@BoredZelda
Children will tragically die of complications but it’s statistically so rare.
This argument always baffles me. If that statistic is your child, would you be comforted that their death was statistically rare, when there was something you could have done to reduce even that minor risk?
Surely you would look at the risk of your child dying from Covid v the risk of your child dying from the vaccine. More children have died from Covid in England, than have died from the vaccine worldwide.
I was first faced with the “statistically” argument when it came to chicken pox. Would I deliberately try and expose my daughter to chicken pox to get it over with at a time that suited me, and when she was young enough, or would I try to protect her. She eventually caught it at nursery when she was 3 and she was really, really ill with it, resulting in a hospital stay. If I had done that to her I would have felt incredibly bad no matter how statistically low the chances of that happening were. As it was, I discovered later we could have had her vaccinated privately and I felt like a failure as a mother because I didn’t know that was possible.
It shouldn’t baffle you, because until a few weeks ago, it wasn’t deemed appropriate to give children a vaccine that was ultimately not to protect them.
Do you honestly think that if it affected everyone of every age, the same same way as it affects children, that there would be a vaccine??!! There absolutely wouldn’t. Covid wouldn’t be a word we would even know.
As it’s been pointed out already, any child could die of any virus, flu, chicken pox etc but we don’t rush out to vaccinated because it doesn’t affect that vast majority of people.
So let’s not pretend that vaccine is to protect children, it’s to protect the wider society, particularly the vulnerable!
If people are happy to be vaccinated then good for them, but some people would prefer to take caution.
Using your example about regret, a child could have a allergic reaction to a vaccine (not necessarily a covid vaccine - it could be a flu one) and die. So surely the same argument you used, but for the opposite scenario, when the parents regretted it.
To add, both my children have had covid and we’re absolutely fine. One was asymptomatic.
I’m pleased they’ve got a vaccine and I’m pleased children are allowed it now. If parents feel better for giving their child it then great, but thankfully parents are allowed to weigh up the pros and cons and done decide they want to wait and see and there’s nothing wrong with that approach under the circumstances, given the chance of dying from covid is about 1 in a million. Another reason it’s taken this long to be offered because it was questioned morally………