[Tishabet]

Originally Posted by jyl

And now with schools reopening and not much pediatric vaccination, children are getting Covid at a high rate - right now, 22% of new Covid cases are in kids.

Many people seem to think that as you as you get over the acute Covid symptoms, it's all good - hey, you're immune, congrats! - and that it doesn't matter if young kids get Covid - they almost always have mild cases, so who cares? Let's have a Covid sleepover, whee!

I'm thinking there is still a lot we are learning about Covid, and some of it is going to be not-good-at-all. If we walk into a winter Covid surge with Delta, while Covid spreads through schoolkids like disease usually does, can we just look at the death rates staying low, and figure its all fine?

This is exactly what worries me as father to a kid too young to get vaccinated... No worries at all that my kid would get sick and die of covid, but absolutely concerned that my kid would catch it and have long term issue that we haven't even identified yet. Think about the long term virus issues we know about with HPV and cancer, chicken pox and shingles, mumps and sterility, etc.