Parental Consent for Vaccines
From iGeek
Leftists want to eliminate parental consent for children to get COVID vaccine
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Facts[edit | edit source]
(a) We reached herd immunity at around 50% in prisons and on cruise ships -- and those are more confined and interactive than society at large.
Just because Fauci pulls a number like 80% out of his ass, doesn't mean we should believe it. (Historically, viruses collapsed much earlier than thought -- and this one appears to be based on collapsing caseloads)
| The reason we collapse sooner? Basic epedimiology -- it is NOT that you need to reduce the population by 80%, you only need to reduce the interactions between people/clusters by 80%. If 20% of your people are doing 80% of the interactions, the right 20% immunized can give you herd immunity. And since those people are the most likely to catch it quickly, this is why most pandemics seem to peak quicker, but lower, and fade away sooner than expected. |
(b) The vast majority of disease spread is through symptomatic transmission.
Children are mostly asymptomatic, and while few get it, there are even rarer conditions where they pass it (e.g. the functional R0 is far lower in this group in getting it).
| Remember, you're trying to slow transmissions, not cases. You don't need 80% of the population, you need about 50% of transmissions to stop. You not only don't need kids to get to achieve that herd immunity. But you get diminishing returns in vaccinating kids, because they aren't a prime transmission vector. So with case loads collapsing, there's no evidence we need kids to be vaccinated. |
- (c) 30% is the number for initial willingness. That number will change over time if it is safe.
- (d) If kids aren't responsible enough to buy guns, alcohol, drive cars, or get tattoos, or take whatever drugs they want -- then why is this drug an exception? You'd have to show excessive societal need to infringe on parental rights -- and we certainly aren't close to that.
Conclusion[edit | edit source]
So I'm up for letting states decide from a constitutional point of view, I'm also against any moronic state subverting parental rights based on medical ignorance or political motivations over scientific ones.
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