by Guest9999 » Sat Sep 18, 2021 3:00 am
(Homeopathic doses? Like a VERY dry martini, don't actually put in vermouth, just store the bottle next to the gin.)
Some kid vax relevant variables:
- relative safety for vaccinated individuals: risks from adverse vaccine reactions, vs risks from Covid itself;
- relative safety for other members of society: likelihood of being a Covid disease vector: statistically, all vaccines 'noticeably' reduce probability of passing disease on, vs. statistically (meaning, again, we can't say for any particular individual) being under 7 or 8 years old 'quite greatly' reduces probability of passing disease on.
Yes, vaxed kids will pass it on even less than unvaxed, but even with Delta it seems (Mu?) unvaxed small kids are only a very minor Covid-19 vector/reservoir. I couldn't say if Sinovac for small kids is more dangerous than Sinovac for teens or adults, as a wild guess, I'd suspect not, but the calculation IS changed by unvaxed kids only rarely passing it on.
New variants or new information may change my mind, but I see little reason to rush vaccinations of very small kids. The vaccine hesitant 12-60 year-olds, especially very socially active 18-40 year olds (to pick some ages from the air), seem like the best place to focus.
In Seattle, the Government gave me $50 in prepaid Safeway cards. In Cambodia, employers could buy 6 beer for each adult vax holdout IF they get 2 free shots. Many of the hesitant don't care greatly, they just don't see the point. For them, a few cold ones might tip the balance.
Of course, that won't work in Kompong Som, where beer sales are still prohibited.
(Homeopathic doses? Like a VERY dry martini, don't actually put in vermouth, just store the bottle next to the gin.)
Some kid vax relevant variables:
- relative safety for vaccinated individuals: risks from adverse vaccine reactions, vs risks from Covid itself;
- relative safety for other members of society: likelihood of being a Covid disease vector: statistically, all vaccines 'noticeably' reduce probability of passing disease on, vs. statistically (meaning, again, we can't say for any particular individual) being under 7 or 8 years old 'quite greatly' reduces probability of passing disease on.
Yes, vaxed kids will pass it on even less than unvaxed, but even with Delta it seems (Mu?) unvaxed small kids are only a very minor Covid-19 vector/reservoir. I couldn't say if Sinovac for small kids is more dangerous than Sinovac for teens or adults, as a wild guess, I'd suspect not, but the calculation IS changed by unvaxed kids only rarely passing it on.
New variants or new information may change my mind, but I see little reason to rush vaccinations of very small kids. The vaccine hesitant 12-60 year-olds, especially very socially active 18-40 year olds (to pick some ages from the air), seem like the best place to focus.
In Seattle, the Government gave me $50 in prepaid Safeway cards. In Cambodia, employers could buy 6 beer for each adult vax holdout IF they get 2 free shots. Many of the hesitant don't care greatly, they just don't see the point. For them, a few cold ones might tip the balance.
Of course, that won't work in Kompong Som, where beer sales are still prohibited.