I’m honestly for it and I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. Most kids will still follow what their parents say, and the difference would probably be only seen in cases where the parents are anti-vaccine and the child feels that they know better or wants the vaccine for x or y reasons - which again, is probably fine assuming the risks are low and the child understands what they are. I really don’t think parents should be able to their kids just because they hold certain beliefs
If the kid chooses to agree with their parents/agrees with them then at least they have some sort of choice there
I recently found out that some of my extended relatives have refused to vaccinate their child (I think they’re a newborn or a toddler) at all. I honestly hope that their child is given the opportunity to get vaccines by an age where they understand their situation and may feel different to their parents without needing parental consent, hopefully before they’re 16 or 18. Obviously covid may not be as dangerous as other viruses but eh
There's a massive difference here between the standard childhood vaccinations and the covid vaccine.
All mine have had their normal vaccines. At the appointment with all 3 of them I was told every single risk of vaccination and not vaccinating, and at no point did I ever feel that I didn't have an informed choice. I 100% knew the risks.
If I didn't agree with any kind of vaccine, I do agree that when a child is legally an adult that they should get to choose what they want in their body.
The way the covid vaccine is being sold to kids is manipulative. They're being told they're completely safe and that if they don't get it then they're risking everyone else's lives.
All the adverse side effects are being played down, and like it or not we still have no long term data on what is a completely new medicine.
At 12 all I wanted to do was play out with my friends, listen to my favourite boy band and watch tele. I wasn't thinking about my future, if I wanted a family and my responsibility towards anyone - as it should be for any child.
It's not fair that after a year of being told that by getting the vaccine protected you, that it had made older people safe, that kids have a slim to none chance of getting seriously ill and that the risk of covid outweighs the risk of vaccinating against it.
That seems to have been lost along the way though.
It's our job as grown ups to protect the young, it's our job to weigh up risk and its our job to take risk for them.
If you want your child to have the vaccine then consent, but thats where its needs to end. If you don't consent then that needs to be respected.
Science says that even if we vaccinated every single person on the plant (kids included) that we wouldn't get rid of covid and hospital cases, so to risk serous side effects and possible long term damage on minors is a science experiment too far.
If when they get to 16/17 and they want it then let them choose, but right now adults have to be respected in their choice fir their child - just like with any other highly communicable disease (which covid isn't)
his mum is very vulnerable and hospitalised for 3 months with pneumonia just before covid was around so I've said we'd do one