you see as so-called “red tape” getting pushed out of the way may be seen by somebody else as neccesary precautions enacted in order to prevent people from suffering potentially harmful adverse reactions from things, right?

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Anonymous 76w

Sure I get all that. I think you’re underestimating my knowledge in all of this though, I’m really just questioning where the value lies. Like I’m well aware how bad the Spanish flu was, and how bad H1N1 (swine flu) was. For particularly bad flu seasons (each season has different new strains that they *predict* will be the main spreader that year. If the make a vaccine for the wrong one they actually do nothing). Whereas for TB, we really just have to be immunized when we’re young then we’re

Anonymous 76w

Done with those vaccines. I think in any given year, Americans are better off having had a TB vaccine as a kid than getting a new yearly flu shot. Again tho, if it’s a particularly severe strain, then generalized immunizations would make more sense

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Anonymous 76w

Yes yes I know, I’m saying this for strains that legitimately are as benign as a cold. That’s not every year, but for those years it is benign I don’t necessarily think we *need* them

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Anonymous 76w

I think that should change then. Mandatory for public school children in bad years, optional in not bad. Then again, it probably was already a struggle just to get the public to accept yearly optional shots in the first place

Anonymous

#2 75w

But the vaccine is absolutely safe