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I wish this was true. Most Europe is still under various lockdown restrictions, even though in a lot of countries, there's been enough vaccine for everyone (who wanted) to get vaccinated by now.

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Children under 12 are a major group that drop vaccination percentages down significantly everywhere. The hope is that once this age group can also be vaccinated, we can find the new normal and let people individually hedge their own bets.

Why vaccinate children under 12? The only good reason I can see is if they have some sort of known health condition. Is there any other reasons why you would do this?

The same reason to vaccinate everyone else: to minimize the opportunity for a more virulent strain to emerge - one against which current vaccines are ineffective.

I think you have that backwards:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/leaky-vaccines...

Selection pressures and non sterilizing vaccines are what causes more virulent strains to emerge.

But covid mutates and replicates in people whether they're vaccinated or not?

Why not vaccinate kids for every other endemic virus under the sun then?

We should if that virus kills people at a high rate like COVID!

Given the flu kills more kids than covid, we should probably require them to get that vaccine. Given more kids drown than die of covid, we should probably restrict their access to water. Given more kids die in fires, we should keep them out of structures made of wood. Given more die in auto accidents, they shouldn’t be allowed in cars.

> > We should if that virus kills people at a high rate like COVID!

> Given the flu kills more kids than covid

Emphasis mine.

When did adults become so afraid of kids? :D

... we do?

Given that viruses respond to evolutionary pressure such as vaccines, this seems like a strange position.

Vaccinating the ~50 million kids of the US would make a 1% dent in the ~5 billion unvaccinated worldwide.

That won’t really make much of a difference in new strains emerging.

https://fortune.com/2021/07/14/covid-vaccine-tracker-update-...

Lower risk of heart muscle infection.

The "new normal" is here. The boot on the masked human face has arrived.

This.

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