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Agree on this, there is a wide divergence among those who are a bit sceptical of vaccines. Most people have a high trust in vaccines as they should, but recent developments have made more people sceptical.

The last round of vaccination before covid was for the swine flu where one of the vaccines showed a lot more adverse effects than the others (7x) https://www.contagionlive.com/view/high-rates-of-adverse-eve... Also a lot of people became sceptical when they tried to get the children vaccinated for covid even though there were almost no adverse effects on children from the natural infection. It is possible to be sceptical of one vaccine and not all vaccines.

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"Also a lot of people became sceptical when they tried to get the children vaccinated for covid even though there were almost no adverse effects on children from the natural infection."

To prevent the spread. That's why.

And its not even the only reason. roughly half the kids end up asymptomatic but the other half still end up sick. Normally it's not too bad for them, but a small number of them do end up in hospitals, in ICU, or on a ventilator. What parent wants to unnecessarily increase the risk of that for their children? Some kids even end up with long covid, and a (thankfully) very small number end up dead. In the end, vaccines for kids was a great idea and with everything we know now they continue to be recommended.

> To prevent the spread. That's why.

Based on what evidence?

Isn't it now generally accepted that it doesn't prevent infection or spread and that the trials didn't study either of these variables?

The person I replied to claimed people were hesitant to get the vaccine because it was promoted for children without reason. That was a lie. There was a reason, whether you believe it doesn't matter

That it would prevent spread was itself a lie. That came out of nowhere in the first few months of 2021, when up until that point we knew they hadn't tested for it.

The propaganda worked and that got memory holed hard, until some months ago when people were surprised to learn the testing didn't include infection/transmission.

So some of us knew the whole time, and the push to vaccinate children was all sorts of weird.

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